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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

Mitchell Zuckoff · Harper Perennial
Pages: 393
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times bestseller!Frozen in Time is a gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La.On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap....
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor

James M Scott · W W Norton
Pages: 672
Format: Print book

Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History. "Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken ... Target Tokyo brings to life an indelible era." -- Ben Cosgrove, The Daily BeastIn December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered...
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Silence of war : an old marine in a young marine's war

Terry Mcgowan · Berkley Pub Group
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

With a Foreword by Bill O'Reilly, here is the incredible memoir of a former Marine who returns to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan three decades after leaving the Corps.Terry McGowan had been a beat cop, a Marine captain, and a Special Agent for the FBI before retiring at the age of fifty....
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Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper

Nicholas Irving · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have...
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

Amy Schumer · Gallery Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,...
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Hillary's America

Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America...
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Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Nathaniel Philbrick · Viking
Pages: 427
Format: Print book

"Valiant Ambition may be one of the greatest what-if books of the age - a volume that turns one of America's best-known narratives on its head." - Boston Globe"Clear and insightful, it consolidates his reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction."...
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Love Warrior

Glennon Doyle Melton · Flatiron Books
Pages: 263
Format: Book

#1 New York Times Bestseller The Newest Oprah Bookclub 2016 Selection The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage. Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel...
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All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

Brennan Manning · David C. Cook
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

On April 27, 1934, a little boy was born who grew up to become a vagabond evangelist in patchwork pants fiercely daring us to believe a line too good to be true - God loves you as you are and not as you should be. His name was Brennan Manning. He boldly preached of the love of Jesus vast,...
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Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

Shauna Niequist · Zondervan
Pages: 252
Format: Book

"The idea of bittersweet is changing the way I live, unraveling and re-weaving the way I understand life. Bittersweet is the idea that in all things there is both something broken and something beautiful, that there is a moment of lightness on even the darkest of nights, a shadow of hope...
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