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Nathan Hale's hazardous tales

Author:
Hale, Nathan, 1976
Hale, Nathan
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1. Big bad ironclad!: a civil war steamship showdown

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Revolutionary War spy, Nathan Hale, tells a hangman and British officer about the ironclad steam warships used in the Civil War.

2. Donner dinner party

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The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It's also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expansion of the United States, and the families and individuals who sacrificed so much to build new lives in a largely unknown landscape. From the preparation for the journey to each disastrous leg of the trip, this book shows the specific bad decisions that led to the party's predicament in the Sierra Nevada...

3. Nathan Hale's hazardous tales: treaties, trenches, mud, and blood (a World War I tale)

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"World War I introduced a new type of warfare: mechanized war on a global scale. Nathan Hale (the author's real name), whose previous graphic histories for young readers include "One Dead Spy" (about the American hero Nathan Hale), "Big Bad Ironclad" (about the American Civil War), and "Donner Dinner Party" (about the Donner Party of 1846-47), here offers a concise illustrated history of WWI"--

4. The Underground Abductor

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A deluxe, oversized edition of the original Underground Abductor graphic novel—with 16 pages of new material!
The Bigger & Badder editions of Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales continue.

  
Araminta Ross was born an enslaved person in Delaware in the early 19th century. After years of backbreaking labor and the constant threat of being sold and separated from her family, she escaped and traveled north to freedom.

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5. Alamo all-stars

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Shares the Lone Star State's bloody fight for independence from the Mexican government and features the exploits of historical legends, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

6. Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid

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In author-illustrator Nathan Hale's Raid of No Return, go behind the scenes of World War II's top-secret Doolittle Raid with the New York Times bestselling Hazardous Tales graphic novel series!

"These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history." —New York Times

Presented in the author's instantly recognizable artistic and...

7. Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale

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New York Times Bestselling Series!
STARRED REVIEW *“Action-packed. . . . A must-buy.” —School Library Journal
“These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.” —New York Times
 
Meet French nobleman and American Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette in this installment of the

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8. Major Impossible

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The ninth book in the bestselling series tells the story of John Wesley Powell, the one-armed geologist who explored the Grand Canyon

John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) always had the spirit of adventure in him. As a young man, he traveled all over the United States exploring. When the Civil War began, Powell went to fight for the Union, and even after he lost most of his right arm, he continued to fight until the war was over. In 1869

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9. Blades of freedom

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Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of the Haitian Revolution and its role in Napoleon's decision to sell Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe the whole Louisiana Territory, when they sought to buy only New Orleans.

10. Cold War correspondent: Cold War Correspondent

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Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.

11. One dead spy: the life, times, and last words of Nathan Hale, America's most famous spy

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Nathan Hale, the author's historical namesake, was America's first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series, author Nathan Hale channels his namesake to present history's roughest, toughest, and craziest stories in the graphic novel format.

12. Above the Trenches

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In Above the Trenches, author-illustrator Nathan Hale takes to the skies with the flying aces of World War I to reveal another Hazardous Tale in American history in the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series.

"Yippee! We're going back to World War One!" said nobody ever—except maybe the Hangman.

When the Great War began in 1914, America had plans to stay out of it. But some young men...