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    George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation

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    Pocket-sized hardcover with 30 pages including cover page and epilogue. Copyright 2019 Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union and Applewood ...

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    Mount Vernon, Official Guidebook

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    The Mount Vernon Official Guidebook contains 208 pages filled with beautiful color photography of George Washington's Mount Vernon bound in a sturd...

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    Dining with the Washingtons - Signed Copy

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    Mount Vernon's best selling definitive entertaining and cookbook combines vivid photography and engaging essays to shed fresh light on the daily li...

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    The General in the Garden

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    Edited by Susan P. Schoelwer, Senior Curator at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Foreword by Andrea Wulf. ISBN-13: 978-0931917486. Hardcover with ...

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    Mount Vernon Love Story

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    By Mary Higgins Clark. ISBN 0-931917-40-9.  Copyright 1968, 2002 by The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Copyright renewed 1996. Hardcover with 22...

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    The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret

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    Mary V. Thompson. George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon. ISBN: 978-0-8139-4184-4. Hardcover 520 pages. Copyright 2...

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    George Washington's Farewell Address

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    “George Washington’s Farewell Address” ISBN 978-1-55709-454-4. Copyright 1999. Pocket-sized hardcover edition with 34 pages.  On September 19, 1796...

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    The Founding Fathers Quotes, Quips, and Speeches

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    Edited by Gordon Leidner. ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-8009-2. Copyright 2013 Hardcover with 155 pages including endnotes. This little volume is filled with...

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    My Little Golden Book About George Washington

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    My Little Golden Book About George Washington. By Lori H. Houran. Illustrated by Viviana Garofoli. ISBN 978-1-101-93969-7. Copyright 2016. Hardcove...

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    Constitution of the United States Pocket Edition

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    The Constitution of the United States of America. ISBN 978-1-55709-105-5. Pocket sized hardcover edition with 30 pages. The National Archives and ...

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    Acts of Congress 1789: Special Edition

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    George Washington's copy of The Acts of Congress 1789 was acquired by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association on June 22, 2012, for the Fred W. Smith ...

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    Washington: A Life

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    Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow. ISBN 978-0-14-311996-8. Softcover with 904 pages including notes, bibliography, and index. Copyright 2010. 2011 ...

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    Signers of the U.S. Constitution

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    “The Signers of the Constitution of The United States of America.” ISBN 978-1-4290-9532-7. Copyright 2020. Pocket-sized hardcover edition with 37 p...

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    George Washington's Spy: A Time Travel Adventure

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    By Elvira Woodruff. ISBN 978-0-545-10487-6. Copyright 2010. Softcover with 229 pages including notes, glossary, and bibliography.     Ten-year-old ...

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    Martha Washington: An American Life

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    By Patricia Brady. ISBN 978-0-14-303713-2. Copyright 2005. Softcover with 276 pages including 18 photographs. Patricia Brady's meticulously researc...

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    George Washington: Pioneer Farmer Coloring Book

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    By Babs Gaillard McNear. ISBN 0-931917-27-1. Copyright 1996. Softcover with 32 pages. Farm scenes from Mount Vernon are pictured and described on e...

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    George Washington and the General's Dog

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    By Frank Murphy. Illustrated by Richard Walz. ISBN 0-375-81015-3. Copyright 2002.  Softcover with 48 pages and 31 illustrations.   What happened wh...

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    Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery

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    Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Bruce A. Ragsdale – Copyright 2021 – ISBN 9780674246386 – Hardcover. W...

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    Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery

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    Transcribed by Karen Hess. ISBN 0-231-04931-5. Copyright 1981, 1995. Softcover with 518 pages.   Martha Washington's recipes: More than five hundre...

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    Alexander Hamilton

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    By Ron Chernow. ISBN 978-0-14-303475-9. Copyright 2004. Softcover with 818 pages including notes, bibliography, and index. Winner of the 2005 Georg...

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    Mount Vernon's Magnificent Menagerie

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    By Linda Burgess. Illustrated by Maggie Dunlap. ISBN 978-0-931917-31-8. Copyright 2012. Hardcover with 48 pages including 25 colorful, high-gloss s...

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    Washington's Spies

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    By Alexander Rose. ISBN 978-0-553-39259-3. Copyright 2006. Softcover with 369 pages including notes, bibliography, and index.   In the summer of 17...

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    Stuff Every American Should Know

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    A pocket-sized gift book packed with patriotic facts for all Americans and history buffs alike. Copyright 2012. Leatherette cover book measuring 3-...

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    Founding Gardeners

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    By Andrea Wulf. ISBN 978-0-307-39068-4. Copyright 2011. Softcover with 349 pages including 19 black and white illustrations, bibliography, notes, c...

