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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated...
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams

Louisa Thomas · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the British-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson...
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50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.

Brent D. Glass · Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain - selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.From Massachusetts to Florida...
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The Second World War in 100 Objects: The Story of the World's Greatest Conflict Told Through the Objects That Shaped It

Julian Thompson · Andre Deutsch
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

See the history of World War II in an entirely new way: through 100 carefully chosen items, from the public to the deeply, poignantly personal. Selected by two specialists in military history, this book offers a unique perspective on the Second World War by tracing its history through objects...
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Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History

Saul David · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military historian Saul David.
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L'Histoire Et La Genealogie de La Famille Gravois

Roland Anthony Gravois · Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Pages: 774

This book, which spans three-hundred years and fourteen generations, skillfully combines family history and genealogy to give the reader an insight into the lives of the various generations as the Gravois family multiplied and prospered since the first ones arrived in Louisiana in 1766....
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

Mary Elise Sarotte · Basic Books
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover

On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall - infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe - seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates...
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

Nick Bunker · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded...
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Clancys of queens

Tara Clancy · Crown
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited...
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March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution

Will Englund · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover

A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I."We are provincials no longer," declared Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inauguration. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance...
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Devils Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s

Stanley Nelson · Louisiana State University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building...
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History

Geoffrey C Ward · Knopf
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than forty...
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The Selling of the Babe: The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend

Glenn Stout · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

The complete story surrounding the most famous and significant player transaction in professional sports. The sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 is one of the pivotal moments in baseball history, changing the fortunes of two of baseball's most storied...
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Racial & Ethnic Relations in America, Second Edition

Kibibi Mack-Shelton · Salem Pr
Pages: 1550
Format: Hardcover

Completely updated, this comprehensive work illuminates the many concepts, themes, and issues in race relations in America, both from a historical perspective and in today's modern society. The three volumes of Racial & Ethnic Relations in America discuss the history of race relations...
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Growing Up in South Louisana

Trent Angers · Acadian House Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A 176-page hardcover book describing what life was like growing up in south Louisiana in the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s. Some 20 authors help paint the picture: eating Sunday dinner at grandma's, hearing Cajun French spoken in the home, working on the farm before school, attending fais...
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