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Homelands and Waterways

The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

By: Adele Logan Alexander

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Homelands and Waterways

The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

By: Adele Logan Alexander

This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom. Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently freed slave, Alexander shows three generations of Bonds as they take chances and break new ground. From Victorian England to antebellum Virginia, from Herman Melville's New England to the Jim Crow South, from urban race riots to the battlefields of World War I, this fascinating chronicle sheds new light on eighty crucial years in our nation's troubled history. The Bond family's rise from slavery, their interaction with prominent figures such as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, and their eventual, uneasy realization of the American dream shed a great deal of light on our nation's troubled heritage.

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Vintage

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0307426254

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9780307426253

Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story

By: Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

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Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story

By: Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

2031 A.D. Just a week before Christmas, all hell breaks loose. A crime wave tears through Cryo City like a typhoon, with a sudden explosion of poisoned eggnog on the supermarket shelves and a swarm of an immortal psychopath's sentient, multiplying limbs riding the wave. Damian Warkowski is caught in the middle of this royal mess as he's tasked with finding the man he believes to be responsible for all this chaos--an immortal bank robber whose agenda seems to extend a lot further than running a few bank jobs to fill his pockets. Something big is going down, and no one knows what, but they do know that it ain't gonna be pretty. He's got till Christmas Day to bring it all to a stop; otherwise, the city might not survive to see the New Year.

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Lulu.com

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1989331041

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9781989331040

Fiona's Journey

By: Agnes Alexander

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Fiona's Journey

By: Agnes Alexander

In March, 1855, Fiona Webb ran from her home with her eight-year-old nephew, Joey, after her brother and sister-in-law are murdered. They are trying to escape a brutal neighbor, Luther Markin, who plans to make a slave of Joey and use Fiona for his own evil purposes. To get on a wagon train heading for Oregon they join Clint Larson and his pregnant wife, Rose as extended family. It doesn't take Fiona long to realize she's attracted to Clint despite her feelings of sisterly love for Rose. To complicate things, Luther Markin teams up with Rose's father, Wade Fillmore and his business partner, Leo Carver from Baltimore and they follow the wagon train. Fillmore wants to take Rose away from Larson and force her to go back east, but Carver has his own depraved reason for wanting to find Rose.

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290

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Simon and Schuster

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1611602173

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9781611602173

Shadow Fall (Star Wars)

An Alphabet Squadron Novel

By: Alexander Freed

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Shadow Fall (Star Wars)

An Alphabet Squadron Novel

By: Alexander Freed

Alphabet Squadron’s hunt for the deadliest TIE fighters in the galaxy continues in this Star Wars adventure! News of the New Republic’s victory still reverberates through the galaxy. In its wake, the capital ships of the newly legitimized galactic government journey to the farthest stars, seeking out and crushing the remnants of imperial tyranny. But some old ghosts are harder to banish than others. And none are more dangerous than Shadow Wing. Yrica Quell’s ragtag Alphabet Squadron still leads the search for Shadow Wing, but they’re no closer to their goal—and the pressure to find their quarry before it’s too late has begun to shake them apart. Determined to finish the fight once and for all, Quell works with New Republic Intelligence’s contentious Caern Adan and the legendary General Hera Syndulla to prepare the riskiest gambit of her starfighting career—a trap for Shadow Wing that could finish the chase once and for all. But in the darkness, their enemy has evolved. Soran Keize, last of the Imperial aces, has stepped into the power vacuum at the head of Shadow Wing, reinvigorating the faltering unit in their hour of need. Once adrift in the aftershocks of the war, Keize has found meaning again, leading the lost soldiers of his unit through to safety. The only thing standing in his way? The most mismatched squadron in the New Republic Navy, led by his former mentee: the traitor Yrica Quell.

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368

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Random House Worlds

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1984820052

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9781984820051

Princess of the Hither Isles

A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South

By: Adele Logan Alexander

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Princess of the Hither Isles

A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South

By: Adele Logan Alexander

“If you combine the pleasures of a seductive novel, discovering a real American heroine, and learning the multiracial history of this country that wasn't in our textbooks, you will have an idea of the great gift that Adele Logan Alexander has given us in Princess of the Hither Isles. By writing about her own grandmother, she helps us discover our own country.”—Gloria Steinem "Both a definitive rendering of a life and a remarkable study of the interplay of race and gender in an America whose shadows still haunt us today.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "Absorbing."—New Yorker Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute but also joined the segregated woman suffrage movement, passing for white in order to fight for the rights of people of color. Her determination—as a wife, mother, scholar, and activist —to challenge the draconian restraints of race and gender generated conflicts that precipitated her tragic demise. Historian Adele Logan Alexander—Adella Hunt Logan’s granddaughter—portrays Adella, her family, and contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Alexander bridges the chasms that frustrate efforts to document the lives of those who traditionally have been silenced, weaving together family lore, historical research, and literary imagination into a riveting, multigenerational family saga.

