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The Blue Tattoo: The Life... by Margot S. Mifflin

The biography of a 19th-century Mormon pioneer who became a celebrity after she was captured, raised, and tattooed on the...
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Personal Record: A Love Affair... by Rachel Toor

Rachel Toor was a bookish egghead who ran only to catch a bus.
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THE ENTIRE EARTH AND SKY:... by Leslie Carol Roberts

More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers,...
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Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two... by Daryl Farmer

On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so...
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Bicycling Beyond the Divide by Daryl Farmer

On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so...
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Because a Fire Was in... by Lynn M. Stegner

Kate Riley is not the sort of heroine we meet in most American novels.
Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby

Rebel: The Life and Times... by Kevin H Siepel

Rebel is the first complete biography of the Confederacy’s best-
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Chief Bender's Burden by Tom Swift

The greatest American Indian baseball player of all time, Charles Albert Bender, was, according to a contemporary, "the coolest pitcher...