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"An engaging love story with strong, believable characters. I can't wait to read the sequels!"
—Mary Balogh
"Prepare to fall in love."
—Julia Quinn
Presenting the winner of the Avon FanLit contest, the immensely talented Tessa Dare! Tessa's first Avon historical romance, A Night to Surrender, is a love story to remember—kicking off her wonderfully inventive Spindle Cove series, set in England's Regency Era
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New York University Press
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English
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"In the early decades of the American Republic, American soldiers demonstrated and defined their beliefs about the nature of American republicanism and how they, as citizens and soldiers, were participants in the republican experiment through their service. In For Liberty and the Republic, Ricardo A. Herrera examines the relationship between soldier and citizen from the War of Independence through the first year of the Civil War. The work analyzes...
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City Lights Books
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English
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"America loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James, to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected the market that arms the nation. In Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the myths of gun culture to expose the true historical origins of the Second Amendment, revealing the racial undercurrents connecting the earliest Anglo settlers with contemporary gun proliferation, modern-day policing, and the...
5) End game
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Will Robie novels volume 5
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English
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Will Robie and Jessica Reel are two of the most lethal people alive. They're the ones the government calls in when the utmost secrecy is required to take out those who plot violence and mass destruction against the United States. And through every mission, one man has always had their backs: their CIA handler, code-named Blue Man. But now Blue Man is missing. Last seen in rural Colorado, Blue Man had taken a rare vacation to go fly fishing in his...
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Letty Davenport novels volume 1
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English
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Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master's in economics, she's restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty's ready to quit, but her...
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Regnery Publishing
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English
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"What Part of the Second Amendment Don't You Understand?" That's the question posed by award-winning, New York Times bestselling author, and professional firearms instructor, Larry Correia. Bringing with him the practical experience that comes from having owned a high-end gun store--catering largely to law enforcement--and as a competitive shooter and self-defense trainer, Correia blasts apart the emotion-laden, logic-free rhetoric of the gun control...
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Caitlin Strong novels volume 3
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Forge
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First edition.
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English
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Two decades after her father shot down the cult-like leader of a separatist church, fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong is challenged to stop the man's son, the head of a militia movement who has amassed enough guns and money to wage a second civil war.
10) The darkest path
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Scholastic Press
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First edition.
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English
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Since he was captured by the Glorious Path, a militant religion based on the teachings of a former soldier, fifteen-year-old Cal has served the Path in its brutal war with the remains of the United States government, and tried to survive and protect his younger brother but when he kills an officer to protect a stray dog, Cal is forced take his brother and the dog and run.
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Tantor Audio
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Unabridged.
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English
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Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans-most of them members of farm families living in small communities-were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority. This is the compelling story of our national political origins that most Americans do not know....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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English
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"For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them...
13) Iraq uncovered
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PBS Distribution
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English
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Examine the forces vying for control of Iraq in the places where ISIS has been pushed out.
14) The minutemen
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Compass Point Books
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English
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An introduction to the background and contributions of the militia members known as minutemen during the American Revolution.
15) Fort Mose: and the story of the man who built the first free black settlement in colonial America
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
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English
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Tells the story of Fort Mose, the first free African settlement to legally exist in what is now the United States, established in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1738, and includes over forty images, as well as notes on the uncovering of the fort.
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Simon & Schuster
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
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"The story of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont and their role in the American Revolution--the myth and the reality. A rare look at a corner of the Revolutionary War. In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. They were ruffians who joined the...
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Men of summer novels volume 3
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
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English
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Grace, a member of the notorious Maddox family who is a marked woman, is forced to accept Zack Richards's protection and finally finds safety in the arms of this man who refuses to let shocking secrets tear them apart.
19) Bushwick
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RLJ Entertainment
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Widescreen version.
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English
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When Lucy steps off the subway, she walks into an utter bloodbath on the streets of Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. Texas is attempting to secede from the Union, and militia forces have descended upon New York City to claim it as an East Coast base of operations and negotiation tool. Faced with a flurry of whizzing bullets and total destruction around every corner, Lucy takes shelter in the basement with Stupe, a burly war veteran.
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