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A exciting new biography of America's first lady of flight.
As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in trying new and risky things, once even building a roller-coaster in her grandparents' backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while watching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when she took her first airplane ride.
At age 24 she earned her pilot's wings and 1928 took part in the transatlantic "Friendship"...
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He's all kinds of man. But is he a family man? It's good to be home! But civilian life isn't easy for Mark Delaney. The former surf champ copes by carving California waves and working solo as the handyman for his family's beachfront hotel. Until Laurel Prescott, pretty owner of the new B and B-and widowed mother of three-asks for his help. One small task leads to another and another, and suddenly Mark is knee-deep in kids, responsibility…and a...
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A marriage pact, sixteen years in the making.
The vow was simple. If they were single by the time they made lieutenant colonel, they'd marry. On the day of her promotion, Juliet Grayson is at Evan Stephens's door to ask him to keep his promise. Juliet only needs a father figure for her son, but Evan hopes to be so much more. Can he convince a woman who's been burned before to get close to the flame once again?
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In 1849, 11-year-old John Muir immigrated from Scotland to America. Here, he rose from farmer and sawmill worker to become a noted authority on the botany, glaciers, and forestry of the nation's wilderness. Best known for his long association with the Yosemite Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Muir also explored, mostly afoot, the southern States, Alaska, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert. His studies of nature took him around...
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From a USA Today–bestselling author: surprised to learn he has twins, a marine moves in with the nanny and gets a crash course in fatherhood and love.
Marine Liam Madison has always been focused on serving his country. But when he learns that he's the father of orphaned four-year-old twins, service takes on a whole new meaning. Fortunately, the kids' loving, gorgeous nanny, Dani Cooper, is by his side every step of the way as he learns the ropes....
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What happens when your internet crush...
Shows up in real life?
First Lieutenant Thane Carter has experienced great success as the senior platoon leader of a military police company at Fort Hood. But tbh, his love life stinks. Thane wishes his maddening-and off-limits-new coworker, Lieutenant Chloe Michaels, could be more like his online friend "BallerinaBaby." It's complicated, all right-especially when Thane learns that his workplace nemesis and...
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Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) defied the conventions of her era. Born and raised on a farm in Oswego, New York, Walker became one of a handful of female physicians in the nation-and became a passionate believer in the rights of women.
Despite the derision of her contemporaries, Walker championed freedom of dress. She wore slacks--or "bloomers" as they were popularly known--rather than the corsets and voluminous ground-dragging petticoats and dresses...
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After a Vegas wedding, she loses her memory but may still end up with a winning hand in this charming military romance from the USA Today–bestselling author.
2019 Rita Award Finalist
They have ninety days before the state of Texas will grant these strangers a divorce from their impetuous Vegas wedding. Captain Helen Pallas is certain she's not cut out for marriage. And Captain Tom Cross doesn't believe in love. Yet working in the same unit-and...
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Swapping houses for Christmas vacation brought a gift she never imagined in this engaging military romance from the USA Today–bestselling author.
While Fort Hood, Texas, isn't exactly the City of Lights, Major India Woods discovers its hottest attraction-Major Aidan Nord-lives right next door! And they happily enjoy a little no-strings mischief under the mistletoe. Until India discovers Aidan is seeing other women-his adorable twin girls, that...
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Chief Joseph (1840-1904) became a legend due to his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in Oregon's Wallowa Valley despite a treaty that ordered them onto a reservation in Idaho. In 1877, when the US army forced the Nez Percé away from their lands, Joseph led his tribespeople on a 1,500-mile, four-month flight from western Idaho across Montana, through Yellowstone National Park and Wyoming, toward safety in Canada.
During this journey,...
13) Cesar Chavez
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Profiles the Mexican American labor leader who helped create the United Farm Workers union to protect the rights of migrant agricultural laborers.
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Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor landowner and surveyor to become America's first national hero. With little military training he led the thirteen fledgling colonies through six years of grueling war against formidable British forces, steered the proceedings...
16) Chief Joseph
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Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce tribe, lived from 1840 to 1904. He became a legend through his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in Oregon's Wallowa Valley. For years he tried to accommodate encroaching white men on his tribal lands, but finally gave up and attempted, in the fall of 1877, to lead his people safely to Canada. Born in 1840, Joseph was present at the signing of the 1855 treaty, which allowed the tribe to hold on to a...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Heroes Proved, a moving collection of straightforward, honest testimonials to the courage American troops display on and off the battlefield.
For more than a dozen years, combat-decorated Marine Oliver North and his award-winning documentary team from FOX News Channel's War Stories traveled to the frontlines of the War on Terror to profile the dedicated men and women who serve our nation. This time, he...
18) Geronimo
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Geronimo earned his place in the pantheon of Native American heroes by standing up for his people, even in the face of punishment. Though he never regained his tribe's lands from the US government, he is remembered by many Apache for his leadership and courage. Readers learn about Geronimo's fight for Apache territory as well as his early life in the present-day American Southwest. Historical images of him and early Native American reservations enhance...
19) Red Jacket
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Red Jacket is remembered as a great speaker who stood up for the Seneca tribe and their territory following the American Revolution. He worked with the Founding Fathers, including George Washington and John Adams, to secure a future for his people in the new United States. Readers discover a piece of Native American history through the biography of Red Jacket. The main content includes both events of his life as well as understandable historical context....
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November is Native American Heritage month!
Osceola, Cochise, and Tecumseh are three Native American heroes who fought valiantly for their land and for their people. This book is divided into three parts--each part recounting the life of one of these great heroes. Their true stories are emotionally gripping and tragic, and Ann McGovern handles delicate topics, such as violence and racism, expertly for young readers. The narrative text is supplemented...
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