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  • A War of Love

    2Nd Edition

    A War Of Love - 2nd Edition, builds on the work of “A War Of Love – Poems by William T. Elliott”. It has 302 pages compared to the first edition's 128 pages. The book is a book of poems expressing the reflections on love and life of a Vietnam Era Veteran after the Vietnam War. The poems are easy to read and fall into three categories, pretty poems, humorous poems and spiritual poems. Below is a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Student Debt

    A Reference Handbook

    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    Offering answers to essential questions about student debt and many connected issues, this book examines student debt in the United States at every stage of the process-from the banks that issue the loans to the colleges and universities that collect the payments.Student lending in the United States is one of the most controversial issues in contemporary American discourse. Are these loans the ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Transported to Botany Bay

    Class, National Identity, and the Literary Figure of the Australian Convict

    Series series Series in Victorian Studies
    Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts—used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Angel out of the House

    Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England

    Series series Victorian Literature and Culture Series
    Was nineteenth-century British philanthropy the "truest and noblest woman’s work" and praiseworthy for having raised the nation’s moral tone, or was it a dangerous mission likely to cause the defeminization of its practitioners as they became "public persons"? In Victorian England, women’s participation in volunteer work seemed to be a natural extension of their domestic role, but like many other ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Real College Debt Crisis

    How Student Borrowing Threatens Financial Well-Being and Erodes the American Dream

    Is it still worth it for low-income students to attend college, given the debt incurred? This book provides a new framework for evaluating the financial aid system in America, positing that aid must not only allow access to higher education, but also help students succeed in college and facilitate their financial health post-college.Higher education plays a critical role in the economy and society ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Greed in the Gilded Age

    The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick

    Greed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal.‘Millionaire’ had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration. Using these newspaper articles, Hazelgrove tells the story of one of the greatest cons in American history.Combining the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Henry Knox's Noble Train

    The Story of a Boston Bookseller's Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution

    The inspiring story of a little-known hero's pivotal role in the American Revolutionary WarDuring the brutal winter of 1775-1776, an untested Boston bookseller named Henry Knox commandeered an oxen train hauling sixty tons of cannons and other artillery from Fort Ticonderoga near the Canadian border. He and his men journeyed some three hundred miles south and east over frozen, often-treacherous ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair

    The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression—the story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on the 1933 World's Fair.William Elliott Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Charge of the Rough Rider

    Theodore Roosevelt's Final Days

    There have been many books on Theodore Roosevelt, but there are none that solely focus on the last years of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg from an accident, and a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt, in the last two years of his life from April 1917 to January 6, 1919, he went from the great disappointment of being denied his own ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair

    The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago

    Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on The 1933 World's Fair.William Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the golden age. He ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Evil on the Roof of the World

    A Cycling Trip that Ended in Terror

    On a bleak highway in the mountains of Tajikistan known as "the roof of the world", in July of 2018, Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin, along with two other cyclists, were brutally murdered by five ISIS terrorists.They were both Georgetown University graduates who had quit their well-paying Washington, DC, jobs to pursue a bike trip around the world, looking for a different kind of American Dream. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Last Charge of the Rough Rider

    Theodore Roosevelt's Final Days

    Unabridged

    10 hours 17 min

    There have been many books on Theodore Roosevelt, but there are none that solely focus on the last years of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg, and a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt, in the last two years of his life, he went from the great disappointment of being denied his own regiment in World War I, leading a suicide mission ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus