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A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book

John Barton
Format: Hardcover

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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

Jon Meacham · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw...
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Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force

Dan Schilling · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of 23 comrades-in-arms.In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot...
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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History

Peter Houlahan · Counterpoint
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

Norco '80 is a gripping true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in US history. Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men -- led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian -- attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events...
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Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington's War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia's Death to Justice Kavanaugh

Carl Hulse · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Chief Washington Correspondent for the New York Times presents a richly detailed, news-breaking, and conversation-changing look at the unprecedented political fight to fill the Supreme Court seat made vacant by Antonin Scalia's death - using it to explain the paralyzing and all but irreversible...
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery

Tom Cotton · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon...
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The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation

Rich Cohen · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Was he New York City's last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, port by port - for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire.Handsome and charismatic, Albert Hicks had long been known in the dive...
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

Elliot Ackerman · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria."War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names,...
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The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America

Jim Acosta · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From CNN's veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump's war on truth. In Mr. Trump's campaign against what he calls "Fake News,"...
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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

Jeffrey Ostler · Yale University Press
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansion In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned...
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The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation - A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy

J. Randy Taraborrelli · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes The Kennedy Heirs, his most revealing Kennedy book yet.A unique burden was inherited by the children of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his celebrated siblings, Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy. Raised in a world of enormous...
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This America: The Case for the Nation

Jill Lepore · Liveright
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This...
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

Brenda Wineapple · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president." - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated...
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