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The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power, and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527

Leonie Frieda · Harper
Format: Hardcover

From Leonie Frieda, critically acclaimed biographer of Catherine de Medici, comes The Deadly Sisterhood: an epic tale of eight women whose lives—marked by fortune and poverty, power and powerlessness—encompass the spectacle, opportunity, and depravity of Italy’s Renaissance.Lucrezia...
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50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

Steven Pressman · Harpercollins
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939 - the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States - for readers of In the Garden...
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse

Piu Marie Eatwell · Head of Zeus
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled, and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras  In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation...
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Seven American Deaths and Disasters

Kenneth Goldsmith · powerHouse Books
Format: Paperback

What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic...
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The Glass Universe

Dava Sobel · Viking
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian,...
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The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving

Leigh Gallagher · Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

“The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.” For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle...
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The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution

David Lefer · Sentinel HC
Format: Print book

“It is not only the cause, but our manner of conducting it, that will establish character.” —John Dickinson, 1773   A nation at war and widespread mistrust of the mil­itary. A financial crash and an endless economic crisis. A Congress so divided it barely functioned....
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Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I

William T Walker Jr · Scribner
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

The work of a lifetime: A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever - World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive - and the 100-year-old cover-up at its heart.The year is 1918. German engineers have fortified Montfaucon, a rocky butte in northern...
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Uncontainable: How Passion, Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone Thrives

Kip Tindell · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Youre going to sell what? Empty Boxes?Back in 1978, Kip Tindell Chairman CEO of The Container Store and his partners had the vision that people were eager to find solutions to save both space and time - and they were definitely onto something. A new category of the retailing industry was born...
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Smithsonian Treasures of American History

Kathleen M Kendrick · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 120
Format: Print book

The National Museum of American History--our country's largest history museum and one of the Smithsonian's most visited--preserves three million objects that capture the American story. From this vast collection, curators have handpicked more than 150 of the Museum's most...
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

Konrad H. Jarausch · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued...
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789

Edward Larson · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first...
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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

Mac Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Mac Griswold’s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England...
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When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History's Unknown Chapters

Giles Milton · Picador Usa
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

More addictive and mind-blowing true tales from history, told by Giles Milton -- one of today's most entertaining and accessible yet always intelligent and illuminating historiansIn the second installment in his outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters, Giles...
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The Secret History of World War II: Spies, Code Breakers, and Covert Operations

Neil Kagan · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From spy missions to code breaking, this richly illustrated account of the covert operations of World War II takes readers behind the battle lines and deep into the undercover war effort that changed the course of history. From the authors who created Eyewitness to World War II and numerous...
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