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The Greatest Escape: A True American Civil War Adventure tells the story of the largest prison breakout in U.S. history. It took place during the Civil War, when more than 1,200 Yankee officers were jammed into Libby, a special prison considered escape-proof, in the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia. A small group of men, obsessed with escape, mapped out an elaborate plan and one cold and clear night, 109 men dug their way to freedom. Freezing, starving, clad in rags, they still had to travel 50 miles to Yankee lines and safety. They were pursued by all the white people in the area, but every Black person they encountered was their friend. In every instance, slaves risked their lives to help these Yankees, and their journey was aided by a female-led Union spy network. Since all the escapees were officers, they all could read and write well. Over 50 of them would publish riveting accounts of their adventures. This is the first book to weave together these contemporary accounts into a true-to-life narrative. Much like a Ken Burns documentary, this book uses the actual words the prisoners recorded more than 150 years ago, as found in their many diaries and journals.
In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as evidence of America's enduring settler-colonial project. But Douglas K. Miller here argues that a richer story should be told--one that recognizes Indigenous mobility in terms of its benefits and not merely its costs. In their collective refusal to accept marginality and destitution on reservations, Native...
Wages of Sin is a murder-mystery that takes place in the town of Willowbrook, Pennsylvania. Detective Matt Hooper is the lead detective of the Willowbrook Police Department. When a murdered woman is discovered, Hooper has no idea that the murder is the first of a series of serial killings. The investigation takes Hooper to other localities, and a host of unsavory characters. Through twists and turns, the story unfolds with several people becoming suspect, but can Hooper find the real killer before the body count rises? Detective Hooper's long ordeal to find the killer even surprises the now-seasoned detective.
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For more than 20 years, this has been the best selling guide to software engineering for students and industry professionals alike. This edition has been completely updated and contains hundreds of new references to software tools.
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