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American Boy

by Larry Watson

Published: 2011-09-13

Hardcover: 224 pages

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We were exposed to these phenomena in order that we might learn something, but of course the lessons we learn are not always those we are taught . . .So begins Matthew Garth's story of the fall of 1962, when the shooting of a young woman on Thanksgiving Day sets off a chain of unsettling e...

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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964

by William Manchester

Published: 1978-09-30

Hardcover: 793 pages

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Part One Of Two PartsMacArthur was not only a lean, chiseled military genius and master of strategy; he also suffered unexplained lapses. For example, he knew of the Pearl Harbor attack but neglected to deploy his Philippine air force, a failure which resulted in its total destruction. And the success...

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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood

by Marie Arana

Published: 2002-05-28

Paperback: 309 pages

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In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But on...

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An American Childhood

by Annie Dillard

Published: 1989

Paperback: 255 pages

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A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

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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...