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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

Ruth Goodman · Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From an historian who advised on the BBC's Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England.On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period...
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

H Alan Day · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book

He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that's what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity...
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas

Anand Giridharadas · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of 2014 Kate Tuttles pickNPR, Staff Pick The Dark Side, Science and Society Eye Opening Reads CategoriesAmazon, Best Books of 2014 Nonfiction Imagine that a terrorist...
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The Handy Civil War Answer Book
The Handy Civil War Answer Book

Samuel Willard Crompton · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 410
Format: Paperback

Battles, Blood, Honor, and HeroismThe nation's highest-casualty, bloodiest war is still discussed, studied, and acted out. It continues to affect the political boundaries of today. From the economic, political, and social forces behind the conflict, through the first shots fired at Fort...
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

Doug Mack · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

An eye-opening journey to the most overlooked parts of America.Everyone knows that America is 50 states and ... some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states -- American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin...
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The Dream of the Great American Novel
The Dream of the Great American Novel

Lawrence Buell · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 567
Format: Book

The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction,...
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's First Ladies
First Women: The Grace and Power of America's First Ladies

Kate Andersen Brower · Harper
Pages: 380
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle...
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The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years

Edward Gross · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

This is the unauthorized, uncensored and unbelievable true story behind the making of a pop culture phenomenon. The original Star Trek series debuted in 1966 and has spawned five TV series spin-offs and a dozen feature films, with an upcoming one from Paramount arriving in 2016. The Fifty-Year...
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Shock Factor: American Snipers in the War on Terror
Shock Factor: American Snipers in the War on Terror

Jack Coughlin · St. Martin's Press; First Editon: November 2014 edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Shooter, comes a riveting narrative of how snipers have changed the course of America's war on al Qaida in the Middle East and Africa.Retired Marine sniper Jack Coughlin (Shooter) and John Bruning pull back the curtain of secrecy...
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present

John Pomfret · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 704
Format: Print book

A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's...
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Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill

Mark Lee Gardner · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The first definitive account of this legendary fighting force and its extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Lee Gardner's Rough Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and compulsively readable. Its dramatic unfolding of a familiar, yet not-fully-known story will...
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Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair
Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Howe and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair

Miki Pfeffer · Univ Pr Of Mississippi
Pages: 282
Format: Print book

Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and interactions played out as a drama...
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Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press
Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

Richard Kluger · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The untold story of the battle to legalize free expression in America by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ashes to Ashes.The liberty of written and spoken expression has been fixed in the firmament of our social values since our nation's beginning -- the government of the United...
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Paper: Paging Through History
Paper: Paging Through History

Mark Kurlansky · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 389
Format: Print book

From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more...
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