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  • The Civil War on the Mississippi

    Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River

    The naval historian presents a "well-written, fast-paced" study of Civil War riverine combat based on the personal accounts of officers and sailors (Civil War News).As one of the most important transportation systems in the country, the Mississippi River became a strategically vital asset to both sides of the Civil War. The Confederacy relied on the river for cotton exportation as well as food and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peppermints in the Parlor

    Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner, and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Feminist Perspectives on the Body

    by Barbara Brook ...
    Series series Feminist Perspectives
    Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and ... Read more

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  • G.I. Nightingales

    The Army Nurse Corps in World War II

    Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • With Utmost Spirit

    Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945

    Nineteen months before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, AUS, Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham, RN, Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN, and others, the Allies kept pressure on the Axis by attacking what Winston Churchill dubbed "the soft ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Secret in St. Something

    Illustrated by Richard Williams ...
    One flight up the narrow, steep stairs, Robin finds himself swallowed up by the darkness, terrified and hating the thought of the misery and fear his knock will bring to the wretched families who huddle behind every door in the building.Thus begins the story set in a grim tenement district of New York City before the turn of the twentieth century. It is there that Robin, once protected by a loving ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Miss Switch Online

    If you think nothing much is going on when Rupert P. Brown III begins sixth grade at Pepperdine Elementary School, you'd be dead wrong. Consider the following: a new teacher with the unlikely name of Miss Blossom; a new principal who has all the girls swooning; a talking bird who thinks he's a math whiz; a computer that goes berserk and produces a Web site called computowitch.com that not only ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Bluejackets and Contrabands

    African Americans and the Union Navy

    One of the lesser-known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast. From the beginning of the war, many African American refugees sought avenues of escape to the North. Due to their sheer numbers, those who reached Union forces presented a problem for the military. Fortunately, the First Confiscation Act of 1861 permitted the ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Miss Switch to the Rescue

    Narrated by Jeff Woodman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 16 min

    As they begin fifth grade, Rupert and Amelia discover that their teacher, Miss Switch, is a witch. Using his scientific mind, Rupert helps her solve a spooky dilemma. In return, the witch teaches Rupert and Amelia some magic. But soon Miss Switch disappears, and another teacher takes her place. One night that winter, a dark figure delivers a strange bottle to the children. Scientific curiosity ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Claudia and Duffy

    Narrated by Christina Moore ...
    Series series Claudia

    Unabridged

    4 hours 14 min

    All the troubles in sixth-grader Claudia Harper's life seem to start with her fourth-grade friend Dunford Wylie Booth V. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Miss Switch Online

    Narrated by Jeff Woodman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 38 min

    Rupert P. Brown's biggest worry about sixth grade is it might be well, a little bit dull. After all, how can a fellow be expected to top a fifth grade year in which his best friend was kidnapped, and he found out his best teacher ever was a real, honest-to-goodness witch? But when Rupert types the word "computowitch" in an e-mail message, his screen goes all green, and then his parakeet starts ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Claudia

    Narrated by Christina Moore ...
    Series series Claudia

    Unabridged

    4 hours 25 min

    Eleven-year-old Claudia's parents don't think she should still be wearing torn blue jeans and a boy's shirt and playing army with her friend, nine-year-old Duffy. So when her old best friend, Janice, moves back to town, Claudia's parents hope the two girls will pick right up where they left off. But rather than starting sixth grade as best friends again, Claudia and Janice soon become worst ... Read more

    $7.99 USD