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The Authentic Life of Billy the - Pat F. Garrett; Fredrick Nolan
More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Auth... -
Summer of Fire - Linda Jacobs
Product DescriptionIt is 1988, and Yellowstone Park is on fire. Among the thousands of summer warriors battling to save America’s crown jewel, is single mother Clare Chance. Having... -
Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight - Gyles Brandreth
SUMMARY: London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the... -
One Day - David Nicholls
SUMMARY: It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after onl... -
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain; Bill Mckibben
ReviewMemoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from it... -
Lethal Passage_ The Story of a - Erik Larson
This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high scho... -
Krakatoa_ The Day the World Exp - Simon Winchester
SUMMARY:Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, w... -
Journey to the Heart of Luna - Andy Frankham-Allen
Product DescriptionUntreed Reads is proud to present SPACE: 1889 & BEYOND, a brand-new series of books based on the award-winning steampunk role-playing game created by Frank Chadw... -
Going Dutch_ How England Plunde - Lisa Jardine
From Publishers WeeklyEngland's almost bloodless Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the Dutch king William of Orange overthrew James II, began as a hostile takeover but rapidly ... -
Ecce Homo (the Autobiography of - Friedrich Nietzsche; Anthony M
SUMMARY: Written in 1888 just before the final years of insanity that would plague Friedrich Nietzsche until his death in 1900, "Ecce Homo" is an insightful reflection by the autho...