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Conquering Jerusalem

Stephen Dando-Collins · ‎Turner
Format: Hardcover

Dando-Collins details the conflict from both sides of the 7-year campaign. His examination of the revolt draws upon numerous archaeological and forensic discoveries made in recent years to illuminate the people and events as never before. Neither side emerges from the conflict unscathed....
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

Dean Jobb · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals," Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. "He has nerve and he has knowledge." In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United...
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Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith

Obery M. Hendricks Jr. · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Throughout his distinguished career, Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. has been a pillar of moral clarity for many overlapping communities: African Americans, religious scholars, Christians of all backgrounds, political leaders, journalists, and his many readers. Now, in these pages, he rejects the "anti-Christ"...
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Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. Fourth Edition. Volume One, Families A-F, Part B

John Frederick Dorman · ‎Genealogical Publishing Company; 4th edition
Format: Paperback

Dorman, John Frederick
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The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars

Ken Sullivan · ‎Pictorial Histories Publishing Co.

Goldenseal magazine published some of the best articles ever written about the tragedy of the West Virginia mine wars. This book is a compilation of 19 of those articles, traveling from the governor s office in Charleston to the blood-stained steps of the McDowell County Courthouse. Well-illustrated...
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Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II

Adam Makos · Berkley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The book presents accounts of heroism and honor as told by World War II veterans Sid Phillips, R.V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum - whose exploits were featured in the HBO mini-series The Pacific - and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division.These Marines trace the action...
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Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany

James M. Fenelon · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of darting fighters, the armada of transport planes carried 17,000 troops to be dropped, via parachute and glider, on the far banks of the Rhine River....
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Kai Bird · ‎Crown
Format: Hardcover

Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter...
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Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus

Les Standiford · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created one of our country's most beloved pastimes.In Battle for the Big Top, New York...
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective...
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