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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me 1st Edition
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James W Loewen
virginiapeiffer
, July 03, 2020
THE REASON FOR THE #1 IS BECAUSE HISTORY HID A LOT OF LIES...EXAMPLE...BLACKS WERE SOLD TO TRADERS IN AFRICA BY THEIR OWN PEOPLE...WHY? WHY DID THEY DO THAT? YET NOW THE BLACKS ARE ARGUING THEY ARE ""NOT FREE LIKE WHITES, NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE? THIS COUNTRY IS CALLED ""UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"", SO WHY DID'NT HISTORY TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR SLAVES IN THEIR FAMILY LINES?? NOW THE UNITED HAS NO REASON TO BE IN OUR COUNTRY BECAUSE BOTH SIDES CAN'T GET ALONG AND HISTORY NEEDS TO BE REDONE AND THE TRUTH BE PUT IN PLACE..YOUR BOOK SHOULD HAVE THIS INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIES ABOUT HISTORY...
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Caroline Fraser
virginiapeiffer
, September 03, 2018
I HAVE ALWAYS HAD SO MUCH ADMIRATION FOR LAURA INGALLS WILDER. I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF HER BOOKS, WHY YOU ASK? BECAUSE MY MEMORIES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WHAT I WAS TOLD BY MY GRAND PARENTS AND THEIR PARENTS.. LIVING AND GROWING UP IN OKLAHOMA AS MY GRAND PARENTS WAS SO HARD BUT SOMETHING I CAN REMEMBER UP AND UNTIL MY END. I THINK LAURA WILDER HAD PARENTS WHO CARED BUT GAVE THEIR CHILDREN EVERYTHING THEY COULD GIVE THEM.. FOR ANYONE WHOSE INTEREST IS HISTORY THIS GIVES EVERYONE SOME IDEA OF HOW OUR MATERNAL GRAND PARENTS GREW UP IN THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WE CALL OUR OWN.. I LOVE LITTLE HOUSE AND BEING OLD I LOVE READING WHEN I CAN AFFORD TO GET A NEW BOOK, BUT IT HAS TO BE LIKE LAURA INGALLS WILDER.
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
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Michael Wallis
virginiapeiffer
, July 25, 2017
A FEW YEARS AGO I DECIDED TO FOLLOW MY ANCESTRY UPON THE DEATH OF MY PARENTS. I GOT THE STRONG URGE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM BOTH. MY FATHER'S SIDE CAME TO THE ""DONNER PARTY"" EVERYDAY I SEARCH FOR MORE TO LEARN ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE SO MUCH IN NEED TO GO WEST. TO NOT KNOW WHAT LAY AHEAD WOULD EXCITE ANYONE BUT NOT THIS FAR. EVERY BOOK LIKE THIS ONE IS ANOTHER STEP IN KNOWING WHO I CAME FROM THEIR UPS AND DOWNS. I FIND THIS BOOK OF WHAT I HAVE READ HERE IS ANOTHER STEP FORWARD FOR ME. I WILL ALWAYS. WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM. THIS BOOK NEEDS TO BE READ TO KNOW HOW THIS GROUP ATTEMPED TO GO WEST LIKE EVERYONE NEW TO THIS COUNTRY. BACK THEN. THANK YOU I WOULD CHERISH CLOSELY TO HAVE THIS BOOK. I WOULD LEARN MORE.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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George Saunders
virginiapeiffer
, July 21, 2017
DURING THIS TIME PERIOD THE COUNTRY ALWAYS THOUGHT OF LINCOLN'S HEARTFELT FEELINGS FOR HIS SON WHO PASSED AWAY. HERE A MAN HONEST AND YET KEPT. STRONG DURING A THIS COUNTRY'S SEVERE SEPARATION. YET STAYED STRONG FOR THE PEOPLE. THIS BOOK IS HISTORY IN A RARE VIEW. BUT. DRAWS THE READER INTO CONTINUING TO LEARN MORE. THIS IS THE KIND OF BOOK DRAWS MY ATTENTION TO THE END. I DO WANT TO SAY THIS. I COULD UNDERSTAND HIS STRONG AFFECTION FOR THE SON WHO PASSED AND WHY HE WOULD WANT TO CONTINUE TO HOLD AND PASS HIS LOVE ONTO HIM AS ANYONE HONEST PARENT WOULDYET STAY STRONG FOR OTHERS AROUND THEM
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Great Plains
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Edward S Curtis
virginiapeiffer
, May 20, 2017
I HAVE FOR YEARS READING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS. THIS BOOK LOOKS SO GOOD AND I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE TO READ AND LEARN. THE COVER IS WHAT DREW ME TO IT. ANYONE WHO WOULD SEE THIS BOOK WOULD ALSO WANT IT TO THIR COLLECTION. I HOPE I WIN THIS BOOK BECAUSE I WOULD NEVER LET IT OUT OF. MY HANDS NOR MY SIGHT.
