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Emperor: The Gates of Rome: A Novel of Julius Caesar
Conn Iggulden - Delta; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys Sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions, Conn Iggulden brings us a magnificent novel of ancient Rome—and of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful... |
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The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
Robert P Watson - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book
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Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Later,... |
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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Steve Sheinkin - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Sheinkin has made a career of finding extraordinary stories in American history." -- The New York Times Book ReviewUndefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story -- and more. It's an unflinching look... |
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Native Son
Richard Wright - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Now an HBO Film!"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr.Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail.... |
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Candace Fleming - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters,... |
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Steve Sheinkin - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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An astonishing World War II military story of civil rights from New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin.A National Book Award FinalistA YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction FinalistA School Library Journal Best Book of the YearOn July 17, 1944, a massive... |
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Potter Craft Books-Once Upon A Knit
Genevieve Miller - Random House Inc
Format: Paperback
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RANDOM HOUSE-Potter Craft Books Once Upon A Knit Iconic fairy- tale characters from storybooks movies and television inspire this collection of magical knitting patterns perfect for modern knights villains and princesses This book contains twenty-eight grimm and glamorous fairy-tale projects... |
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Night Witches: A Novel of World War Two
KATHRYN LASKY - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble.When her mother is killed during... |
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Housekeeping: A Novel
Marilynne Robinson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the PenHemingway AwardA modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote... |
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Echo
Pam MunÌ?oz Ryan - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of a 2016 Newbery Honor, ECHO pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades... |
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "Masterfully crafted" - The Wall Street JournalFor readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's... |
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Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
Pamela S Turner - Charlesbridge
Format: Print book
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Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival... |
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The Book of Unknown Americans: A novel
Cristina HenrÃquez - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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"A triumph of storytelling. Henrquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you've turned the final page."... |
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Frank: The Voice
James Kaplan - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen photographs. Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century - infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth... |
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The Bitter Side of Sweet
Tara Sullivan - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Linda Sue Park and A Long Way Gone, two young boys must escape a life of slavery in modern-day Ivory CoastFifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down... |
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Looking Backward 2000-1887 (Oxford World's Classics)
Edward Bellamy - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the year 2000, America has been turned into a rigorously centralized democratic society in which everything is controlled by a humane and efficient state. In little more... |
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Baby Knits Made Easy
DK Publishing - DK ADULT
Format: Book
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From a sweet bobble pom-pom hat and charming mittens, to a Fair Isle jumper and cuddly rabbit toy, Baby Knits Made Easy shares more than 50 easy projects for knitters. Beginners will welcome the techniques overview, as well as projects that can be whipped out in just a few hours, while... |
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Conn Iggulden - Delacorte Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys He was born Temujin the son of a khan raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe Temujinrsquos young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment... |
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