Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America

After years of standing against the U.S. government, Geronimo, the great warrior and spiritual leader, is coming to the end of his life. His grandson visits him where he is imprisoned, in Fort Sill, Oklakhoma, in 1908, a visit which ignites a story brimming with a little-known, thoroughly researched details about the man who said to "see into the future and walk without creating footprints." In this gripping novel, Joseph Bruchac brings history alive with one of the most legendary and fascinating figures of our time

Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god - the town`s water tower. He recruits an unlikely group of worshippers: his snail-farming best friend, Shin, cute-as-a-button (whatever that means) Magda Price, and the violent and unpredictable Henry Stagg. As their religion grows, it takes on a life of its own. While Jason struggles to keep the faith pure, Shin obsesses over writing their bible, and the explosive Henry schemes to make the new faith even more exciting and dangerous

Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid creatures called Yahoos

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Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin`s now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.

This book contains information about Precolonial Era, colonial Era, american revolution, prograssive era, civil war era, great depression, postwar era, watergate era, internet age

This book provides readers and researchers with brief, accurate, and readable summaries of the most significant and celebrated trials in U.S. history

Considered the greatest satire ever written in English, Jonathan Swift`s Gulliver`s Travels chronicles the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, principally to four marvelous realms: Lilliput, where the people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa, a wondrous flying island; and a country where the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, are served by savage humanoid areatures called Yahoos