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?A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.? ? Pulitzer Prize?winning author Stacy SchiffA Goodreads Most Anticipated Book In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone's daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet m...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone's daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear ...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone's daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear ...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Dante Club comes a masterful tale of literature, obsession, and murder in 1870.

Regno Unito, 1870. Un uomo muore in un parco malfamato di Londra sotto gli occhi di numerosi testimoni: un'enorme pietra, come un giogo, gli ha cinto il collo fino a spezzarglielo. Sulla pietra un misterioso verso biblico che rimanda alla Divina Commedia: Eccomi, sono la serva del Signore. Mentre in città altri omicidi suggeriscono la presenza di un nuovo assassino determinato a mettere in scena le punizioni del Purgatorio, il grande artista D...

Memories, fears, the fog of nightmares...Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings stunned Boston, a politician is found in a London park with his neck crushed by an enormous stone device etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When other shocking deaths erupt across the city, all in the style of the penances Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her missing brother, the artist and writer Dante Gabriel R...

Historia y suspense sobre la misteriosa muerte de Edgar Allan Poe. Una novela del autor de El Club Dante.Una muerte. Dos investigadores. Un duelo de inteligencias.Baltimore, 1849. El cuerpo de Edgar Allan Poe es enterrado en una tumba sin nombre. El público, la prensa y la propia familia asumen su condición de escritor caído en desgracia, de borracho con un patético final. Pero un joven abogado llamado Quentin Clark decide descifrar las extrañ...

Un giovane con lo sguardo spiritato e un fascio di fogli bagnati sotto il braccio si aggira per il porto di Boston. È il 1870. Di lì a poco viene trovato morto: il suo nome era Daniel Sand, lavorava per l'editore James Osgood e i fogli, ormai scomparsi, erano i nuovi, attesissimi capitoli dell'ultimo libro di Charles Dickens, "Il mistero di Edwin Drood". A peggiorare le cose, arriva la notizia della morte di Dickens e con essa la certezza di a...

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A first graduating class at a post-Civil War Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause period instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging a quiet machinist and three enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals, labor unions and a sensation-driven media. 40, 000 first printing

A terrific historical mystery in the fine old Arthur Conan Doyle style . . . Who knew that a mystery formed around the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be so good? . . . There are cliffhanger endings and fortuitous escapes. . . . There are even a couple of very sweet romances."-The Globe and Mail NATIONAL BESTSELLER Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between past and present, traditi...

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Discusses the history of the Pledge of Allegiance, its meaning, and changes in the text of it over the years.

A simple introduction to what the Constitution is and how it was written.

Discusses the bald eagle and how it came to be the symbol for the United States.

How do Americans know that government papers are real? If you see an eagle holding a shield, and a pyramid with an eye above it, the papers are no fakes. Listen to Benjamin Franklin as he talks about the birth of the Great Seal in 1782 and why it's still so important to our country today.