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War
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Daniel J. Sharfstein
virginiapeiffer
, March 27, 2017
IN READING THIS CAPTION IT DREW MY ATTENTION TO THIS BOOK. HISTORY BEING TAUGHT IN SCHOOL I WAS NOT INTERESTED IN. AFTER I REMEMBER THE TALK I HAD WITH MY LATE GREAT GRAND MOTHER. OF OUR INDIAN FAMILY HIDDEN HERITAGE. I CANT GET ENOUGH OF BOOKS OF HISTORY. AND MANY OF THEM ON NATIVE AMERICANS. THIS BOOK IN MY HANDS. WILL NEVER LEAVE THEM AND READ OVER AND OVER. IF ANYONE WOULD WANT TO READ MORE ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS. THEY NEED EVERY BOOK AVAILABLE. THIS ONE IS GREATR
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"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker
virginiapeiffer
, November 09, 2016
THE TITLE IS ONE THAT DRAWS ONE INTO TO READ ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS. TO ME. NOT ALL NATIVES AMERICANS ARE GONE. YES THE GREATEST CHIEFS. AND BRAVES HAVE PASSED. BY FOR THOSE HERE THEY HAVE THE BLOOD OF THOSE GONE IN THEIR SYSTEM BLOOD LINE. THAT CANNOT BE DENIED. STAND UP FOR THE BRAVE WHOS BLOOD RUNS THROUGH THEIR VEINS AND MAKE THEM PROUD. FOR I AM PROUD OF MINE. AND ALWAYS WILL. I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE BLOOD THAT RUNS THROUGH MY VEINS. AND WONT EITHER.
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"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker
virginiapeiffer
, October 27, 2016
THE GREATEST CHIEFS. OF THIS COUNTRY ARE TRULY MISSED BUT. THEIR LEGACY. IS FOREVER STUCK IN MY MIND. LOVE THE BOOK NEED MORE. HISTORICAL STORIES TRUE STORIES ARE ONES YOU CANT GET ENOGH OF LIKE MYSELF. I WOULD UTTERLY CHERIOUS. THIS BOOK. TO READ OVER AND OVER. I WISH OTHERS KNEW THE STORIES OF WHAT THE NATIVE AMERICANS HAD TO PUT UP WITH.
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America Before the European Invasions
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Alice Beck Kehoe
virginiapeiffer
, September 10, 2011
To Alice Kehoe, I'am writting to ask you questions I have. Please I am in no way trying to offend you but I feel you feel as I do of what I have been doing for months. I do have have only appreciation of someone who can write the full truth of my heritage the great American Indian Tribes. Their legal ownership of this country. YES Iam very much an American and want people to hear and see the honest ownership. We have suffered through the years, centuries, and still our rights to be as the whites say"human beings". We were not savages but created by whites to be "savages". When the whites began dying of hunger,we fed them, yes the area they took we ALLOWED them to live on. They in turned brought more here to steal the land. What has this illegal aliens given us....dirty hospitals,no land, made us drunks, and killed our forefathers so they can steal the rest. I want the children to know the truth and learn it everyday intheir schools. To know how their forefather's stole everything for them. If the whites are not afraid to teach their children this History, then why is it not in their History books.Why do they not know the whole truth that God would want them to know? I feel what I have from hidden History will and must come out. I do feel your book has what these kids need to read and much much more.
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