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  • Tories

    Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

    by Thomas B. Allen ...
    An "evocatively written examination" of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution ( American Spectator).The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Declassified

    50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History

    by Thomas B. Allen ...
    Culled from archives around the world, the 50 documents in Declassified illuminate the secret and often inaccessible stories of agents, espionage, and behind-the-scenes events that played critical roles in American history. Moving through time from Elizabethan England to the Cold War and beyond, noted author Tom Allen places each document in its historical and cultural context, sharing the quirky ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 1789

    George Washington and the Founders Create America

    by Thomas B. Allen ...
    "[Historian Allen] recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. It’s a superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history.”— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review1789: George Washington and the Founders Create Americadraws on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, setting out to show the world at large ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War

    How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-Powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War

    by Thomas B. Allen, Roger MacBride Allen ...
    Narrated by Fred Sullivan ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 9 min

    Thomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen's knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser known yet fascinating side of the sixteenth president of the United States. Their authoritative narrative reveals Lincoln as our nation's first hands-on commander-in-chief, whose appreciation for the power of technology plays a critical role in the North's ... Read more

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  • Rickover

    by Thomas B. Allen; Norman Polmar ...
    Hyman G. Rickover was not long removed from his Jewish roots in Poland when he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922. After a respectable career spent mostly in unglamorous submarine and engineering billets, he took command of the U.S. NavyÆs nuclear propulsion program and revived his career, being retiredùinvoluntarilyùsome thirty years later in early 1982. He was not only the architect ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • The Chalk Box Kid

    by Clyde Robert Bulla ...
    Illustrated by Thomas B. Allen ...
    Series series A Stepping Stone Book
    A classroom favorite about the power of art and creativity.A new neighborhood. A new school. A lonely birthday. Life isn’t easy for nine-year-old Gregory. Then he finds an abandoned chalk factory behind his house. It’s a secret place, just for him! Now he can draw anything he imagines on the dark brick walls. What amazing thing will Gregory draw first?Two beloved classics—The Chalk Box Kid and The ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Bonus Army

    An American Epic

    by Paul Dickson, Thomas B. Allen ...
    "The account by Dickson and Allen recalls the subliminal force of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with gaunt stories of character at the limits of dignity." ― Taylor Branch, New York Review of BooksIn the summer of 1932, 15,000 World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C., demanding payment from the Herbert Hoover administration of the bonus promised to them eight years earlier for their wartime ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Ship of Gold

    A Novel

    by Norman C Polmar, Thomas B Allen ...
    This taut thriller provides the behind-the-scenes reality of the national security system at work --the CIA, the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the National Security Council -—and is must-reading for fans of Tom Clancy and W.E.B. Griffin. In 1945, the U.S. submarine Tigerfish mistakenly torpedoed and sunk a Japanese merchant ship. Reportedly carrying supplies to allied POWs, the ship had been ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Nowhereville

    Weird Is Other People

    by Scott Gable, Nuzo Onoh, Maura McHugh, P. Djèlí Clark, Evan J. Peterson, S.P. Miskowski, Craig Laurance Gidney, Lynda E. Rucker, Tariro Ndoro, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Mike Allen, Jeffrey Thomas, Erica L. Satifka, Kathe Koja, Leah Bobet, Ramsey Campbell, Wole Talabi, Stephen Graham Jones, R.B. Lemberg, Cody Goodfellow ...
    Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People is an anthology of urban weird fiction. These are stories of the city, of people interacting with the complexities that are other people. These 19 short stories explore the genre of weird fiction, tales not quite fantasy and not quite science fiction, tales blurring the lines between genres. These are the strange stories of the strange decisions we make and the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hierarchy

    Perspectives for Ecological Complexity

    by T. F. H. Allen, Thomas B. Starr ...
    Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals interact both with each other and with the myriad biotic and abiotic components of their surroundings across geographies as well as spatial and ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Manufactured Gas Plant Remediation

