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One Life
Barbara Winton
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Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story. *Now a major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter*In 1938, 29-year-old "Nicky" cancelled... |
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How Women Made Music
National Public Radio, Inc
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Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music—from Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton—featuring archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations.Turning... |
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Into Unknown Skies
David K. Randall
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"Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America's pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely heroes to bring the dream of world flight to the public imagination."—Wall Street Journal"David... |
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The Highest Calling
David M. Rubenstein
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein—David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including... |
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L.A. '56
Joel Engel
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Los Angeles, 1956. Glamorous. Prosperous. The place to see and be seen. But beneath the shiny exterior beats a dark heart. For when the sun goes down, L.A. becomes the noir city of James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential or Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins novels. Segregation is the unwritten law of the land.... |
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You'll Do
Marcia A. Zug
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An illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage, from the Colonial era through the #MeToo agePerfect for fans of Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca TraisterAmericans hold marriage in such high esteem that we push people toward it, reward them for taking... |
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His Majesty's Airship
S. C. Gwynne
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From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a "captivating, thoroughly researched" (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world's largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British... |
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This America of Ours
Nate Schweber
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Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of America"A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democracy' must be if we are to survive its present state of erosion." –Terry Tempest Williams The untold and "energetic" history of the extraordinary... |
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The Projects of Skunk Works
Steve Pace
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The stories behind more than 50 secret projects undertaken by the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works on behalf of the US Armed Forces, DARPA, and the CIA - all illustrated with official Skunk Works photography and commissioned artworks.Hatched in June 1943 after a special request of the US Army... |
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My Train to Freedom
Ivan A. Backer
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The breathtaking memoir by a member of “Nicky's family," a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning humanitarian and former Episcopal... |
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