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From Battlefields Rising: How The Civil War Transformed American Literature

by Randall Fuller

Published: 2011-01-03

Hardcover: 272 pages

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When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social landscape. Pri...

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From Bauhaus to Our House

by Tom Wolfe

Published: 1999-10-05

Paperback: 128 pages

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In this book Tom Wolfe traces the roots of the modern architectural movement and suggests ideas for its future. He asks why we have not got the architecture we deserve, and launches an attack on the hideous follies of modern architecture.

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From Beginning to End:: The Rituals of Our Lives

by Robert Fulghum

Published: 1995-03-28

Hardcover: 273 pages

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America's most beloved philosopher and essayist draws from his ministerial background to celebrate "the unnameable wonder and mystery of life, " teaching readers how to create their own personally meaningful ceremonies while being gathered in a universal and ebullient embrace. Illustrations.

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From Beirut to Jerusalem

by Thomas Friedman

Published: 1998-10-19

Paperback: 608 pages

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This revised edition of the number-one bestseller and winner of the 1989 National Book Award includes the Pulitzer Prize Winning author's new, updated epilogue.

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From Cape Town with Love: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel

by Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes

Published: 2010-05-18

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 8)

by Charlaine Harris

Published: 2009-03-31

Mass Market Paperback: 321 pages

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After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit, Sookie Stackhouse is safe but dazed, yearning for things to get back to normal. But her boyfriend Quinn is among the missing. And things are changing, whether the weres and vamps in her corner...

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From Dust and Ashes: A Story of Liberation (The Liberator Series, Book 4)

by Tricia Goyer

Published: 2003-01-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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It is 1945 and a group of American soldiers liberate a Nazi concentration camp. Helene is the abandoned wife of an SS guard who has fled to avoid arrest. Overcome by guilt, she begins to help meet the needs of survivors. Throughout the process, she finds her own liberation - from spiritual bondage, sin,...

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From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America

by Steven V. Roberts

Published: 2009-10-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Steven V. Roberts follows the stories of thirteen families in this poignant, eye-opening look at immigration in America today. America is a nation of immigrants. But what does it mean to be an immigrant in the United States today? In some ways, the expe...

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From Here to Eternity

by James Jones

Published: 1998-10-20

Paperback: 864 pages

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Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941.  Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler.  But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him.  First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than alm...

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From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justice)

Published: 2006-05-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Since 1976, over forty percent of prisoners executed in American jails have been African American or Hispanic. This trend shows little evidence of diminishing, and follows a larger pattern of the violent criminalization of African American populations that has marked the country's history ...