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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 368
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The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John... |
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American Will: The Forgotten Choices That Changed Our Republic
Bobby Jindal · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a much-talked-about 2016 presidential candidate, offers fourteen lessons from our nation's past and discusses how they can be used to restore American courage, faith, and wisdom.Nearly forty-five years ago, Bobby Jindal's parents left their home... |
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
Susanna Moore · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
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"The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds... |
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50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.
Brent D. Glass · Simon & Schuster
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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 End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer's
Jay Ingram · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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It is a wicked disease that robs its victims of their memories, their ability to think clearly, and ultimately their lives. For centuries, those afflicted by Alzheimer's disease have suffered its debilitating effects while family members sit by, watching their loved ones disappear a little... |
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Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency
Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power -- and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down. Just two months into his presidency,... |
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Charles Spencer · Bloomsbury Press; 1St Edition edition
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On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwells army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers... |
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
Judith Flanders · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian CityThe idea that "home" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true... |
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Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Lee Jackson · Yale University Press
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In Victorian London, filth was everywhere horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with night soil, graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish · Scribner
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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A comprehensive biography of Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the presidential election campaign. Trump Revealed will be reported by a team of award-winning Washington Post journalists and co-authored by investigative political reporter Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc... |
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