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  • Want to be a Plant Whisperer

    The invisible life of house plants

    by Vicky Wright ...
    Discover the secrets all your favourite house plants have been dying to tell you.Have you noticed what makes your plants thrive?As either a keen green-fingered gardener or a first-time owner of a houseplant, this little book shares a fresh glimpse into the natural world and its phenomena right beneath your eyes.How might a plant speak? What are the ways that plants communicate?We know they need ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Women Who Shaped America

    American women have always had the grit and determination to influence others and make important things happen. From working for the young colonies to homesteading on the Great Plains and the Wild West to navigating the hardships and deprivations of Americas Civil War, two world wars, and the Great Depression to the Space Age, women led, followed, or blazed new paths for themselves, their families ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    by Amy Bloom ...
    For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a “sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women” (People)—Eleanor Roosevelt and “first friend” Lorena Hickok.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times • San Francisco Chronicle • New York Public Library • Refinery29 • Real SimpleLorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 193... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Nothing Daunted

    The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

    Series series A Historical Memoir
    From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • America's Women

    400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

    by Gail Collins ...
    Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent work of women's history tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century.In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over four hundred years. As she traces the role of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Peter Taylor: Complete Stories 1938-1959 (LOA #298)

    by Peter Taylor ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Peter Taylor Edition
    For the first time, the complete short stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century American SouthBorn and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally complicated legacies in tales of pure-distilled brilliance. Now, for his centennial year, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • I am Harriet Tubman

    by Brad Meltzer ...
    Illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos ...
    Series series Ordinary People Change the World
    Harriet Tubman's heroic and pivotal role in the fight against slavery is the subject of the fourteenth picture book in this New York Times bestselling biography series.This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, ... Read more

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  • Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

    A Secret History of the Far North

    by Lael Morgan ...
    In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde, that "half world" of prostitutes, dance hall girls, and entertainers who lived on the outskirts of polite society. Meet "Dutch Kate" Wilson, who pioneered many ... Read more

    $14.95 USD

  • Obvious Adams

    Masters of Marketing Secrets: The Story of a Successful Marketer

    Series series Masters of Marketing Secrets
    Have you ever been struck by the painfully obvious?What passes for advertising these days seems to have forgotten what people are actually looking for.But it's right in front of their (and your) nose.The stories in this book were written apparently to tweak the noses of marketing as it existed in the early 1900's – but still has lessons all of use can learn from today.There are good reasons why ... Read more

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  • Dear Santa

    Children's Christmas Letters and Wish Lists, 1870–1920

    Take a heartwarming trip into Christmas history with these children's letters to Santa Claus from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This first-ever collection of children's letters to Santa written between 1870 and 1920 presents more than one hundred charming and endearing missives. Along with its vintage charm, timeless sentiments, and non-denominational perspective, this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Too Close to the Sun

    Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor

    Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather's inauguration. The country's "First Grandchildren," a pint-sized double act, they were known to the media as "Sistie and Buzzie."In this rich memoir, Roosevelt brings us into "the goldfish bowl," as his family called it -- that glare of public scrutiny to which all presidential ... Read more

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  • Secret Heroes

    Everyday Americans Who Shaped Our World

    by Paul Martin ...
    Secret Heroes is a remarkable compendium by Paul Martin, former Executive Editor of National Geographic Traveler, that illuminates the lives of thirty forgotten American heroes. Gathering together remarkable stories about unknown champions, explorers, inventors, and innovators who never made the pages of American history textbooks—not George Washington, but the tailor who saved his life…twice; the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD