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To be a slave. To be owned by another person, as a car, house, or a table is owned. To live as a piece of property that could be sold... This book is about how it felt. The words of black men and women who had themselves been slaves are here, accompanied by Julius Lester's historical commentary and Tom Feelings's powerful and muted paintings, To Be a Slave has been a touchstone in children's literature for... (more)

After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam

After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam

by Ronald H. Spector

The TET Offensive of 1968 was supposed to mark a turning point in the war in Vietnam. In this brilliant and harrowing work, the bestselling author of Eagle Against the Sun shows the war that the TV missed--and reveals that TET was only the beginning. Photos.

The Last Campaign

Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America

by Thurston Clarke

The definitive account of Robert Kennedy’s exhilarating and tragic 1968 campaign for president—a revelatory history that is especially resonant now After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Robert Kennedy—formerly Jack’s no-holds-barred political warrior—almost lost hope. He was haunted by his brother’s murder, and by the nation’s seeming inabilities to solve its problems of race, poverty, and the war in Vietnam.... (more)

The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (Voices of the South)

The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed (Voices of the South)

by Lee Smith

The Mousetrap

by Agatha Christie

A newly-jacketed edition published to coincide with the 50th anniversary year of the longest-running play in history. THE MOUSETRAP, the longest-running play in the history of London's West End, begins its 50th Year run on 25 November 2001. This new edition of four works show how Agatha Christie's plays are as compulsive as her novels, their colourful characters and ingenious plots providing yet more evidence of... (more)

The House of Dies Drear

by Virginia Hamilton

The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend -- two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms.... (more)

The Barretts of Wimpole Street.Rudolf Besier

The Barretts of Wimpole Street.

by Rudolf Besier

Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (October Books)

Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (October Books)

This volume is a revised and expanded version of a special issue of the journal October (Winter 1997) that was devoted to the work of the Situationist International (SI). The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI's profound engagement... (more)

Tikki Tikki Tembo

by Arlene Mosel

Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo! Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of... (more)

Leatherneck Legends: Conversations With the Marine Corps' Old Breed

Leatherneck Legends: Conversations With the Marine Corps' Old Breed

by Richard D. Camp

Within the Marine Corps the “Old Breed” has a special meaning, referring to the soldiers of the 1st Marine Division and their heroic defense of Guadalcanal in the early days of World War II, as well as to those who have gone before. This book gives today’s readers a rare chance to hear these old soldiers tell their own stories and to learn firsthand what it was like to be there for some of the twentieth century’s... (more)

The Fire Last Time

by Chris Harman

The Last Summer (Beeler Large Print Series)

The Last Summer (Beeler Large Print Series)

by John Hough

A classic love story, The Last Summer chronicles a young man on the verge of growing up and an older woman running away from a life out of control. It is the summer of 1968: The world is poised on the cusp of radical change. Politicians question the status quo, blacks react to decades of oppression, and students protest the injustices of war. Change is in the air, too, for 37-year-old single mother Claire... (more)

Airs Above Ground

by Mary Stewart

Vanessa March never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the scene of a deadly fire. But her hunt for answers only leads to more sinister questions in a mysterious world of beautiful horses. And what waits for Vanessa in the shadows is more terrifying than anything she has ever encountered.

Night of the Iguana

by Tennessee Williams

Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.

America in Search of Itself the Making of the President 1956-1980WHITE (Theodore)

America in Search of Itself the Making of the President 1956-1980

by WHITE (Theodore)

ARSENIC AND OLD LACEKESSELRING JOSEPH

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

by KESSELRING JOSEPH

A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties

A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties

by Bill Eppridge

On June 6, 1968, at the age of 42 and at the height of his popularity, Robert F. Kennedy was tragically assassinated. Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator, father—Kennedy was all of these things—and, to many Americans, he embodied the power of possibility and positive change during a period of social unrest, racial inequality, and war. Renowned Life photographer Bill Eppridge followed and photographed... (more)

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895 and quickly became the benchmark for modern anti-war literature. Although the exact battle is never identified, Crane based this story of a soldier’s experiences during the American Civil War on the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville. Many veterans, both Union and Confederate, praised... (more)

Hawaii

by james michener

This first printing is bound in off-white cloth, 8.75 inches tall, 937 pages. Includes eight pages of genealogical charts, with the names of the principal characters appearing in bold type. Map endpapers.

Of the Farm

by John Updike

First Fawcett Crest Printing. MM paperack.

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by Julius Lester