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My Penitente Land
Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance
Failure is Not an Option
Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir
The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
Cesar Romero: The Joker is Wild
They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir
Bodega Stories
The House on Mango Street
American Indian Stories
Refuge
Growing Up Biden
Time on Two Crosses
Poor Richard's Almanack
Dual Identities: Living in Meier's Shadow
Dual Identities - An Author Conversation with Arthur Myron Horwitz
Wilding
Sweet Promised Land, 50th Ed.
Life Among the Piutes
The Long Shadow of Little Rock
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Two in the Far North
Raising Ourselves
Into the Wild
A Thousand Trails Home
There's Always This Year
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first—and finds he’s not quite the man we remember

Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down—even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle.…

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