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Author
Publisher
Books Fluent
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sarah B. Cochran probably didn't expect to own businesses that competed with Henry Clay Frick's or to exceed Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic giving in certain circles. But when her husband and son died suddenly, she had to take over the family coal and coke business at a time when it was illegal, and some thought unlucky, for women to work in or around coal mines. Rather than retreating from the world, from her forties through her seventies she engaged...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Simon & Schuster paperback edition, Updated edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
lxii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains the dramatic text of William Shakespeare's tragic play about the forbidden love between two young people from feuding Veronese houses, and includes commentary, notes, and details about the life of the author.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West, the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Physical Desc
xiv, 336 pages : illustrations, 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names--businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury,...