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**You think you know George Washington.** The face on the dollar bill. The cherry tree that never happened. The marble statue who feels less like a man than a monument — distant, cold, impossible to relate to.
That's the problem. Generations of myth-making turned the...
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Chiify
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2026-05-27
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**A nation that began as a thin strip along the Atlantic. Fifty years later — a continental empire stretching from ocean to ocean.** How did it happen? And what did it cost the people already living there?
You've heard the phrase "Manifest Destiny," maybe seen the...
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Chiify
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2026-05-27
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**It tore families apart. It killed 620,000 Americans. It decided what kind of nation we would become** — yet most of us know only a handful of dates and a few famous names.
You've felt it: the sense that the Civil War matters enormously, but the textbook version left...
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Chiify
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2026-05-27
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**Thirteen days. Fewer than two hundred men. One crumbling mission against an army.** They knew they would die — and they stayed anyway.
You know the phrase "Remember the Alamo." You've heard the names Bowie, Crockett, Travis. But the legend has buried the real story —...
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Chiify
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2026-05-27
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In the spring of 1898, America went to war for just ten weeks — and woke up an empire.
Most people know two things about the Spanish-American War: "Remember the Maine," and Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill. But the real story — how one explosion in Havana...
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Chiify
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2026-05-26
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''Army of Shadows'' (L'Armée des ombres) is a gripping, partially fictionalized account of the French Resistance during World War II, written in 1943 by Joseph Kessel. Kessel, a member of the Resistance himself, created a bleak, hyper-realistic tribute to the ordinary...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-25
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Can machines rewild us?
An AI breakthrough connects a team of scientists with a wild dolphin, but progress is neck-and-neck with climate breakdown. Class differences are only the first challenge when romance blooms between college girls at a soil remediation site. A...
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Stelliform Press
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2026-05-21
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It is 1348: as the plague rages in Florence, ten young people flee to the countryside, and to pass the time pleasantly—and perhaps to forget the horror—they each tell a story over the course of ten days. This is the well-known “framework” that encompasses the most...
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Cactus
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2026-05-20
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''Prince of Foxes'' by Samuel Shellabarger is the popular historical adventure novel about Andrea Orsini, a peasant masquerading as a nobleman who serves as a secret agent for the ruthless Cesare Borgia in Renaissance Italy. The story details Orsini's journey from a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-20
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''Captain from Castile'' by Samuel Shellabarger is the best-selling historical adventure novel that follows Pedro de Vargas, a young Spanish nobleman who flees the Spanish Inquisition and joins Hernán Cortés on his expedition to conquer the Aztecs in Mexico.
Set in the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-20
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Henri Barbusse takes us to the very heart of the trenches, revealing the reality of soldiers’ lives—trapped by a patriotic ideal that does not represent them and by a daily horror made up of their own blood and sacrifice. Under Fire is a brutal and ensemble novel, born...
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Cactus
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2026-05-20
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"Andrew Calderone is a talented writer and this deft, entertaining novel has much to say about Canadian food, identity, and coming of age.”—Alix Ohlin, author of Dual Citizens and Inside
Like many passionate cooks, Luca Russo learned to love food at his mother’s...
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Touchwood Editions
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2026-05-19
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''Unwanted Corpse'' involves Merrion working alongside Scotland Yard's Inspector Arnold to solve a crime involving a body.
The plot sets off with a sudden, mysterious death in the English countryside, leaving the local authorities with a literal "unwanted corpse" that...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-16
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The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish is a remarkable collection that brings together one of the earliest works of science fiction with a selection of philosophical, poetic, and imaginative writings from one of the 17th century’s most original...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-05-16
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Seren was doomed to a country club cage and a leash of pearls until out of the blue on a Tuesday night in 1969, she found herself suddenly saying "no." More than fifty years later, she looks back on her life and each choice that followed, beautiful, tragic and...
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University of Calgary Press
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2026-05-15
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Something to Hide (1953) by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a classic British mystery novel featuring his long-running investigators, Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold. The story revolves around a complex, methodical investigation into a murder, involving clues found in...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-15
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Ben Ames Williams' most successful and popular novel was ''Leave Her to Heaven,'' published in 1944. It was a massive bestseller that was later adapted into a classic 1945 film noir of the same name.
A psychological thriller, the story follows Ellen Berent, a socialite...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-13
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''The Death That Lurks Unseen'' is Fletcher's early masterpiece in the mystery and crime fiction genre. At this stage in his career, Fletcher was blending his journalistic precision with a flair for atmospheric, psychological narrative, featuring enigmatic protagonists...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-12
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Richard Goulbourn, a humble clerk, comes into a fortune that enables him to start courting the beautiful and rich Moira. He and his sister move into the house next to the black house in Harley Street where Moira lives with her uncle, Dr. van Mildert, her uncle's...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-05-12
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The Classic Collection of Bess Streeter Aldrich gathers some of the author’s most beloved and emotionally resonant novels in an illustrated edition that highlights her signature blend of historical realism and heartfelt storytelling. This volume includes A Lantern in...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-05-12
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