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Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

by Ann Durkin Keating

Published: 2012-08-15

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. Aft...

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The Risk of Being Ridiculous

by Guy Maynard

Published: 2010-10-01

Paperback: 298 pages

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It's Boston 1969 and nineteen-year-old Ben Tucker lives in a funky apartment on Mountfort Street with his tribe of fellow long-haired freaks. Together they mix radical street politics, a love of rock of roll, and celebratory drug use in their desperate search for lives that make sense in ...

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The Risk Pool

by Richard Russo

Published: 1989

Hardcover: 496 pages

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Risky Business

by Suzanne Macpherson

Published: 2002-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Rites of Spring (Break)

by Diana Peterfreund

Published: 2008-06-24

Paperback: 356 pages

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From ?witty and endearing? to ?impossible to put down,? the critics have given elite marks to Diana Peterfreund's Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose. Now, in a wildly captivating new novel, Amy ?Bugaboo? Haskel and her fellow Rose & Grave knights are trading cold, gray, hyperintellectu...

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Rival to the Queen

by Carolly Erickson

Published: 2011-08-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettice Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man. Powerful and dramatic, this is the story of the only woman to ever ...

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Rival's Desire (Kimani Romance)

by Altonya Washington

Published: 2008-08-01

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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Sultry singer Vivian Desmond would do anything for her grandmother?anything but work with her childhood enemy, Caesar Morrison. He's all grown up, but the famous pro athlete still enjoys getting under her skin. Now their matchmaking grandmothers think handing over the family business will ...

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Riven

by Jerry B. Jenkins

Published: 2009-01-05

Paperback: 544 pages

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A boy with a troubled childhood . . . becomes a reluctant criminal . . . becomes a broken man on death row who just wants to die. A failed pastor . . . rejected by those he only wants to help . . . finds a new calling. Thomas Carey and Brady Wayne Darby couldn't be more different. One is a washed-up...

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The River Beyond the World: A Novel

by Janet Peery

Published: 1997-09-15

Paperback: 304 pages

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Luisa Cantu is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient ofigin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex rel...

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The River Cottage Meat Book

by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Published: 2007-05

Hardcover: 544 pages

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First published in the United Kingdom, THE RIVER COTTAGE MEAT BOOK quickly became an underground hit among food cognoscenti around the world. Now tailored for American cooks, this loving, authoritative, and galvanizing ode to good meat is one part manifesto on high-quality, local, and sustainable...