    A Case Study

    by Allen W. Hatheway, Thomas B. Speight ...
    The assessment, remediation, and redevelopment of manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites pose a significant technical and financial challenge to successor property owners, including municipalities and other public entities undertaking brownfields revitalization, and to their consulting environmental engineers. Due to the toxicity of many coal tar constituents, sites contaminated as a result of ... Read more

    $254.99 USD

  • HALLOWEEN COLLECTION TREAT

    600+ Chilling Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries, Gothic Novels & Horror Thrillers

    by Théophile Gautier, Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne0, Ambrose Bierce1, Arthur Machen2, William Hope Hodgson3, M. P. Shiel4, Arthur Conan Doyle5, Ralph Adams Cram6, Grant Allen7, Horace Walpole8, William Thomas Beckford9, Matthew Gregory Lewis0, Ann Radcliffe1, Jane Austen2, Charlotte Brontë3, Emily Brontë4, Charles Dickens5, Oscar Wilde6, Gaston Leroux7, Marjorie Bowen8, Percy Bysshe Shelley9, Theodor Storm0, Thomas Love Peacock1, Charles Maturin2, Charles Brockden Brown3, Mary Shelley4, John William Polidori5, Guy Boothby6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, George W. M. Reynolds8, Thomas Hardy9, Rudyard Kipling0, Guy de Maupassant1, Elizabeth Gaskell2, Lafcadio Hearn3, Jerome K. Jerome5, Fitz-James O'Brien6, Catherine Crowe7, Émile Erckmann8, Alexandre Chatrian9, Pedro De Alarçon0, Walter Hubbell1, Amelia B. Edwards2, Washington Irving3, John Meade Falkner4, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman5, Louisa M. Alcott6, Edith Nesbit7, Mary Louisa Molesworth8, Francis Marion Crawford9, Gertrude Atherton0, John Kendrick Bangs1, J. K. Huysmans2, John Buchan3, Sabine Baring-Gould4, Sax Rohmer5, Cleveland Moffett6, Louis Tracy7, Nikolai Gogol8, James Malcolm Rymer9, Thomas Peckett Prest0, Frederick Marryat1, Robert Louis Stevenson2, H. G. Wells3, Charlotte Perkins Gilman4, W. W. Jacobs5, H. H. Munro6, Wilhelm Hauff7, Adelbert von Chamisso8, Mary Elizabeth Braddon9, Robert W. Chambers0, Edward Bulwer-Lytton1, Thomas De Quincey2, William Makepeace Thackeray3, E. T. A. Hoffmann4, Robert E. Howard5, David Lindsay6, Marie Belloc Lowndes7, Edward Bellamy8, Eleanor M. Ingram9, Marie Corelli0, J. Meade Falkner1, Thomas Mayne Reid2, George Sylvester Viereck3, William Harrison Ainsworth4, John R. Musick5, Fred M. White6, Harriet Beecher Stowe7, Daniel Defoe8, Jack London9, George MacDonald00, Mark Twain01, Pliny the Younger02, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant03, Helena Blavatsky04, Fergus Hume05, Florence Marryat06, Villiers de l'Isle Adam07, William Archer08, William F. Harvey09, Katherine Rickford10, Leopold Kompert11, Vincent O'Sullivan12, Ellis Parker Butler13, A. T. Quiller-Couch14, Fiona Macleod15, William T. Stead16, Gambier Bolton17, Andrew Jackson Davis18, Nizida19, Walter F. Prince20, Chester Bailey Fernald21, Brander Matthews22, Leonard Kip23, Frank R. Stockton24, Bithia Mary Croker25, Catherine L. Pirkis26, Anatole France27, Richard Le Gallienne28, Olivia Howard Dunbar29, S. Mukerji30 ...
    Translated by Lafcadio Hearn4, J. T. Bealby31, Keene Wallace32, Samuel Henley33, Isabel F. Hapgood34, C. J. Hogarth35, Margarete Münsterberg36 ...
    This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: H. P. Lovecraft: The Tomb The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House Bram Stoker: Dracula The Dualists Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Evil Eye Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror William ... Read more

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