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  Bound for Canaan - The...

  Fergus Bordewich

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  An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change. 
  The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and courageous whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal law. 
  Meticulously researched and uncommonly engaging, Bound for Canaan shows why it was the Underground Railroad and not the civil rights movement that gave birth to this country's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change. 
  Written and read by Fergus M. Bordewic

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  Watergate: The Scandal That...

  Editors Charles River

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  Increasingly and mistakenly viewed as a single scandal within the United States government, what is commonly referred to as the Watergate scandal serves as an overarching term for a series of scandals beginning in 1971 and extending through 1974, although more than any other, it refers to the specific break-in at the Watergate Hotel and office complex in Washington, D.C. The crisis, originating in a secretive battle between the two major political parties, the Nixon White House’s paranoia, and the ensuing conflict concerning the release of confidential information to the public, induced senior government officials into committing crimes (most notoriously petty burglary) and coverups for the purposes of character assassination and inter-political espionage, and it ultimately resulted in the first and only resignation of a sitting American president, Richard Milhous Nixon. Watergate has since become so synonymous with scandal that “gate” is typically added to the end of words associated with scandals even today. 
  	In the wake of the seemingly peculiar burglary, gradual media and judicial pursuits of the thread of scandals led from one thing to another over the following years until it began to culminate with Congressional impeachment proceedings and a momentous showdown between the President and the Supreme Court over the release of presidential tapes, a moment in which Nixon seriously considered defying the Court and initiating a constitutional crisis. When he at last surrendered them, excerpts were blatantly missing, most famously an 18 minute stretch. Given the flurry of activities, it has only been in recent years that historians have gained a full measure of the nation’s perilous status during the intense battle between the various branches of the federal government, and the American public’s view of government in general took a decidedly negative turn.

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  Summary of Michael T Flynn's The...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Michael T. Flynn's The Field of Fight's assessment of where the United States is failing in its fight against extremism and offers a strategic formula for how to proceed in the future. After decades of serving his country in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Flynn has developed an expert’s perspective on what he perceives to be the government’s failures. He offers several solutions for how to prevent radical Islam from forever taking hold around the world. 
  Time and again, the United States has not prepared adequately for conflict and war. In times of relative stability and peace, American leaders often fail to drill down on policy and strategy to develop innovative ways to combat emerging enemies. The prominence of radical Islam and its fight against Western values is a testament to the fact that the…

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  The Storm of Steel

  Ernst Jünger

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  The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1.  
  Storm of Steel is the memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger, based on his time fighting on the Western Front in the First World War from December 1914 to August 1918. The book describes trench warfare in blunt, often disturbing detail. Jünger writes about constant shelling, patrols, injuries, and the everyday strain of life at the front. 
  Readers have interpreted the book in different ways. Some see it as a straightforward record of a soldier’s experience. Others read it as praise for courage and endurance in battle. Many take it as an anti-war account because of how clearly it shows the brutality and danger of modern warfare. 
  The memoir does not push a single message. Instead, it presents the reality Jünger saw and leaves the reader to decide what that reality means.

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  Dressed and Oppressed 2 - Tulle...

  Jane Fox

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  Sally's being fitted for a bridesmaid's dress, but her boyfriend Trip is being a nightmare about it! But the seamstress of the shop brings out a little gift to put Trip in his place: A form-fitting gown that shapes him like a woman. With him in his new dress, Sally and her best friend Joan make Trip into "the weaker sex"...leading to a wedding where bridesmaid Trip will be the star of a very humiliating show.

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  Matt's Mistake - Level Two

  Di Taylor

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  Dolphins Readers are interactive graded readers specially designed to make developing language skills fun for younger learners. Full-color illustrations and cross-curricular content stimulate students' interest and maintain their attention, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language points in an entertaining context. Integrated activities for every page of story text encourage students to practice newly acquired language skills.
  An Oxford Press Audio production.

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