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Sluicebox Series Volume 1 Issue 1    by M. L. Poncelet
Price: $0.99 USD. 2730 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

The Sluicebox Series is a collection of interesting facts and entertaining fiction about the Fraser River Gold Rush and the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1800s in British Columbia. Read how Francis Jones Barnard’s express company grew from just a two-horse wagon to a fleet of stagecoaches. Issue one includes BX Holdup,a mystery about a stagecoach robbery during the summer of 1865.
Protestmusik gegen den Vietnamkrieg: Die amerikanische Hippie-Kultur zwischen überzeugter Kriegsopposition und Kommerzialisierung    by Helen Christopher
Price: $3.90 USD. 11310 words. Language: German. Published on April 30, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

„If you wanna end the war and stuff you've gotta sing loud“ (Arlo Guthrie). Der Vietnamkrieg war ein Wendepunkt in der US-Kultur. Teile der Gesellschaft begehrten auf und protestierten gegen die Regierung und den Krieg im fernen Dschungel. Die Bewegung wurde von Musik begleitet. Die Autorin beleuchtet die Hippiekultur und die Entwicklung der Protestmusik bis nach Woodstock und darüber hinaus.
Protestmusik gegen den Vietnamkrieg: Die amerikanische Hippie-Kultur zwischen überzeugter Kriegsopposition und Kommerzialisierung    by Helen Christopher
Price: $3.90 USD. 11310 words. Language: German. Published on April 30, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

„If you wanna end the war and stuff you've gotta sing loud“ (Arlo Guthrie). Der Vietnamkrieg war ein Wendepunkt in der US-Kultur. Teile der Gesellschaft begehrten auf und protestierten gegen die Regierung und den Krieg im fernen Dschungel. Die Bewegung wurde von Musik begleitet. Die Autorin beleuchtet die Hippiekultur und die Entwicklung der Protestmusik bis nach Woodstock und darüber hinaus.
The Human Center; why Americans don’t have one; essays on instinct, human scale, and near-equality    by Robert Baller
Price: Free! 76180 words. Language: American English. Published on April 22, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

The Human Center is nine essays on American history, nature-nurture, instinct, spirituality, trade, human scale, space, and near equality. The Human Center describes how we are still tribal beings.
Tribes and Trappers: A History of Montana, Volume One    by Greg Strandberg
Price: $9.99 USD. 32340 words. Language: English. Published on April 1, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

Montana’s history is rich, colorful, and full of excitement in this fully-illustrated history. See how Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger blazed trails and made their names under the Big Sky. Read about John Colter, Hugh Glass, Mike Fink, and more. Discover the Blackfeet, Shoshone, Crow, Cheyenne, and the dinosaurs that came before them. Montana's history comes alive like it never has before.
Haida Gwaii    by Benjamin Pearce
Price: $0.99 USD. 3920 words. Language: English. Published on March 28, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

They lie on the edge of the province's collective memory like a dream scarce remembered; mythical and elusive, full of meaning and great beauty, yet incomprehensible to the waking mind. Impossible not to marvel at, and revel in, these are the Queen Charlotte Islands, arguably one of the most beautiful and diverse landscapes in the world.
Hanged Twice No Joke    by David Taylor
Price: $15.99 USD. 112040 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published on March 23, 2013. Nonfiction » Law » Criminal.

This book is about Canadian and British Commonwealth history and administration of justice. There were at least two cases in which the defendants were hanged twice, Bennie Swim(m) having killed two people, and Henry Baldwin and James Lennan, having been convicted of murdering Clayton Tilton. These will be presented amongst others.
Prince With No Inheritance    by Toban Schreyer
Price: $5.99 USD. 8910 words. Language: English. Published on March 16, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Adventures of a Vice-Regal Brat. My life in brief, from a child's perspective living at Rideau Hall, Ottawa when my father was Governor General of Canada then to Australia and later struggles with mental illness.
Knights of the Narrow Gauge    by DB Dakota
Price: $2.99 USD. 8060 words. Language: English. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on March 8, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

SHORT HISTORICAL NON-FICTION: Excitement, danger, legend and romance filled the lives of the brave paladins of early railroading, heroes to the people who worshiped them and their iron ponies.
The Next 30 Days: How a Nation Rebuilt in the 30 Days Following the Death of JFK    by BookCaps
Price: $2.99 USD. 14140 words. Language: English. Published on February 28, 2013. Nonfiction » History » North America.

Everyone who was alive remembers where they were the day John F. Kennedy was shot; but that’s just a brief moment in time. What shaped the country—and even the world—wasn’t that brief moment…it was how we rebuilt. This book follows the 30 days following the death of John F. Kennedy died—it shows how a nation came together, endured, and became stronger in the wake of horrific tragedy. HistoryCa