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  • The Famine Ships

    The Irish Exodus to America

    by Edward Laxton ...
    A "fascinating" account of the experiences of the Irish emigrants who fled a catastrophic crop failure and built new lives across the Atlantic ( Library Journal).Between 1846 and 1851, more than one million people—the potato famine emigrants—sailed from Ireland to America. The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Famine Ships

    The Irish Exodus to America

    by Edward Laxton ...
    'A splendid book, written in a fresh and accessible way, which will grip anyone with the most superficial interest in the Famine years'IRISH TIMES'An engrossing and revelatory book' DAILY MAIL'Fascinating . . . finally draws attention to the people and the ships that defined a moment in Irish and American history' LIBRARY JOURNAL________________________________________________________________... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Between the Stepping Stones

    Great-Aunt Chris had begun Helens story, but her death left Helen alone to scribble and scratch out a life now deprived of her deepest friend, whose greatest gift to Helen was a garden, a magical moonlit dance of crystal and gold and silver faeries. The stories of three girls verging on the precipice of womanhood intertwine. Each girl is a victim to brutality, and each was somehow dragged down ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Last Seen

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  • Raiders, Rulers, and Traders

    The Horse and the Rise of Empires

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  • Left for Dead

    Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

    The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812—a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival.In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin—“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)—tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, ... Read more

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  • The Cause

    The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

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  • Redeem a Nation

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  • Darkology

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    How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

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