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A life-changing journey intertwining high romance, gastronomy, and an unsurpassable joie de vivre for readers of Julie and Julia and My Paris Kitchen.
Susan's life would never be the same after she meets Peter Buckley. A man who was larger than life, Peter pulls Susan out of her comfort zone to taste the fine life, literally. Together they embark on a rollicking adventure through Michelin-starred restaurants in France to the souks of Morocco and...
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Experience 20 great moments in American history-from the 1631 quest of Christian libertarian Roger Williams to the 1988 ordeal of Sudanese refugee Peter Malual. -Battle Redcoats with Continental soldier-in-disguise Deborah Sampson (1782). -Pay freedom's price 16 times with devoted freedman Frank McWhorter (1795). -Brave a thousand-mile trek with runaway slaves William and Ellen Craft (1845). -Blast a path through the mountains with the Central Pacific's...
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Experience important moments in history with 20 young Americans-from the thrilling adventures of Powhatan's favorite daughter in 1607 to the horrifying day the Twin Towers fell in 2001. - Feel the evil in the Salem air with Massachusetts resident Ann Putnam (1692). - Battle Redcoats on Long Island with Yankee Doodle soldier Joseph Martin (1776). - Gallop across deadly terrain with Pony Express rider Nick Wilson (1846). - Brave prairie dangers with...
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As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how...