The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America

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This book is the story of how three brilliant scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. The four men came together in a time of upheaval and experimentation, and their exploration of an expanded conscio... More >>

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America

AGS ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS: THE STORY OF MY LIFE BOOK

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Students with lower reading abilities can enjoy some of the most important literature of our culture.Amazon.com Review
Helen Keller would not be bound by conditions. Rendered deaf and blind at 19 months by scarlet fever, she learned to read (in several languages) and even speak, eventually graduating with honors from Radcliffe College in 1904, where as a student she wrote The Story of My Life. That she accomplished all of this in an age when few women... More >>

AGS ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS: THE STORY OF MY LIFE BOOK

Young Men and Fire

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On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.

Young Men and Fire won the National Book Critics Circle Aw... More >>

Young Men and Fire

The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

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In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and ultimately triumphant tales of survival to emerge from the Holocaust. The Girl in the Green Sweater is Chiger's first-person account of the fourteen months she spent with her family i... More >>

The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

Henry VIII

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Henry VIII

Rees Howells: Intercessor

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Rees Howells was a man of little worldly fame, yet through Norman Grubb's best-selling biography, his life story has become known to millions. Born in a Welsh mining village, Rees Howells left school at twelve and worked in a tin mill and a coal mine. As he came to know the redeeming power of his Lord and Saviour he faced the implications of an entire surrender, learned to love the unlovely and found the key to the power of prayer. As a result he became a man of gre... More >>

Rees Howells: Intercessor

Blood Brothers

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As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. The townspeople were proud of their ancient Christian heritage and lived at peace with their Jewish neighbors. But early in 1947, their idyllic lifestyle was swept away as tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps. An exile in his native land, Elias began a years-long struggle with his love for the Jewish people and the world's misunde... More >>

Blood Brothers

Jeanne D'arc - Her Life and Death

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Jeanne D'arc - Her Life and Death

Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster

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Acclaimed author Alison Weir has been prolific with her books on English royalty covering everything from the Houses of York and Lancaster to the reigns of the Tudors and beyond. Now this remarkable historian brings to life the extraordinary tale of the woman who was ancestor to them all: Katherine Swynford, a royal mistress who was to become one of the most crucial figures in the history of the British royal dynasties.

Born in the mid-fourteenth century, Kat... More >>

Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster

The Pulitzer Prize Collection

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A collection of twelve Pulitzer Prize winning books with an active table of contents to help you easily find the book you are looking for.

Alice Adams
Anna Christie
The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
The Age of Innocence
Cornhuskers
A Daughter of the Middle Border
The Education of Henry Adams
His Family
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I
The Life and Letters of Walter... More >>

The Pulitzer Prize Collection

Henry VIII: The King and His Court

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“WEIR’S BOOK OUTSHINES ALL PREVIOUS STUDIES OF HENRY. Beautifully written, exhaustive in its research, it is a gem. . . . She succeeds masterfully in making Henry and his six wives . . . come alive for the reader.”
–Philadelphia Inquirer

Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent–and dangerous–courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal... More >>

Henry VIII: The King and His Court

Who Was King Tut?

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Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. Now, a two-and-a-half-year-long museum exhibit of Tut’s treasures is touring major cities in the U.S., drawing record crowds. This Who Was . . . ? is complete with 100 black-andwhite illustrations and explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler, covering the story of the tomb’s discovery, as ... More >>

Who Was King Tut?

Black Hawk: An Autobiography

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  This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from his people. The author is Black Hawk himself - once pursued by an army whose members included Captain Abraham Lincoln and Lieutenant Jefferson Davis. Perhaps no Indian ever saw so much of American expansion or fought harder to prevent that expansion from driving his pe... More >>

Black Hawk: An Autobiography

Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography

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A number one bestseller in Britain that topped the lists there for months, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and his supporting role in A C... More >>

Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography

The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

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The King of England broke away from the Catholic Church and started another so he could divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn. Anne was unable to bear him a son. She did bear him a daughter who later became Elizabeth I.
Three years after her marriage Queen Anne was executed on the King's orders on false charges of witchcraft, incest and adultery.
This book contains the letters written by Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to each other.

A clear demonstration... More >>

The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn

Ten Days in a Mad-House

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The classic book by Nellie Bly, one of the greatest journalists who ever lived. Bly wrote this memoir after going undercover in the Women's Lunatic Assylum on Blackwell's Island. Introduction by M. William Phelps and Gregg Olsen.... More >>

Ten Days in a Mad-House

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

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The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story. 

The queens of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the world... More >>

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

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When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Texas, not yet part of the Union, was threatened by a more powerful Mexico. And the territories north and west of Texas -- what would become California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and part of Colorado -- belonged to Mexico. When Polk r... More >>

A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

Cleopatra: A Life of Romance

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Cleopatra: A Life of Romance is the highly acclaimed historical novel by the worldwide bestselling author of Queen Sheba's Ring and The Virgin of the Sun. The story, told from the point of view of the Egyptian priest Harmachis, is recounted in the form of papyrus scrolls found in a tomb. The portrait of Cleopatra in this novel is quite stunning, revealing her wit, her treachery, and her overwhelming presence. Written in a true epic style, this inte... More >>

Cleopatra: A Life of Romance

Cleopatra: A Life of Passion

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Cleopatra: A Life of Passion is the worldwide bestselling original historical romance about the life, lusts, passions and loves of Egypt's last pharaoh and Greek queen. Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such legends of her seductive charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and, therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar, ... More >>

Cleopatra: A Life of Passion

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

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It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this fa... More >>

We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals