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History of Rife and Riffe Families
Primarily, the information contained in this book will relate to the Rife/Riffe generations throughout Virginia and West Virginia. Peter Reif was the earliest ancestor of this family, born about 1725 either in Germany or Pennsylvania. He moved from Pennsylvania to Montgomery Co., Maryland about 1763, then to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, settling in what later became known as Rockingham County. At he time of his death he lived in Wythe Co., Virginia.
Autobiography of George Dewey
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Risk-Taking in International Politics
Discusses the way leaders deal with risk in making foreign policy decisions
A New Force at Sea
A New Force at Sea tells the story of one of the most important officers in the U.S. Navy between the Civil War and World War II. Born in Montpelier, Vermont, George Dewey attended the still relatively new U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1858. He served with distinction in the Civil War in the Union Navy, saw a significant amount of action in the Mississippi River and along the Atlantic coast, and was singled out for his leadership and bravery by his superior officers. In the wake of the war, Dewey remained in the Navy as an officer, but the American people were generally uninterested in any role their nation could play in the broader world and the Navy languished. Dewey however, refined h...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great ...
