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  • Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication

    James C. Curtis

    Hardcover (G K Hall, June 1, 1976)
    James C. Curtis has produced a surprisingly good work in "...The Search For Vindication". Given that it is only 194 pages, cover to cover, and that I picked it up for 25 cents at a yard sale, I wasn't expecting a lot. I thought I had read most of what was worth reading about our seventh president, and most of it was excellent, but fairly repetitive in both content and explanation. However, Curtis' title gives a clue to his content, and that the reader will not find just a rehash of history, but also, hopefully, some insight into why this man who was paranoid, angry, lacking in formal education, and in so many other ways totally unqualified to be president is now so well regarded by historians. Not only was Jackson unqualified, he also knew he was unqualified, as he himself stated in 1816 when friends mentioned him as a candidate for president, "Do they think I am such a d----- fool! No sir, I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way; but I am not fit to be President." (page 78) How and why he changed his mind is part of the fascination of his story. ( Amazon customer)

  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

    Jon Krakauer

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Nov. 1, 1997)
    The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and expains why he survived

  • The Patient at Peacocks Hall

    Margery Allingham

    Paperback (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 2000)
    Dr. Ann Fowler is atonished to discover that her new patient is Francia Forde, a film star who stole her fiance a decade before, but the real mystery begins when others find Francia being poisoned by Dr. Fowler's tablets.

  • The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Paperback (G K Hall & Co, Feb. 1, 2000)
    The family of a fierce evangelical Baptist missionary--Nathan Price, his wife, and his four daughters--begins to unravel after they embark on a 1959 mission to the Belgian Congo, where they find their lives transformed over the course of three decades

  • Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy

    John Le Carre

    Hardcover (G. K. Hall, March 15, 1974)
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  • The Magician's Nephew

    C. S. Lewis

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Dec. 1, 1986)
    When Diggory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
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  • The run

    John Hay

    Hardcover (G. K. Hall, March 15, 1980)
    This beautiful chronicle of the annual migration of the alewives (members of the herring family) provides fascinating insights into animal behavior - and life itself. John Hay follows the alewives' journey for one entire spawning season. Faced with the spectacle of billions of fish responding to an ancient and mysterious drive, he begins asking questions: Why do alewives undertake the hazardous journey from salt to fresh water to spawn? How do the young who stay behind find their way to the ocean without direction? And, most amazing of all, how do the alewives find the same "parent stream" where they spawned? (from the dust jacket)

  • The Cat Who Blew the Whistle

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1995)
    Jim Qwilleran and his feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the disappearance of a wealthy railroad buff--and alleged multimillion-dollar embezzler--a case that becomes complicated by red herrings, a tragic train wreck, and a murder in a railroad tavern

  • The Cat Who Said Cheese

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1996)
    When a bombing wrecks a hotel, kills a housekeeper, and threatens to destroy the Great Food Expo, Qwilleran and his feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, embark on a culinary quest to find a killer

  • The History of Dada: Paris Dada: The Barbarians Storm the Gates

    Elmer Peterson

    Hardcover (G K Hall, March 1, 2001)
    Paris Dada stands apart from the other Dada-doms treated in this series because of the sometimes complicated interaction between the French writers and artists associated with the movement and the band of avant-garde foreigners who flocked to Paris at the end of World War I. These foreigners -- Tzara, Picabia, Man Ray, Iliazd, et al -- were largely uninfluenced by the French tradition of mainly civil art and a call to return to order after the war. In this volume, editor Elmer Peterson has brought together essays that clearly show the interaction between the newcomers and the Parisian Dadaists that shaped this time in the history of the radical art movement. 01

  • Rest you merry

    Charlotte MacLeod

    Hardcover (G. K. Hall, March 15, 1979)
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  • The home run trick

    Scott Corbett

    Unknown Binding (G. K. Hall, March 15, 1973)
    The Panthers try desperately to convincingly lose a baseball game when they find out the winners must play a girls' team.