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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

Laurie Edwards · Walker & Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million...
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes · Pantheon Books
Pages: 552
Format: Print book

A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping...
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A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

EMILY MIDORIKAWA · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney...
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The Long Road Home

Martha Raddatz · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

NOW A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MINISERIES EVENTABC News' Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz shares remarkable tales of heroism, hope, and heartbreak in her account of "Black Sunday" - a battle during one of the deadliest periods of the Iraq war. The First Cavalry Division...
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Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat

Randall S Peffer · Berkley Calibre
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle in which it was sunk. On April 16, 1944, the SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk...
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American Entrepreneur: How 400 Years of Risk-Takers, Innovators, and Business Visionaries Built the U.S.A.

Willie Robertson · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The CEO of Duck Commander and star of Duck Dynasty tells the stories of the extraordinary men and women who symbolize the American entrepreneurial spirit. 100,000 first printing.
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Holocaust

Tandy McConnell · St James Press
Format: Hardcover

Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers the Holocaust. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history...
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A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome

Letitia Baldrige · Viking
Pages: 292
Format: Book

Letitia Baldrige is well known for her bestselling books on etiquette and is a much sought-after commentator on American style. Now, she writes of her life as a tenacious and successful woman who worked behind the scenes in some of the most exciting places after World War II and at the height...
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Washington's Golden Age: Hope Ridings Miller, the Society Beat, and the Rise of Women Journalists

Joseph Dalton · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

Real news traveled fast, even in the days before internet connections. During the New Deal and World War II, Washington elites turned to Hope Ridings Miller's column in the Washington Post to see what was really going on in town. Cocktail parties, embassy receptions and formal dinners...
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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

Robert K Massie · Random House
Pages: 880
Format: Book

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power...
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The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm

Juliet Nicolson · Grove Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer a century ago when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. Through the tight lens of four months, Juliet Nicolson’s rich storytelling gifts rivet us with the sights, colors, and feelings of a bygone era. That summer...
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