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OverDrive eBooks July 2018
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"The honor of a nation is its life." -- Alexander Hamilton
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Founding Brothers : The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis
An illuminating analysis of the intertwined careers of the founders of the American republic documents the lives of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington and explains how their encounters transformed their era and shaped the history of the United States. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
by Sarah Vowell
A portrait of the French Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, discusses his nonpartisan influence on a fledgling United States, his relationships with the Founding Fathers, and his contributions during the contentious 1824 presidential election.
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Band of Giants : the Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence
by Jack Kelly
A gripping military history of the Revolutionary War featuring nine maps focuses on the lesser-known founding generals who, willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of battle, fought for America's independence, including Henry Knox, a bookseller who took over the American artillery at the age of 25.
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Fighting Over the Founders : How We Remember the American Revolution
by Andrew M. Schocket
"The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment,the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history: more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation's aspirations. Americans' increased fascination with the Revolution over the past two decades represents more than interest in the past. It's also a site to work out the present, and the future.
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July 7th is World Chocolate Day
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Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
by Alexander McCall Smith
Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him, a mystery complicated by her no-nonsense housekeeper Grace's skepticism and the charming Italian lothario Cat brings home from the wedding.
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Chocolat : a Novel
by Joanne Harris
When the beautiful and mysterious Vianne moves to Lansquenet and opens a chocolate shop across from the church, the inhabitants of the tiny village find themselves torn between the solemn law of religion and the joyful rewards of Vianne's confections.
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Dying for Chocolate
by Diane Mott Davidson
Fleeing an abusive ex, caterer Goldy Bear moves herself, her son, and her business to the Aspen Meadow Country Club area, where she becomes enmeshed in a murder mystery involving a handsome local shrink.
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Double Fudge Brownie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Eager to clear her name in the aftermath of a tragic accident, Hannah Swensen is wrongly implicated in the bludgeoning death of her trial judge, who she discovers had more than a few enemies. Includes recipes. By the best-selling author of Blackberry Pie Murder.
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