Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Spain in our hearts Spain in our hearts Adam Hochschild,Adam Hochschild For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist u… OL17863771W
So happiness to meet you So happiness to meet you Karin Esterhammer "After job losses, the author and her family start over in a most unlikely place: a 9-foot-wide back-alley house in one of Ho Chi Minh City's poorest districts, where neighbors unabashedly stare into… OL19713258W
Kick Kick Paula Byrne "Filled with a wealth of revealing new material and insight, the biography of the vivacious, unconventional--and nearly forgotten--young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English ar… OL20032295W
American Taboo American Taboo Philip Weiss,Philip Weiss In 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was Deborah Gardner — a beautiful twenty-three-year-old who, in the following year, would be stabbed tw… OL2973463W
The lost colony of the Confederacy The lost colony of the Confederacy Eugene C. Harter The first book to focus upon the immigration of Southerners to Brazil after the Civil War. The author is the descendant of Confederates who took part in the great Confederate migration in the 1860s. … OL4453452W
Path of Empire Path of Empire Aims McGuinness xiii, 249 p : 23 cm OL9566972W
The forsaken The forsaken Tim Tzouliadis The story of a little-known group of émigrés, Americans who went to Russia during the 1930s in the hope that the Communist promise of a better life was a reality--only to find xenophobia, paranoia an… OL9936234W