Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (Foner Eric)(Paperback)

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (Foner Eric)(Paperback)

More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched institution, slavery

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Hopkinson Deborah)(Paperback)

An inspiring tale of creativity and determination on the Underground Railroad from Coretta Scott King Award winner James Ransome and acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson. Clara, a slave and seamstress on Home Plantation, dreams of freedom--not just for herself, but for her family and friends. When

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Levine Ellen)(Pevná vazba)

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems

Underground Railroad - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback / softback)

Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most;

John Henry Days (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of 'The Underground Railroad', Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. 'John Henry Days' is a novel of extraordinary scope and mythic power. It established Colson Whitehead as a pre-eminent American writer

Zone One (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadA pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living

The Intuitionist (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback)

This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.It is a time of

John Henry Days (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback)

From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is 'funny and wise and sumptuously written' (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).Colson Whitehead's triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of

Zone One (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. - 'One of the best books of the year.'

Operation Toussaint (Ballard Tim)(Paperback)

The compelling true story of Operation Toussaint, an Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) sex trafficking raid in

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback)

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys - 'Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.' --The Boston GlobeIn 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in

Underground Railroad - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback / softback)

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from

The Nickel Boys (Whitehead Colson)(Paperback)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. - 'One of the most gifted novelists in America

The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (Foner Eric)(Paperback)

Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into

Hidden History of the New Hampshire Seacoast (Nelson Terry)(Paperback)

The New Hampshire Seacoast has a wealth of overlooked history - some remnants are hidden in plain sight, while others are just plain hidden.Meet the minister and early religious founder who was involved in an armed confrontation in Dover with another preacher in 1640. Find out how a one-time high

Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (Foner Eric)(Paperback)

From the 'preeminent historian of Reconstruction' (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's 'masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history' (New Republic) redefined how the

What Strange Paradise (Akkad Omar El)(Paperback)

For fans of &i>Exit West &/i>and &i>The Underground Railroad&/i> and from the widely acclaimed author of &i>American War &/i>comes a profoundly moving novel examining the global refugee crisis through a childs

Bunker Research - The hidden history of modernism in the mountains (Leonard Max)(Paperback / softback)

Book of English Magic (Heygate Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The hidden history of English

Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (English Richard)(Paperback)

Union Pacific Railroad (Billingsley Richard)(Paperback)

One of the giants of American railroading, the Union Pacific Railroad serves a huge swathe of the Mid and Western United States, from the Great Lakes and the Deep South to the Pacific coast. The vast array of locomotives - over 8,000 - and diversity of loads combined with ever-changing scenery make

Passage of Arms (Ambler Eric)(Paperback / softback)

Girija stumbles on a cache of arms hidden during the communist insurgency. Selling the arms will help Girija achieve his lifelong dream of founding a transport company. Two American tourists in the Far East find more adventure than they bargained for when they get entangled in Girija's

The Flip Side of History: (Trivia Book, Hidden Facts) (Silverman Steve)(Paperback)

Hidden History, Strange Stories, and Hard-to-Believe Headlines What if there was a flip side to the history channel? What would you do with all the historical facts and tales left out of history textbooks? From the host of the popular Useless Information podcast, Steve Silverman, comes a collection

Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (Kurlander Eric)(Paperback)

The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany--the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power '[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media.'--Michael Dirda, The Washington