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  • The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

    A Fugitive Slave Narrative of Twenty-Five Years in Bondage, Escape, and the Struggle for Freedom

    by John Thompson ...
    The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave is an important example of the antebellum slave narrative, presenting enslavement not as an abstraction but as a system experienced through coercion, surveillance, family disruption, and the persistent denial of personhood. In a direct, testimonial style, Thompson recounts the conditions that shaped his bondage and the struggle through which he sought ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stilt Jack

    by John Thompson ...
    Series series A List
    The much-loved, yet undervalued, final book of poems by British-Canadian poet John Thompson, is reissued in a handsome edition, featuring a new introduction by Rob Winger.Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson’s command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - First Grade

    First Grade

    by John Thompson ...
    (Willis). The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - Second Grade (Book Only)

    Second Grade

    by John Thompson ...
    (Willis). The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. Follows uninterruptedly and in progressive sequence the musical foundation developed in Book 1. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

    Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape

    by John Thompson ...
    The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vesselJohn Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the North, where he lived as a free man until fear of recapture drove him to flee once again-this time to sea ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Great Power Rising

    Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy

    by John M. Thompson ...
    The nature of the US political system, with its overlapping powers, intense partisanship, and continuous scrutiny from the media and public, complicates the conduct of foreign policy. While numerous presidents have struggled under the weight of these conditions, Theodore Roosevelt thrived and is widely lauded for his diplomacy. Roosevelt played a crucial role in the nation's rise to world power, ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • I Came As a Shadow

    An Autobiography

    by John Thompson ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThe long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp reliefJohn Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.After three decades at the center of race and sports ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Russia And The Soviet Union

    An Historical Introductionsecond Edition

    by John M Thompson ...
    This book is a brief, lucid account of Russian and Soviet history from ancient Kievan Rus' to the present day. Equal attention is paid to the early and the modern periods of Russian history. The author has revised this new edition to include the dramatic changes in the Soviet Union and its foreign policy during Gorbachev's first five years in office. The text is supplemented with maps and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Armageddon Conspiracy

    by John Thompson ...
    Series series Brent Lucas
    Fast-rising money manager Brent Lucas has no idea that the head of his new firm is a Christian fanatic or that his multi-million dollar job is a set-up until a billion dollars disappears from a client's account--and until he ends up as the only suspect. Determined to clear himself, he goes to his client's home where he finds only corpses. Narrowly escaping, Lucas runs from both the FBI and his ... Read more

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  • Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate

    A Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Nature Studies, Myths, and Moral Classics

    by C. E. Smith, Louey Chisholm, Harrison Weir, Harriet Putnam, Thomas Lambert Sappington, Carl Sandburg, Patten Beard, Margaret Warner Morley, Hector Malot, Charles Dickens, Catharine Shaw, Evelyn Sharp, Johanna Spyri, Heinrich Hoffmann, Roy Rutherford Bailey, Pamela Grey, E. Nesbit, Edward Stratemeyer, Loïs Bates, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Habberton, James Otis, Padraic Colum, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, E. Louise Smythe, F. J. Cross, Vesta J. Farnsworth, Douglas English, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Ella Rodman Church, H. Lee M. Pike, Luna May Ennis, Claire Martha Coburn, Florence Emma Voigt Mendel, Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, Etta Blaisdell McDonald, James H. Shaw, Georgia Eldridge Hanley, W. Harcourt Bath, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Norman F. Langford, Jean M. Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, Alfred John Church, Homer, A. L. O. E., C. M. Stevens, Francis La Flesche, Karl Friedrich Becker, George P. Upton, Paul Hume, Ruth Fox Hume, Rebecca Deming Moore, Helen Mildred Owen, L. Würdig, Elisha Noyce, Julia Dalrymple, Henry C. McCook, Jim Kjelgaard, William Shakespeare, Mary Elting, Edith M. Patch, Mary Proctor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne, H. R. Hall, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernadine Bailey, E. F. Buckley, Rupert Sargent Holland, Benjamin Brewster, Neltje Blanchan, Burren Laughlin, L. L. Flood, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Dorothy Crain, Oliver Optic, Dillon Wallace, Charles H. L. Johnston, G. E. Mitton, Mary Macgregor, John Bunyan, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Josephine Pollard, May Farinholt Jones, Harriet Pearl Skinner ...
    Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical ... Read more

    Was $2.99 USD Now $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hong Kong Deception

    by John Thompson ...
    Series series Brent Lucas
    When an argument on the football practice field turns vicious and leaves one boy in a coma, Brent Lucas is convinced it was far more than a simple fight between a Chinese exchange student and another player. As the only witness to the fight, Lucas defends the Chinese student, unaware that he is putting himself and his family in mortal danger. Lucas finds himself drawn into a widening vortex that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • We Had Enough

    by John Thompson ...
    Before I KnewBefore I knew what war was, it was already shaping my life.Before I knew what fear was, my mother was living inside it every single night.Before I knew what sacrifice meant, my father was already deep in the middle of making it.Before I knew what home meant, mine had already been left behind, for safety's sake.Before I ever learned the names Swan Hunter, Vickers-Armstrongs, Redheads, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD