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Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W Sears · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 866
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals... |
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Yvette Johnson · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather and why he was murdered - a case that became the basis for the documentary Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, which the Los Angeles Times called "a powerful personal portrait.""Have... |
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The Other Side: A Memoir
Lacy M. Johnson · Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night.... |
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The Lost Tudor Princess : The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
Alison Weir · Ballantine Books
Pages: 537
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT * From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence... |
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Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism
John Norris · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A wildly entertaining biography of the trailblazing Washington columnist and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary Before there was Maureen Dowd or Gail Collins or Molly Ivins, there was Mary McGrory. She was a trailblazing columnist who achieved national syndication... |
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Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Megan Marshall · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets Since her death in 1979, Elizabeth Bishop, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime, has become one of America's best-loved poets. And yet - painfully shy and living out of public... |
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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific... |
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Food, Health and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life
Oprah Winfrey · Flatiron Books
Pages: 231
Format: Hardcover
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Oprah Winfrey will be the first to tell you, she has had a complicated relationship with food. It's been both a source of delight and comfort for her, but also the cause of an ongoing struggle with her weight. In Food, Health, and Happiness, Oprah shares the recipes that have allowed eating... |
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American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church
Alex Beam · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
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On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.At thirty-nine years... |
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The Bridge Builder: The Life and Continuing Legacy of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
Zev Chafets · Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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The amazing story of Yechiel Eckstein, a Chicago-based orthodox rabbi who founded the world's largest philanthropic organization of Evangelical Christians in support of Israel.When the Anti-Defamation League sent a young Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein to Chicago to foster interfaith relations... |
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Joan of Arc: A History
Helen Castor · Harper; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world - as never told before.Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French... |
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Gareth Russell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political... |
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The Elephants in My Backyard: A Memoir
Rajiv Surendra · Regan Arts
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming... |
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Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Pamela Hicks · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A magical memoir about a singular childhood in England and India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten Few families can boast of not one but two saints among their ancestors, a great-aunt who was the last tsarina of Russia, a father who was Grace Kellys pinup, and a grandmother... |
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