February 2013 Catalog

February 2013 Catalog PDF Author:
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 146892513X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541

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February 2013 Catalog

February 2013 Catalog PDF Author:
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 146892513X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541

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Directory of Family Associations

Directory of Family Associations PDF Author: Elizabeth Petty Bentley
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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This directory of family associations, based largely on data received in response to questionnaires sent to family associations, reunion committees, and one-name societies, offers contact information on some 6,000 family associations in the US. The directory is useful for those engaging in genealogical research or planning family reunions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

The Genealogical Helper

The Genealogical Helper PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 892

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Stuck in Neutral

Stuck in Neutral PDF Author: Terry Trueman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062216996
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review

First Family

First Family PDF Author: Cassandra A. Good
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369733088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken stepgrandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War. While it’s widely known in America that George and Martha Washington never had children of their own, few are aware that they raised numerous children together. In First Family, we see Washington as a father figure, as well as meet the children he helped raise and trace their complicated roles in American history. The children of Martha Washington’s son by her first marriage—Eliza, Patty, Nelly and Wash Custis—were born into life in the public eye. Raised in the country’s first “first family,” they remained well-known as Washington’s family and keepers of his legacy throughout their lives. By turns petty and powerful, glamorous and cruel, the Custises used Washington as a means to enhance their own power and status. As enslavers committed to the American empire, the Custis family embodied the failures of the American experiment that finally exploded into civil war—all the while being celebrities in a soap opera of their own making. First Family brings new focus and attention to this surprisingly neglected aspect of George Washington’s life and legacy. As the country grapples with concerns about political dynasties and the public role of presidential families, the saga of Washington’s family offers a human story of historical precedent.

Edward Bancroft

Edward Bancroft PDF Author: Thomas J. Schaeper
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300171714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a scientist and a man of letters. In recognition of his works in natural history, Bancroft was unanimously elected to the Royal Society, and while working to secure French aid for the American Revolution, he became a close associate of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and John Adams. Though lauded in his time as a staunch American patriot, when the British diplomatic archives were opened in the late nineteenth century, it was revealed that Bancroft led a secret life as a British agent acting against French and American interests. In this book, the first complete biography of Bancroft, historian Thomas J. Schaeper reveals the full extent of the agent's deception during the crucial years of the American Revolution. Operating under aliases, working in ciphers, and leaving coded messages in the trees of Paris's Tuileries Gardens, Bancroft filtered information from unsuspecting figures including Franklin and Deane back to his contacts in Britain, navigating a complicated web of political allegiances. Through Schaeper's keen analysis of Bancroft's correspondence and diplomatic records, this biography reveals whether Bancroft should ultimately be considered a traitor to America or a patriot to Britain.

Friends' Quarterly Examiner

Friends' Quarterly Examiner PDF Author:
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Bible Nation

Bible Nation PDF Author: Candida R. Moss
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691198993
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a “Bible nation” The Greens of Oklahoma City—the billionaire owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores—are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible’s influence on American society. In Bible Nation, Candida Moss and Joel Baden provide the first in-depth investigative account of the Greens’ sweeping Bible projects. Moss and Baden tell the story of the Greens’ efforts to place a Bible curriculum in public schools; their rapid acquisition of an unparalleled collection of biblical antiquities; their creation of a closely controlled group of scholars to study and promote the collection; and their construction of a $500 million Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Revealing how all these initiatives promote a very particular set of beliefs about the Bible, the book raises serious questions about the trade in biblical antiquities, the integrity of academic research, and the place of private belief in public life.

Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Kalamazoo, Michigan

Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Kalamazoo, Michigan PDF Author:
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Category : Kalamazoo (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Family Purchases of Selected Frozen Fruits and Vegetables

Family Purchases of Selected Frozen Fruits and Vegetables PDF Author: Robert Bacon Reese
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Category : Frozen fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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