Category: History

This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly's acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It is the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Now a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computer...
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The U.S. Army at War (On the Front Lines)

By: Sievert, Terri

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Capstone Press: September 2001

Seller ID: 98521

ISBN: 0736809228

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: Used - Good

Provides an overview of the U.S Army, along with its mission, members, history, recent conflicts, and modern equipment.
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Historic American Landmarks (Dover History Coloring Book)

By: Smith, A. G.

Price: $2.49

Publisher: Dover Publications: September 2005

Seller ID: 99316

ISBN: 0486444899

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This exciting collection of easy-to-color drawings takes you on a cross-country journey during which you'll visit famous, man-made landmarks--from the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor to the Pearl Harbor Memorial in Hawaii.

Along the way you can stop and color pictures of:

-the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall in Philadelphia
-Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's stately Virginia home
-the Civil War Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia
-Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
-the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

... and 23 other celebrated sites.

A brief, iden...
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Peoples of Utah

By: Society, Utah State Historical

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Utah State Historical Society: June 1981

Seller ID: 119638

ISBN: 0913738263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Sons of the Profits: There's No Business Like Grow Business. The Seattle Story, 1851-1901

By: Speidel, William C.

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Nettle Creek: January 1967

Seller ID: 107552

ISBN: 0914890069

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Saturday Evening Post (The United States Presidents ...Their Lives , Families , & Great Decisions, 1980)

By: Staff,

Price: $3.79

Publisher: Curtis Publishing Co.: January 1980

Seller ID: 119766

ISBN: 089387051x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp

By: Stanley, Jerry

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell: January 2000

Seller ID: 99792

ISBN: 0440830435

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Story of the Amistad

By: Sterne, Emma Gelders

Price: $2.49

Publisher: Dover Publications: April 2001

Seller ID: 95977

ISBN: 0486415376

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This gripping, fast-paced book tells the dramatic story of the epic 1839 voyage of the schooner Amistad and her cargo of Africans bound for slavery in the New World. Under the leadership of Cinque, a young African farmer, the Africans revolt and seize the ship. They start for home, but instead of reaching Africa, they wind up in New England. The story of these events and the resulting trial of the captured Africans was front-page news at the time. Were they rebellious slaves and mutineers -- "property" that must rightfully be returned to its owners -- or honest men and women trying to r...
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Historic Tales of Utah (American Chronicles)

By: Stone, Eileen Hallet

Price: $4.99

Publisher: The History Press: April 2016

Seller ID: 106349

ISBN: 1467135550

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the rugged beauty and refined splendor of this vast state emerges a remarkable volume of personal recollections, narrative histories and astonishing stories. Explore the fortitude and cultural diversity behind the development of Utah through "Big Bill" Haywood, vilified by the New York Times as "the most feared figure in America." Experience compelling accounts of women bruised on the front lines of suffrage battles, enthralling stories of Chinese "paper sons and daughters" and heroic endeavors of Northern Ute firefighters. Celebrate downtown's "Wall Street of the West," the off-road cycl...
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U.S. History: People and Events that Helped Build America: Portfolio Book & Wall Chart

By: Sullivan, Erin Ash

Price: $6.29

Publisher: Publications Intl: June 2007

Seller ID: 99095

ISBN: 1412713579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Notre-Dame of Paris

By: Temko, Allan

Price: $6.99

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: July 1994

Seller ID: 116092

ISBN: 039330664X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Rooted in San Juan: A genealogical study of burials in San Juan County, Utah, 1879-1995

By: Turk, Toni Richard

Price: $9.85

Publisher: T.R. Turk: January 1995

Seller ID: 113227

ISBN: 0916095703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dakota Dugout

By: Turner, Ann

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Aladdin: March 1989

Seller ID: 91031

ISBN: 0689712960

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Tell you about the prairie years? I'll tell you, child, how it was.
And through a combination of spare, poetic text and expansive illustrations, readers can learn of life on the prairie as the settlers knew it -- seen through the eyes of a woman who lived there a century ago.
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Spice: The History of a Temptation

By: Turner, Jack

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Vintage: August 2005

Seller ID: 97905

ISBN: 0375707050

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era--from ancient times through the Renaissance--when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood.

Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth ...
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Lehi: Portraits of a Utah Town

By: Van Wagoner, Richard S

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Lehi City Corp: January 1990

Seller ID: 119689

ISBN: 1560850019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Book of the Free Trapper

By: Walters, Keith

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Pioneer Pr: June 1981

Seller ID: 109130

ISBN: 0913150460

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dance, Pioneer, Dance!

By: Walton, Rick

Price: $5.79

Publisher: Deseret Book Co: September 1997

Seller ID: 72734

ISBN: 1573452432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Pioneers dance, goats promenade, and pigs pirouette in this whimsical poem about dancing and fun on the pioneer trail. In lyrical verse, author Rick Walton tells a story to delight both children and adults. With its catchy rhythms and unusual rhymes, it is especially fun to read aloud. Brad Teare's colorful illustrations tantalize the imagination as lizards jig with prairie dogs and a grizzly bear joins in a line dance. Entertaining and imaginative, this story gives children a new insight into pioneer travels -- in addition to the hard work and trials in crossing the plains, the pioneers also ...
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Category: History