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    A Short Biography of Martha Washington

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    By Mary V. Thompson, Mount Vernon's Research Historian. ISBN 978-1-944038-24-3. Copyright 2017. Hardcover with 28 pages. Martha Washington, the wor...

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    Presidential Pets

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    Presidential Pets: The Weird, Wacky, Little, Big, Scary, Strange Animals That Have Lived in the White House. By Julie Moberg. Illustrated by Jeff A...

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    Mount Vernon Revisited: Images

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    By Jessie Biele and Michael K. Bohn. ISBN 97801-4671-2113-2. Copyright 2014. Softcover with 127 pages. The Mount Vernon community in Fairfax Count...

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    Revolution: Mapping the Road to Independence

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    By Richard Brown and Paul E. Cohen. ISBN 978-0-393-060324. Hardbound with 150 pages including the index and great map illustrations. The spectacula...

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    Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

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    "Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom" by Russell Shorto. ISBN 978-0-393-24554-7. Copyright 2018. Hardcover with 622 pages including notes,...

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    Washington, DC

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    By Impact Photographics, Inc. ISBN-13 978-1-60068-247-6. Copyright 2008.  Hardcover with 54 pages of captioned color photographs.   A compact book ...

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    George Washington's Liberty Key

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    "George Washington's Liberty Key: Mount Vernon's Bastille Key: the Mystery and Magic of Its Body, Mind, and Soul" by William J. Bahr. ISBN: 9781537...

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    Red Truck Bakery Cookbook

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    Red Truck Bakery: Gold-Standard Recipes from America’s Favorite Rural Bakery” by Brian Noyes. ISBN 978-0-8041-8961-3. Copyright 2018. Hardcover 224...

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    Where Was George Washington?

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    By Carla Heymsfeld. Illustrations by Jennifer Koury. ISBN 0-931917-21-2.   Copyright 1992. Softcover with 34 pages.   Liberty, the Mount Vernon cat...

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    Never Caught: Ona Judge

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    "Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" by Erica Armstrong Dunbar. ISBN 9781501126413. Copyright 2017...

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    Who Was George Washington

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    By Roberta Edwards. Illustrated by True Kelley. ISBN 978-0-448-44892-3. Copyright 2009. Softcover with 104 pages including timeline and bibliograph...

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    George Washington's Socks

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    George Washington's Socks: A Time Travel Adventure by Elvira Woodruff. ISBN 978-0-590-44036-3. Copyright 1991. Softcover with 166 pages. A mysterio...

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    His Excellency: George Washington

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    By Joseph J. Ellis. Softcover, ISBN 1-4000-3253-9, with 320 pages and 12 illustrations. Copyright 2004. Drawing from the newly cataloged Washington...

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    Revolutionary Mothers

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    Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. By Carol Berkin. ISBN 978-1-4000-7532-4. Copyright 2005. Softcover with 19...

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    First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity

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    2023 George Washington Prize Winner First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity by Maurizio Valsania – Hardcover – Octo...

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    Call Sign Chaos

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    "Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead" by Jim Mattis and Bing West. ISBN 978-0-8129-9683-8. Copyright 2019. Hardcover 320 pages. A clear-eyed account ...

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    George Washington's Leadership Lessons

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    By James C. Rees with Stephen Spignesi. ISBN 978-0-470-08887-6. Copyright 2007. Hardcover with 214 pages including 8 illustrated pages, bibliograph...

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    George Washington's Rules to Live By

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    By K.M. Kostyal. Illustrated by Fred Harper. Foreword by Lizzie Post of the Emily Post Institute. ISBN 978-1-4263-1500-8. Copyright 2014. Hardcover...

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    First And Always

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    “First and Always: A New Portrait of George Washington.” By Peter R. Henriques.  ISBN:  978-0-8139-4480-7. Copyright 2020. Hardcover 240 pages. Geo...

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    The First Conspiracy

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    The First Conspiracy - The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. ISBN 978-1-250-13033-4. Hardcover with 413 pages....

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    Washington's Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution, 1775-1777 by Jason Q. Bohm

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    The fighting prowess of United States Marines is second to none, but few know of the Corps’ humble beginnings and what it achieved during the earl...

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    Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778

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    Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 by Ricardo A. Herrera  – Copyright 2022 – ISBN 9781469667317 – Hardcover. In t...

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    Old Favorite Honey Recipes

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    Iowa Honey Producers Association. Over 250 Great Recipes from Beekeepers and Cooks. ISBN 978-0-914875-55-0. Softcover 138 pages. Copyright 2010. Th...

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    The Book of Corn Cookery

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    By Mary L. Wade. ISBN 978-0-914875-48-2. Copyright 1917. Softcover with 105 pages including index.   First published in 1918, the Book of Corn Cook...

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