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390

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Yale University Press

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0300242603

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9780300242607

Forty Acres

A Thriller

By: Dwayne Alexander Smith

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Forty Acres

A Thriller

By: Dwayne Alexander Smith

“A thriller in a class by itself—brilliant and scary!” —Terry McMillan Read the page-turning, provocative thriller that will forever change the way you think about slavery and its legacy in today’s America. Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men in America. He’s dazzled by what they’ve accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be as successful as they are. They invite him for a weekend away from it all—no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. But far from home and cut off from everyone he loves, he discovers a disturbing secret that challenges some of his deepest convictions… Martin finds out that his glittering new friends are part of a secret society dedicated to the preservation of the institution of slavery—but this time around, the black men are called “Master.” Joining them seems to guarantee a future without limits; rebuking them almost certainly guarantees his death. Trapped inside a picture-perfect, make-believe world that is home to a frightening reality, Martin must find a way out that will allow him to stay alive without becoming the very thing he hates. A novel of rage and compassion, good and evil, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the thought-provoking story of one man’s desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476730555

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9781476730554

Indian Wars: The Fightings in West Virgina, North Carolina, Montana & Illinois

History of Conflicts Between European Colonists and the Indigenous Peoples of North America: Wars in West Virgina, North Carolina, Montana & Illinois

By: Enoch Lawrence Lee,Black Hawk,Charles M. Scanlan,Alexander Scott Withers,Joseph Kossuth Dixon

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Indian Wars: The Fightings in West Virgina, North Carolina, Montana & Illinois

History of Conflicts Between European Colonists and the Indigenous Peoples of North America: Wars in West Virgina, North Carolina, Montana & Illinois

By: Enoch Lawrence Lee,Black Hawk,Charles M. Scanlan,Alexander Scott Withers,Joseph Kossuth Dixon

This carefully edited historical collection of has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Indian Wars is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States government and American settlers, against the indigenous peoples of North America. These conflicts occurred from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the 17th century until the 1920s. Contents: Indian Wars in North Carolina 1663-1763 Chronicles of Border Warfare – Indian Wars in West Virginia Autobiography of the Sauk Leader Black Hawk and the History of the Black Hawk War of 1832 The Vanishing Race - The Last Great Indian Council

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861

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e-artnow

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8027245486

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9788027245482

A Love Like This

By: Kianna Alexander

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A Love Like This

By: Kianna Alexander

Tis the season for everlasting love… All Devon Granger wants for Christmas is a peaceful, low-key escape to his North Carolina coastal hometown far from LA. But how is the injured Hollywood action star supposed to rest with Hadley Monroe tending to his every need? His caring childhood friend has blossomed into a stunning, self-possessed woman who’s making her amorous feelings known…and lighting a fire Devon has no interest in putting out. As the youngest in a family of overprotective brothers, Hadley has to work twice as hard to prove herself. The heiress to the Monroe real estate dynasty plans to transform Sapphire Shores while preserving its small-town charm—a vision she shares with Devon. Until the media and Hollywood camera crews descend on the beachfront community, putting their love to the ultimate test. With suspicion and mistrust dividing them, will Hadley and Devon ring in the New Year…together?

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129

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Harlequin

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148801390X

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9781488013904

Understanding Marilynne Robinson

By: Alexander John Engebretson

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Understanding Marilynne Robinson

