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The Red Ribbon (True Colors #8)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context
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Selected Poems
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Oliver Tractors
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The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States
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Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex. Scholars working in this area...

A Dream of Death
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On a remote Scottish island, American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton wrestles with her own past while...
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Lindsay (1760 KP) rated Genteel Secrets in Books
Apr 9, 2019
I was have been born in the northern part of the civil war. Making me not have slaves. I would not be a slave owner. To me that owing other human beings is something which never happened. I am not one that ignore the fact that it happen though.
I would have let slaves be humans but that me. I know about my civil war in my American history. Genteel Secrets is about a woman that is forced to be a confederacy spy. It tell as story of someone that is against slavery but is born in the south and raised with slaves. It also tell the story of a Pinkerton detective.
The author does a good job portray what Washington and what some folk trying to help the south and some important events and people with helping the South win the Civil war. They seem to be against the government and Lincoln.
Will a northerner and Southern belle be able to survive and live a happy life? You will need to read to find out. If you are into American history this is also a good book to tell about south culture and a bit of the beginning of the Civil War.

The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s
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In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure...