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American Mercenary: The Riveting, High-Risk World of an Elite SEAL Team Operator Turned Hired Gun

Daniel Corbett - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

An elite Navy SEAL Team 6 operator trained to kill the United States' most dangerous enemies takes readers inside the unadulterated, morally complicated and riveting post-military adventures of a lethal American mercenary.. In American Mercenary, Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild...
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The Crimson and Gold: Football and Integration in Athens, Georgia

Mark Clegg - University of Georgia Press
Format: Paperback

The Crimson and Gold is a comprehensive narrative detailing the struggle for integration in Athens, Georgia, in the context of highly competitive football as experienced by athletes, their fellow students, teachers, journalists, and school administrators at (predominantly White) Athens...
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President

Edward F. O'Keefe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal...
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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

Bill O'Reilly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today nonfiction bestseller!Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series...
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American Ghoul

Michelle McGill-Vargas - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas, American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary - with a dash of a buddy comedy - in an innovative twist on the vampire genre.You can't kill someone who's already dead.That's what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer...
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America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History

Dana Bash - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

"Let chaos come.". From CNN's Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, the fast-paced story of the extraordinary election that led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, two governors of Louisiana - and changed the course of politics in our country.....
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How the World Made the West

Josephine Quinn - ‎Random House
Format: Hardcover


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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Evan Friss - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." - Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are Magic. An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American...
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A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

Deb Miller Landau - Pegasus Crime
Format: Hardcover

A riveting narrative that pieces together the life and murder of Black socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan - and the journey to bring her true killer to justice. . The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other...
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

Heather Cox Richardson - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction. While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....
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