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American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of the USA)

by Alan Taylor

Published: 2002-07-30

Paperback: 544 pages

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With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival ...

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American Cookery: A Novel

by Laura Kalpakian

Published: 2007-11-27

Paperback: 432 pages

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American Cookery bursts with the joy of cooking and the spice of life—a feast of friendship and family. High-spirited Eden Douglass is born into a contentious California clan full of headstrong women who vie for her loyalty. The Douglass women are known to borrow trouble as well ...

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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic

by Joseph J. Ellis

Published: 2008-10-14

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National BestsellerAcclaimed historian Joseph J. Ellis brings his unparalleled talents to this riveting account of the early years of the Republic.The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated group of men unde...

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American Dervish

by Ayad Akhtar

Published: 2012-01-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant friend is a family legend. When he learns that Mina is leaving Pakistan to live with the Shahs in America, Hayat is thrilled. Hayat's father is less enthusiastic. Ever wary of fundamentalism, he doesn't relish...

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American Dervish: A Novel

by Ayad Akhtar

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arr...

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An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China

by Clarence Adams

Published: 2007-06

Paperback: 176 pages

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Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning?character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attr...

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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

by Kevin Phillips

Published: 2004

Hardcover: 397 pages

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A BookPage Notable TitleA former Nixon White House strategist, Phillips details the making of the Bush family dynasty across four generations, documenting how it has exemplified many of the growing trends in American political life and how it has touched all the major "Establishment&q...

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American Eve

by Paula Uruburu

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 400 pages

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The scandalous story of America’s first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity—Evelyn Nesbit.By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and...

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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the

by Paula Uruburu

Published: 2008-05-01

Hardcover: 400 pages

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An American Family

by Peter Lefcourt

Published: 2012-03-25

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The sprawling narrative of five siblings, born in the 1940's, beginning on the day John Kennedy was shot and ending on 9/11. Between these two iconic dates, we follow the fortunes, love affairs, marriages, divorces, successes and failures of the Perls, an immigrant Polish-Jewish family, fr...