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U.S.A.: LET FREEDOM RING1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
1776 by David McCullough
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus Bordewich
The Civil War by Shelby Foote
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Stevenson
Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Johm Berendt
No Ordinary Times: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front on World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
The River of Doubt: Theadore Rooselvelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Shadow Divers: The True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everyrhing to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of Worls War IIby Robert Kurson
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll
A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House by Arthur M. Schlesinger
Undaunted Courage: Mertwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
U.S.A.: let freedom ringWorld: events the rocked the globe
MEMOIRS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: THAT'S MY STORY, AND I'M STICKING TO ITThe Andy Warhol Diaries: Andy Warhol
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhoos by Alexandra Fuller
Dreams of my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Wall
I Know Why the Caged Bired Sings By Maya Angelou
Julie and Julia 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living by Julie Powell
A Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected LIfe by Queen Noor
Madame Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albfight
Me: Stories of My Life by Katherine Hepburn
My American Hourney by Colin L. Powel
My Life in France by Julia Child
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other THings I've Learned by Alan Alda
Personal History by Katherine Graham
A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir by Azar Nafisi
The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Saving Grace: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers By Elizabeth Edwards
Seldom DisappointedL A Memoir
Tender at the Bones: Growing Up at the Table
The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Wild Swans: Three Daughter of China by Jung Chang
BIOGRAPHIES: REAL STORIES ABOUT REAL PEOPLEAva Gardner: "Love is Nothing" by Lees Server
Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by Donald Spoto
The Life of the Party by Christopher Ogden
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Lindbergh: A Life by A. Scott Berg
Marilyn Momroe by Barbara Leaming
Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
My Lady Scandalous: The Amazing Life and Outrageous Times of Grace Dalrymple Elliot, Royal Courtesan by Jo Manning
Nicholas and Alexandra By Robert K. Massie
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
Profiles in Courage: Decisive Moments in the Lives of Celebrated Americans by John F. Kenenedy
Roots by Alex Haley
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Son of Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow
To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson
Truman by David M. McMullough
Biographies: real stories about real peopleMemoirs and autobiographies: that's my story, and I'm sticking to it
I was unsure about this book about Sarah Agnes Prine. It started out well her family resettling to Texas they meet 2 other families and travel together then her brother Clover dies from a snake bite, then they are attacked by Indians, her dad is shot some of the others in the Wagon train are killed and they have to cut off her brother Ernest leg so he will not die, then Sarah and some other girls are attacked by outlaws and Sarah has to kill the outlaws, then the Indians steal all their horses but Sarah's, then when they reach San Angelo her Papa dies from a fever and her Mama goes a little crazy from the lost. All this and we are only on page 21. But I keep reading and then something happened that made me think are these people nuts. They decide to go back to the Ariziona Terriortory they just came from. But then the Prines meet Captain Jack Elliot and they are in a big wagon train this time. And Sarah outshoots some boys and then gives them their gun back saying its not worth much they are attacked by Indians again and I am about to give up on this book because now we are only on page 43 when Sarah does the one thing that makes me realise that this is an awesome book and it is now one of my favorites. She finds an abandoned covered wagon full of books and decides to keep it. I must say that even though I respected all those relatives of mine that traveled in covered wagons for a better life I now have more respect for them.
MORE GREAT READS: DUSTY TRAILS TO YOUThe Buffalo Soliders by John Prebble
Comanche Captives by Fred Grove
by Douglas C. Jones
Cripple Creek Bonanza by Chet Cunningham
The Day the Cowboys Quit by Elmer Kelton
Desrty Rides Again by Max Brand
From Where the Sun Now Stands by Will Henery
Gold in California by Todhunter Ballard
The Gunfighter's Apprentice by Jerry S. Drake
A Hanging in Sweetwater by Stephen Overholser
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall
The Kincaids by Matt Braun
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Mattie by Judy Alter
Moontrap by Don Berry
The Nameless Breed by Will C. Brown
Nickajack by Robert J. Conley
Panather in the Shyby James Alexander Thom
Prophet Annie by Ellen Recknot
The Shootist by Glendon Swarthout
St. Agnes Stand by Tom Eidson
Stone Song: A novel of the Life of Crazy Horse by Win Blevins
Summer of Pearls by Mike Blakely
Trail of the Spanish Bit by Don Coldsmith
The Trail of Ogallala by Benjamin Capps
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Undertaker's Wife by Loren D. Estleman
The Wolf Is My Brother by Chad Oliver
CLASSICS: OLD, BUT NOT OLD HATThe Big Sky by Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Hondo by Louis L'Amour
Lonesome Dove by Larry McmUrry
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Tilburg Clark
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Somewhere They Die by L.P. Holmes
The Violent Land by Wayne D. Overholser
Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
Classics: old, but not old hatMore great reads: dusty trails to you
Bridget rocked both sides of the Atlantic
it took we awhile before I actually read it also but when the movie came out i decided to read it.
I have not read the Alex Cross books but I have read the Womens Murder club books
I am a big fan of this book as well as all the books Phillia Gregory wrote about the Tudor Women
This book was a lot of fun to read. The whole thing is writen in the form of emails, IMs, phone messages, interdepartment memos, dispostions and Kate's Journal. There is even a section where Kate and Jen are in a meeting and they are writting notes back and forth on what appers to be the agenda for the meeting. If you have ever worked in corporate America or want a good laugh on how we communicate in todays electronic world. I highly reccommend this book.
I enjoyed this book. I thought it was entertaining and complex.
This is a touching story of redemption and how people are not always what they seem. I am a fan of Anna Quindlen books they are touching and honest without being crude.
I am not ashamand to say that this books changed my life. Ok not my life but it defintly changed me. I love it and I read it at least once a year. How could you not love Bridget when there is a little of her in all of us
Shazzy we all know that you day dream about Ranger.
my library doesn have it
This is the book to read for anyone who had an unnatural obession with The Sopranos. This book changed a lot for AMerica without it we would not have athat wonderful horse head in the bed scene and all the copycuts that followed. This is a favorite of mine
