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Summer of '69

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Follow New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand back in time and join a Nantucket family as they experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a 1960s summer. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century! It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they...
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The Electric Hotel: A Novel

Dominic Smith · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author Dominic Smith, a radiant novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent-film director and his museDominic Smith's The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey -- America's first movie town -- and on the battlefields...
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Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

Daniel C. Guiet · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family...
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Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

John Taliaferro · Liveright
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell -- the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. Hailed by the New York Times as "the father of American conservation," George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) , the Brooklyn-born son of a banker,...
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