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Desert sojourn

a woman's forty days and nights alone
2000

Henry David's house

2007
Excerpts from Thoreau's Walden highlight his belief in the inherent value of living life in harmony with nature.

What made the Wild West wild

2006
Brief profiles, stories, and summaries of historic people and events of the American West including Wild Bill Hickok, Annie Oakley, and Billy the Kid; and contains Websites for further study.

Canadian explorers

2005
True stories of five adventurers who explored Canada including Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Pierre de la Verendrye, Samuel Hearne, and David Thompson.

Franklin Roosevelt

the absorbing true-life story of the President who defeated depression and dictators
1976

Sybil Ludington

the call to arms
2000

Fighting back

a memoir of Jewish resistance in World War II
1992

Revolutionary women in the War for American Independence

a one-volume revised edition of Elizabeth Ellet's 1848 landmark series
1998
A modern, annotated adaptation of the 1848 text that explores the roles played by eighty-four American women in the Revolution War.

Journeys in new worlds

early American women's narratives
1990
Biographical narratives of Mary Rowlandson, Madame Knight, Elizabeth Ashbridge, and Elizabeth House Trist.

The princes in the tower

1994
Reconstructs the chain of events leading to the double murder of boy King Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, considering the prime suspects in the murder.

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