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The Lowells of Massachusetts: An American Family
Nina Sankovitch · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s. For the first time,... |
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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS
Nada Bakos · Little
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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The story of a young woman from Montana who joined the CIA and worked her way up through the ranks to the frontline of the fight against Islamic extremists. In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity... |
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN · BALLANTINE
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution - from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even his grandfatherly... |
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The Real Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
Andrew Marr · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her reignElizabeth II, one of England's longest-reigning monarchs, is an enigma. In public, she confines herself to optimistic pieties... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
Richard Preston · Ballantine Books
Pages: 292
Format: Book
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"The bard of biological weapons capturesthe drama of the front lines."-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navyThe first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find... |
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Colin G Calloway · Oxford University Press
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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In this sweeping new biography, Colin Calloway uses the prism of George Washington's life to bring focus to the great Native leaders of his time--Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Little Turtle--and the tribes they represented: the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape,... |
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The Guns of August
Barbara W Tuchman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 511
Format: Paperback
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeThe Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War eraIn this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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African American Inhabitants of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, 15 June to 4 Sept 1870
Harry F. Dill · Heritage Books, Inc
Format: Book
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This book deals with numerous reasons for the area's growth after the Civil War, from about 1870 to 1890. Part One covers southwest Virginia and begins with a history of the first settlers in the region, their way of life, their troubles with the Indians, and the formation of the first... |
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