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The Adventures of Oliver Twist
DescriptionThis volume is produced from digital pictures created throughout the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.
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Categories United States   Textbook Buyback   General   Paperback   Printed Books   Dickens, Charles   American Literature   General AAS  
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists recognize her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken not including her knowledge—became one of the much important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead ...
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all.

S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing ...

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ManufacturerScribner
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Civil Disobedience
DescriptionDiscusses duty of individuals to resist government excesses. 1849
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Categories General   Legal History   Constitutions   Ethics & Morality   Political   Kindle Books   Thoreau, Henry David  
Zeitoun (Vintage)
DescriptionA New York Times Notable Book
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A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year
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Kitchen Confidential
DescriptionAn adrenaline-fuelled behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant world in audiobook read by Bourdain himself. Afterwards twenty-five years of -sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine-, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to inform all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant ...
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Categories General   Culinary Arts & Techniques   Essays   New York   Literary Theory   Kindle Books   Bourdain, Anthony  
The Invisible Man (Longman Simplified English Series)
Description Together with his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes concealed behind dark glasses, and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin—the new guest at the Coach and Horses—is at first assumed to be a shy accident victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far extra chilling: he has developed a process this has made him invisible and is locked in a ...
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Life on the Mississippi
Description"Life on the Mississippi" is Mark Twain's depiction of his life on the Mississippi river as a steamboat pilot; beginning together with a brief history of the river, continuing together with a depiction of his early training as a steamboat pilot and following many years later together with a description of his trip on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. Combined together with ...
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
DescriptionA brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s much puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.

From its begin, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel this delivered John Winthrop to the shores of the ...

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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to inform America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.

This P.S. edition ...

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ManufacturerHarper Perennial Modern Classics
Categories Blue Politics   Textbook Buyback   General   Democracy   Paperback   Printed Books   Zinn, Howard   United States   General AAS   Political Ideologies   All product   Books  
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