James: 29360 books
by James Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
By June 1941, Germany’s war machine looked to be unstoppable. The Nazi blitzkrieg had taken Poland, France, and Holland with shocking speed. The Luftwaffe had bombed London, while German U-boats wrought havoc on Allied shipping on the Atlantic. And yet, as James Holland shows at the start of The...
by Seeley James
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Why would a billionaire smuggle terrorists into the country?
On a mission to free enslaved Iraqi friends, Jacob Stearne feels good about liberating an American held with them. Then he learns the American leads a terrorist cell. The man vanishes. Scrambling after his mistake from Latin America...
by James Marten
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships,...
by James A. Michener
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
James A. Michener, the acclaimed author of sweeping historical blockbusters, chronicles his personal involvement in one of the most dramatic elections of the twentieth century: the presidential race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. A relative newcomer to politics, Michener served as the...
by Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, John Bull
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consolation For The Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). John Bull Washington Irving (1783-1859)....
The Collected Works of James Willard Schultz
In the Great Apache Forest, With the Indians in the Rockies, Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot, Sinopah the Indian Boy, The War-Trail Fort, My Life as an Indian
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859-1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the Blackfeet Indians. He operated a fur trading post at Carroll, Montana and lived among the Pikuni tribe during the period 1880-82. He was given the name Apikuni...
C.S.S. Shenandoah
The Memoirs of Lieutenant Commanding James I. Waddell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The last shot of the Civil War was fired, not on an obscure battlefield, but in the ice-locked Sea of Okhotsk off Siberia seven months after Lee’s surrender.
The last armed Confederate cruiser was the C.S.S. Shenandoah, a beautiful but dangerous vessel which scattered and burned the New Bedford...
Benedict Arnold's Navy
The Ragtag Fleet That Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
An epic story of one man’s devotion to the American cause
In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold’s treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between British forces and a swift end to the American...
by James Robert Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Two steamboats were each making their weekly trips to Tuscaloosa and back. Parents and friends came and went. The least expression of a need, to the folks at home brought the wished for articles. Nothing was too good for the boys at the front and fish and oysters were abundant in season. The latter...
The Federalist
The Gideon Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, constitutes a text central to the American political tradition. Written and published in newspapers in 1787 and 1788 to explain and promote ratification of the proposed Constitution for the United States, which were then bound by...
by Alastair Gunn, William Mudford, John Yonge Akerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the ninth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 9 in the series contains stories published between 1841 and 1899,...
The American Commonwealth
Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
In Democracy in America (1835) the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville interpreted American society through the lens of democratic political theory. A half-century later the Scotsman James Bryce examined “the institutions and the people of America as they are.” Bryce presented his findings in The...
by Damien Broderick, John Glasby, James C. Glass
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
In Damien Broderick’s haunting tale, “The Meek,” the survivors of humanity’s drive toward racial suicide must pay an awful price for their continued survival. John Glasby’s “Innsmouth Bane” tells how the alien entity Dagon first came to nineteenth-century America. In “Helen’s Last...
The Border Outlaws
An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Most Noted Bandits of Ancient or Modern Times, the Younger Brothers, Jesse and Frank James, and Their Comrades in Crime
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Border Outlaws is a classic book on the Frank and Jesse James and the James-Younger gang.