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  • The Peddler Spy; or, Dutchmen and Yankees A Tale of the Capture of Good Hope

    by J. W. DeForest ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Few writers of sea stories throw around the personages of his narratives so much that is novel in character as this pleasing author. His plot and incidents, too, are widely out of the "beaten path"—he always gives us something new. In this admirable production we have such a commingling of the elements of parental affection and devotion, of singular and deeply stirring adventure, of the tenderness ... Read more

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  • First Time Under Fire

    by J W DeForest ...
    After training for what seemed forever the twelfth Connecticut finally gets a chance to fight in the  Lafourche Interieur of Mississippi. ... Read more

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  • Mark Twain - Mississippi Writings

    Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson

    by Mark Twain, Golden Deer Classics ...
    CONTENTS: - Tom Sawyer - Life on the Mississippi - Huckleberry Finn - Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the ... Read more

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  • Blake, or the Huts of America

    by Martin R. Delany ...
    Blake; or the Huts of America is a novel by Martin R. Delany that was serially published in the Anglo-African Magazine in 1859 and the Weekly Anglo-African in 1861 and 1862 (it was not published in complete book form until 1970). Delany was born free in 1812 in Charles Town, Virginia (later West Virginia). Giving a panoramic view of slave life in the nineteenth century, Delany's novel tells the ... Read more

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  • Blake; or, The Huts of America

    by Martin R. Delany ...
    An enslaved West Indian man travels the American South searching for his wife and raising a revolt in this classic American alternative history.Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861–1862) is one of the most important African American—and indeed American—works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across ... Read more

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  • The Pioneers

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Series series The Leatherstocking Tales
    MEET NATTY BUMPPOThe first volume in the famous Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, the quintessential American hunter and frontiersman who struggles to defend his cherished freedom. ... Read more

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  • An American Book of Golden Deeds

    by James Baldwin ...
    An American Book of Golden Deeds, by James Baldwin, and published by American Book Company, New York, 1907.Forty four short and inspiring stories of heroism and personal sacrifice made by Americans for the benefit of their community or their country. Most of the subjects of these stories are everyday citizens rather than famous leaders but their noble deeds are worthy of note.James Baldwin (1841 ... Read more

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  • The Dare Boys MEGAPACK ®

    3 Young Adult Novels of the Revolutionary War

    by Stephen Angus Cox ...
    The "Dare Boys" are Dick and Tom Dare, two patriot youths, brothers, "from about three miles over in New Jersey." They get caught up in key episodes of the American Revolutionary War -- and the years after -- interacting with historically important figures along the way. This is a great series for readers interested in U.S. history.Included are:The Dare Boys of 1776The Dare Boys in VirginiaThe ... Read more

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  • Slave Narrative Six Pack

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    The slave narrative is a literary sub-genre that emerged from the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. Some of the earliest memoirs of captivity known in England and the British Isles were written by white Europeans and later Americans captured and sometimes enslaved in North Africa, usually by ... Read more

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  • Thomas Chandler Haliburton: Three Books (Canadian)

    by Thomas Chandler Haliburton ...
    This book collection includes: The Clockmaker, The Attache (both volumes), and Nature and Human Nature. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 August 27, 1865) was a politician, judge, and author in the British Colony of Nova Scotia. He was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada and played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia ... Read more

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  • An Autobiography of Davy Crockett

    Edited by Stephen Brennan ...
    Based in part on Davy Crockett’s own writings, this is the true story about one of America’s most iconic historical figures. From his days as a scout for Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812, his time as a Congressman for the state of Tennessee, and his eventual death at the Alamo, Davy Crockett led a life that was admired and idealized by people all across America, to this very day. Read about ... Read more

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  • Collection of Americana

    by NETLANCERS INC ...
    American expressions of belief, as well as folklore and superstition, that don't fit into any other category.In this collection 8 books are there :-Coffee In The Gourd :- A collection of Texas folklore.The articles reflect the cultural diversity of Texas, including articles on African-American, Tejano, German and Native American folklore.Drums And Shadows:- Coastal Georgia folklore from the 1930s ... Read more

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