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Author
Pub. Date
1979, c1953
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Description
"No novel could contain more dramatic events than the history of Cripple Creek."Wyoming Library Roundup "This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with fantasy: here are the plain facts of one of the most unbelievable incidents of our history, of a place in the Colorado mountains where a man threw his hat into the air, dug where it fell, and struck a rich vein of ore. . . . It is a fascinating...
Author
Pub. Date
1958
Description
To fill out the story of Anne Frank after the events recorded in her "Diary of a young girl", the author interviewed 42 people who had known her. Based on these interviews, this book "tells about Anne's experiences at Auschwitz and Belsen and of her death at the latter German concentration camp. It gives first-hand accounts of what Anne Frank was like.".
4) The Eagle
Series
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and...