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In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging...
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"Talk of impending war is a steady drumbeat throughout North Carolina, though Joetta McBride pays it little heed. She and her husband, Ennis, have built a modest but happy life for themselves, raising two sons, fifteen-year-old Henry, and eleven-year-old Robert, on their small subsistence farm. They do not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, but Joetta considers her family to be neutral, believing this is simply not their fight. Her opinion...
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At the outset of the Civil War, Florida's entire population was only a bit larger than present-day Gainesville. Still, the state played an outsized role in the conflict. Floridians fought for the Union and Confederate armies. Sunshine State farmers provided beef and other foodstuffs for the Confederacy, rations that proved increasingly consequential as the years wore on. The battles of Olustee and Natural Bridge, where boys from the West Florida Seminary...
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Balanced and in-depth military coverage (all theaters, North and South) in a non-partisan format with detailed notes, offering meaty, in-depth articles, original maps, photos, columns, book reviews, and indexes.
126th NY Infantry at Harpers Ferry — First Confederate Regiment from Santa Rosa to Chickamauga — Long road to Bentonville — Book reviews — complete list of contents and index for Volume One.
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2021.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865, ten-year-old Eli and other newly freed slaves gather to honor the memory of fallen Union soldiers, an event considered to be one of the first celebrations of what is now called Memorial Day. Includes author's note.
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"In theaftermath of the Civil War, a young woman searches for her lost love at the edge of the West. The Civil War has destroyed Sarah Montgomery's marriage before it's even begun. After Sarah receives word that her fiance, Rand Campbell, has been killed fighting for the Union, her brothers and ailing father persuade her to pledge herself to Ben Croftner--despite her strong misgivings. But when Sarah finds out that Rand is in fact alive--and that...
8) Never sleep
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"The year is 1861, the eve of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. For Kate Warn, the first female private detective in American history, the only assignment tougher than exposing a conspiracy to assassinate the new president is training her new mentee, Hattie McLaughlin, in the art of detection. The two women's mission to save the president takes them from the granges of rural Maryland to the heart of secessionist high society, and sets them on a collision...
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La presente obra fue diseñada con el propósito de incrementar el conocimiento jurídico del lector, tanto desde el punto de vista doctrinario, como práctico-funcional. Siendo la Responsabilidad Civil una materia significativa en el desarrollo del Derecho moderno, su análisis debe abarcar distintas opiniones tendientes a concentrar en un solo libro, la mayor calidad posible comprendiendo las posturas doctrinarias de diferentes autores. El doctor...
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La publicación de esta serie de trabajos es un esfuerzo conjunto realizado por el decano de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Lima y los docentes del curso de Derecho Procesal de esta casa de estudios. Ya desde el 2017 se mostró un interés por promover foros científicos de notable trascendencia que convocaron a importantes académicos nacionales y extranjeros, el cual se materializó en los congresos internacionales de Derecho Civil...
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La irrupción del Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación no sólo trajo aparejados importantes cambios en el campo del derecho privado sustantivo, sino que también constituye la reforma procesal más relevante que se ha llevado a cabo en los últimos 40 años. Este cuerpo normativo ha desencadenado un verdadero proceso de cambio, de reconstrucción, en el derecho adjetivo, tanto para lograr una debida adecuación entre lo material y lo formal, como...
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En nuestro país hay una serie de cuestiones de las que resulta difícil hablar si no se adopta una postura determinada que se da por sentada. El propósito de este libro es analizar algunas de ellas para comprobar si las conclusiones que circulan por la sociedad están realmente basadas en las normas y regulaciones que se citan, y si éstas tienen un respaldo legal y científico concreto.
Son tres los temas a tratar: el aborto, el matrimonio homosexual...
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El ámbito académico de la responsabilidad civil en Colombia requiere de los juiciosos análisis que se incluyen en este libro, que procuran no solo la difusión de ese tópico jurídico, sino el debate abierto y sin cortapisas de lo que, en general, el derecho de daños representa para lograr el ideal jurídico del equilibrio estable de los derechos e intereses humanos.
En esta obra se abordan distintas temáticas de la responsabilidad civil, muy...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2023]
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First edition.
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"A picture book biography of Diane Nash, a Civil Rights Movement leader at the side of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. Born in 1938 in Chicago, Diane went on to take command of the Nashville Movement, leading lunch counter sit-ins and peaceful marches. Diane decides to fight not with anger or violence, but with love. With her strong words of truth and actions, she works to stop segregation"--
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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"A picture book biography about First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's early years and how the challenges she faced early in life helped her become a compassionate public servant and champion of human rights"--
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America's Democracy of Dollars is about a "legal" problem we have today in America. But it is not a law book written for lawyers. Nor is it a political book, taking sides with either conservatives or progressives. It is a book written for us Americans, to aid us in understanding a problem that affects each of us so each of us can chose to do something about it. It is also a book about context, not theory. What is the context of our times? As a society...
18) King: a life
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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First edition.
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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
19) The first ladies
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"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
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Aladdin
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2023.
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First Aladdin hardcover edition.
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A groundbreaking figure in every sense of the word, Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, tending to the wounded soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Afterward, she was a key figure in establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people, opening several dedicated schools in Georgia. Taylor was also one of the first Black women to publish her memoirs....
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