Nathan Hale
In 1950, Marguerite Higgins (1920–1966) was made bureau chief of the Far East Asia desk for the New York Herald Tribune. Tensions were high on the Korean peninsula, where a border drawn after WWII split the country into North and South. When the North Korean army crossed...
4) Blades of Freedom: A Louisiana Purchase Tale: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase
Why would Napoleon Bonaparte sell the Louisiana Territory to the recently formed United States of America? It all comes back to the island nation of Haiti, which Napoleon had planned to use as a base for trade with North America. While Napoleon...
Sid, Axl, and Ivan volunteer to make a late-night fast-food run for the high school theater crew, and when they return, they find themselves. Not in a deep, metaphoric sense: They find copies of themselves onstage. As they look closer, they begin to realize that the world around them isn't quite right. Turns out, when they went to the taco place across town, they actually crossed into an alien dimension that's eerily similar to their world. The
..."These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history." —New York Times
Ships are great for transport, but when they are made of...
âThese books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.â âNew York Times
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Meet Underground Railroad abductor Harriet Tubman in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series!
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Araminta Ross was an enslaved woman born in Delaware. After years of backbreaking...
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What happens when a couple of prehistoric creatures want to become internet stars? Trilobite and Amber (a walking whale) dream of fame and fortune. They donât realize that most of the world thinks that theyâre extinct. When a wandering paleo-newscaster introduces them to the world of internet videos, they...
âThese books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.â âNew York Times
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Discover the shocking and true story of the ill-fated Donner Party expedition with the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series!
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In the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and...
10) One Trick Pony
The aliens have arrived. And they're hungry for electricity. In the Earth of the future, humans are on the run from an alien force—giant blobs who suck up electrical devices wherever they can find them. Strata and her family are part of a caravan of digital rescuers, hoping to keep the memory of civilization alive by saving electronics wherever they can. Many humans have reverted to a pre-electrical age, and others have taken advantage of
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