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Let Me Go
Helga Schneider · Walker & Company; First American Edition edition Pages: 176 Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary memoir, praised across Europe, of a daughter's final encounter with her mother, a former SS guard at Auschwitz. In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider's mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father. Thirty years later-- when she saw her mother again for the first... |
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M Gates · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 618 Format: Hardcover
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From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left... |
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The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
James Hornfischer · Bantam Books Pages: 640 Format: Print book
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The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U. S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower One of America s preeminent military historians, James D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive... |
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Candice Millard · Doubleday Pages: 381 Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime... |
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A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A fatal collision of three lives in the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood In the spring of the quiet suburb of Belmont Massachusetts is rocked by a shocking sex murder that exactly fits the pattern of the Boston Strangler Sensing a break in the case that has paralyzed... |
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
Charles R. Cross · Hyperion; 1ST edition Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from his difficult childhood and adolescence in Seattle through his incredible rise to celebrity... |
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America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
Grant Wacker · Belknap Press Format: Hardcover
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During a career spanning sixty years, the Reverend Billy Grahams resonant voice and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of millions of Americans with a message that called for personal transformation through Gods grace. How did a lanky farm kid from North Carolina become an evangelist... |
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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
Mary V Dearborn · Knopf Pages: 752 Format: Print book
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The first full biography of Ernest Hemingway in more than fifteen years; the first to draw upon a wide array of never-before-used material; the first written by a woman, from the widely acclaimed biographer of Norman Mailer, Peggy Guggenheim, Henry Miller, and Louise Bryant. A revelatory... |
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Diary of a Mad Diva
Joan Rivers · Berkley Pub Group Pages: 289 Format: Print book
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Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified - who the hell does Melissa think she is? That... |
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Madame President
Helene Cooper · Simon & Schuster Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished... |
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