By: Alexander John Engebretson

A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfiction Alex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and essays to date, providing an overview of the author's life, themes, and literary and religious influences. Understanding Marilynne Robinson examines this author of three highly acclaimed novels and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the Orange Prize for fiction, and the National Humanities Medal. Through close readings of the novels and essay collections, Engebretson uncovers the unifying elements of Robinson's work: a dialogue with liberal Protestantism, an emphasis on regional settings, the marked influence of nineteenth-century American literature, and the theme of home. The study begins with Housekeeping, Robinson's haunting debut novel, which undertakes a feminist revision of the Western genre. Twenty-four years later Robinson began a literary project that would bring her national recognition, three novels set in a small, rural Iowa town. The first was Gilead, which took up the major American themes of race, the legacy of the Civil War, and the tensions between secular and religious lives. Two more Gilead novels followed, Home and Lila, both of which display Robinson's gift for capturing the mysterious dynamics of sin and grace. In Understanding Marilynne Robinson, Engebretson also reviews her substantial body of non-fiction, which demonstrates a dazzling intellectual range, from the contemporary science-religion debates, to Shakespeare, to the fate of liberal democracy. Throughout this study Engebretson makes the argument for Marilynne Robinson as an essential, deeply unfashionable, visionary presence within today's literary scene.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611178037

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9781611178036

Star Wars Battlefront

Twilight Company

By: Alexander Freed

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Star Wars Battlefront

Twilight Company

By: Alexander Freed

Inspired by the videogame "Star Wars: Battlefront.

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Lucas Books

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0345511212

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9780345511218

Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars)

By: Alexander Freed

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Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars)

By: Alexander Freed

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED • A companion novel inspired by Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil. The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors. Among the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the Mid Rim, legions of ruthless stormtroopers—bent on crushing resistance to the Empire wherever it arises—are waging close and brutal combat against an armada of freedom fighters. In the streets and alleys of ravaged cities, the front-line forces of the Rebel Alliance are taking the fight to the enemy, pushing deeper into Imperial territory and grappling with the savage flesh-and-blood realities of war on the ground. Leading the charge are the soldiers—men and women, human and nonhuman—of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company. Hard-bitten, war-weary, and ferociously loyal to one another, the members of this renegade outfit doggedly survive where others perish, and defiance is their most powerful weapon against the deadliest odds. When orders come down for the rebels to fall back in the face of superior opposition numbers and firepower, Twilight reluctantly complies. Then an unlikely ally radically changes the strategic equation—and gives the Alliance’s hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence. Orders or not, alone and outgunned but unbowed, Twilight Company locks, loads, and prepares to make its boldest maneuver—trading down-and-dirty battle in the trenches for a game-changing strike at the ultimate target: the very heart of the Empire’s military machine. Praise for Battlefront: Twilight Company “A novel that ties in to a video game based on a sprawling sci-fi franchise shouldn’t be this good. . . . Battlefront: Twilight Company effortlessly thrusts readers onto the frontlines of the Galactic Civil War in a gripping tale.”—New York Daily News “Compelling . . . an entertaining journey through a galaxy in turmoil . . . Battlefront: Twilight Company explores what happens to the cannon fodder fighting and dying in the background of space opera’s cinematic action sequences. Focusing on the life of a few low-ranking Rebel grunts caught up in a vast interstellar conflict, the novel is an enjoyable tale of interstellar adventure and drama.”—IGN “Satisfyingly complex, immersive and moving . . . a war story unlike any Star Wars book that’s come before it.”—Roqoo Depot “A military thriller [with] some pretty impressive actions scenes [and] the lived-in, gritty feel of the original trilogy . . . [Alexander] Freed shows us the military side of the Star Wars universe in a way that we haven’t seen much before, while also giving readers new perspectives on classic characters and moments.”—Tech Times “Twilight Company is one of the greatest Star Wars stories ever about someone doggedly, cynically coming to understand why acting according to the light side is important.”—Den of Geek “The strongest canon piece of Star Wars literature thus far . . . sure to be a fan-pleasing favorite . . . Explosive action scenes and dark humor only punctuate this character-driven tale [with] heavy world-building and cameos from other characters throughout the Star Wars pantheon.”—Alternative Nation

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1101884770

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Homelands and Waterways

Homelands and Waterways

Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story

Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story

Fiona's Journey

Fiona's Journey

Shadow Fall (Star Wars)

Shadow Fall (Star Wars)

Princess of the Hither Isles

Princess of the Hither Isles

Forty Acres

Forty Acres

Indian Wars: The Fightings in West Virgina, North Carolina, Montana & Illinois

Indian Wars: The Fightings in West Virgina, North Carolina, Montana & Illinois

A Love Like This

A Love Like This

Understanding Marilynne Robinson

Understanding Marilynne Robinson

Star Wars Battlefront

Star Wars Battlefront

Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars)

Battlefront: Twilight Company (Star Wars)

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