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Propelled by the discovery of an ancient book and a cache ofyellowing letters, a young woman plunges into a labyrinth where thesecrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: thedark reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that mayhave kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for thethe truth becomes an adventure of monumental propportions, takingus from monasteries and dusty libraries to the captitals of EasternEurope - in a feat of storytelling so rich, so exciting, sosuspenseful that it has enthralled readers around he world.
For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or Southrivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spyfor the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendarybeauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause shevalued more than life itself. In this superb portrait, biographerAnn Blackman tells the surprising true story of a unique woman inhistory. “I am a Southern woman, born with revolutionary blood in myveins,” Rose once declared–and that fiery spirit would plunge herinto the center of power and the thick of adventure. Born into aslave-holding family, Rose moved to Washington, D.C., as a youngwoman and soon established herself as one of the capital’s mostcharming and influential socialites, an intimate of John C.Calhoun, James Buchanan, and Dolley Madison. She married well, bore eight children and buried five, and, atthe height of the Gold Rush, accompanied her husband RobertGreenhow to San Francisco. Widowed after Robert died in a tragic
Here is an oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-threeAmerican soldiers who fought it. A 1983 American Book Awardnominee.
With the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, once againAmerica's men and women who have seen war close-up are suddenlyexpected to return seamlessly to civilian life. In Flashback, PennyColeman tells the cautionary and timely story of posttraumaticstress disorder in the hope that we can sensitively assist thoseveterans who return from combat in need of help, and the familiesstruggling to support them.