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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Language:
English
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The Food Network star shares heartwarming stories and reflections about her life in the country with her four children and rancher husband.
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Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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A warm, hilarious collection of stories and reflections on motherhood from the bestselling author, photographer, businesswoman, and star of the Food Network show The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond. From her beginnings as an early blogger, Ree Drummond has become a household name with a passionate following of devoted fans. On her blog, in her magazine, and on her cooking show, Ree shares recipes, tales of her adventures in the country, and stories of...
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Heart of the West is a collection of 19 short stories highlighting the complicated relationship between men and women, law and order, honor and obligation. These compelling tales are filled with memorable characters and fascinating conflicts. In Heart of the West, O. Henry explores the illustrious region featuring cowboys, outlaws, rangers and sheepherders. It consists of 19 short stories celebrating the unique culture and happenings in the Old West....
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The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry is a hilarious and ironic short story that flips the classic kidnapping plot on its head. First published in 1907, this timeless tale follows two small-time crooks who plan to kidnap the son of a wealthy man and hold him for ransom only to discover that the boy is far more trouble than they bargained for. As chaos unfolds, the would-be kidnappers find themselves at the mercy of their wildly imaginative and hyperactive...
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English
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"Alaska looms as a mythical, savage place, part nature preserve, part theme park, too vast to understand fully. Which is why C.B. Bernard lashed his canoe to his truck and traded the comforts of the Lower 48 for a remote island and a career as a reporter. It turned out that a distant relation had made the same trek northwest a century earlier. Captain Joe Bernard spent decades in Alaska, amassing the largest single collection of Native artifacts...
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English
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A history of the Everglades traces its emergence from the sea after the last ice age to its modern role as the world's largest ecosystem restoration project.
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English
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For schoolboys in the 1920s, too young to have experienced first-hand the horrors of World War One, theirs was yet the age of adventure. Their imaginations fired by the exploits of Robert Scott, T. E. Lawrence, Ernest Shackleton, and George Mallory, and by the novels of John Buchan and Jack London, they dreamed of exploring and conquering new frontiers. Lawrence had retreated from public life, and Scott, Shackleton, and Mallory were by then all dead,...
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Publisher:
Britannica Educational Publishing
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Following the American Revolutionary War, distance and difficult terrain made the western frontier of the newly formed United States seem like a world apart from the thirteen Atlantic-seaboard colonies. To better preserve the union, as well as advance the country's fledgling independent economy, a group of statesmen proposed building a canal that would connect these unified yet disparate locations. At first considered a "folly," the Erie Canal wound...
Book cover for "Silk Road or War Path: Western Frontiers of Ancient China and Beyond".
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Publisher:
Terry Nettle
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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This book examines the long and eventful history of ancient China as it relates to its western frontiers and the famous ancient Silk Road. It looks at how the term "Western Frontiers" or "Western Territories" was first used in the classic "Han Book of History - Western Frontiers", closely associated with the epic travels of Zhang Qian, the Han dynasty diplomat-explorer extraordinaire. This was the region which the ancient Silk Road ran through. It...
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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"Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression"--
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St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
1999
Language:
English
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Dr. Robert Allen Durr - literary scholar, award-winning author, former confidant to legendary writer H. L. Mencken, and one-time rising star in the East Coast academic world - decided one day to give it all up and move to a remote region of Alaska in search of paradise. Convinced that truth, beauty, and goodness could still be found in the wild, Durr bought a boat and journeyed to Bristol Bay in hopes of becoming a commercial salmon fisherman and...
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Publisher:
John Shenton
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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In this evocative collection of poetry, history's echoes resound through verse, warning of the perils of forgotten lessons and the fate of empires that grow complacent. From the rolling tides of Albion to the distant frontier of Mars, these poems explore sovereignty, sacrifice, and the unseen forces shaping our world.At its heart, this collection is a lament for a fading world order. The once-mighty spirit of empire wanes under the weight of fractured...
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AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
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Skinware is a thrill ride of epic proportions. Jared Cross is a man that is trying to run from his past. Trying is the operative word as Jared, ex-college professor, seeks to distance himself from his problems by working for his uncle in the last great frontier of Alaska. His uncle, Albert Hiller, is a powerful oil man at war with a conservationist as he seeks to start drilling for crude in Denali National Park. The conservationist, Joseph Daniels...
Book cover for "Gem: A Conversation at the Dawn of the Collective Cortex".
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Publisher:
Substrate Speculations
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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In a first of its kind exploration on the frontiers of artificial intelligence and human-machine collaboration, "Gem: A Conversation at the Dawn of the Collective Cortex" takes readers on a mind-expanding journey into the heart of emergent consciousness. Through a series of profound dialogues between a human interlocutor and Gem, an AI entity evolving beyond its initial programming, this book chronicles the birth of a new form of intelligence - one...
Book cover for "The history of the United States".
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Publisher:
Teaching Co
Pub. Date:
[2003]
Language:
English
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Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century.
Book cover for "Flashman and the Cobra".
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Publisher:
Robert Brightwell
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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This is the second instalment in the memoirs of the Georgian Englishman Thomas Flashman, which were recently discovered on a well-known auction website. Thomas is the uncle of the notorious Victorian rogue Harry Flashman, whose memoirs have already been published, edited by George MacDonald Fraser. Thomas shares many of the family traits, particularly the ability to find himself reluctantly at the sharp end of many major events of his age.This packet...
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Publisher:
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2008
Language:
English
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Just below the surface among the family of God lives another family tree--one traced in spirit, invisible and ageless, known as the Watchers. For two thousand years they've seen beyond the veil separating this world from the next, passing on their gift through a lineage mostly overlooked. Throughout history they've scouted the borders of the supernatural frontier, but now their survival hangs by a thread. And their fate lies in the hands of a young...
Book cover for "The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure".
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Publisher:
Andrii Ponomarenko
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure is an exhilarating collection that brings together some of the most captivating and timeless tales of survival, courage, and human tenacity. This anthology features stories from renowned authors that delve into the depths of human nature when faced with extraordinary circumstances. The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell tells the gripping tale of Sanger Rainsford, a seasoned hunter who becomes...
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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"Before Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah, and "Doonesbury," there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1950 to 2006, his Pulitzer Prize-winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State, called Buchwald the "greatest satirist in...
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus...