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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Vietnam
DK Travel · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this compelling country.Explore the legacy of the Nguyen Dynasty at the Imperial City, take a boat trip to offshore islands, wander Ho Chi Minh City,... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller
A New York Times Notable and Critics' Top Book of 2016
Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On
NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016's Great Reads
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Hitler?s Ardennes Offensive: The German View of the Battle of the Bulge
Danny S Parker · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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In this gripping, unusual volume, insight into the Battle of the Bulge is told through firsthand accounts by German officers. The battle, a major German offensive, caught the allied forces off-guard in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg and, lasting from December 1945-January 1945, had devastating... |
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 896
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
Alexis Coe · Pulp/Zest Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasnt her crime that shocked the nation—it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered,... |
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Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch: 30 Daring Designs to Celebrate Strong Women
Anna Fleiss · Running Press
Pages: 120
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing women take center stage in Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch, a collection of stylish patterns and capsule biographies that celebrates some of our favorite lady heroes.
Feminism is back in the spotlight, and powerful women, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Malala Yousafzai... |
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The Prometheus Bomb: The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark
Neil J Sullivan · Potomac Books
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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During World War II, the lives of millions of Americans lay precariously in the hands of a few brilliant scientists who raced to develop the first weapon of mass destruction. Elected officials gave the scientists free rein in the Manhattan Project without understanding the complexities... |
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The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship
Jill Farinelli · UPNE
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. The ship carried emigrants from the Palatinate and its neighboring territories in what... |
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Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
D M Giangreco · Naval Institute Press
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover
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Two years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.S. planners began work on Operation Downfall, codename for the Allied invasions of Kyushu and Honshu, in the Japanese home islands. While other books have examined... |
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Brockton
James E. Benson · Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
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First gaining notoriety as the "shoe city, " Brockton grew and flourished toward the end of the 19th century. As the halcyon days of the shoe industry waned, however, Brockton experienced many changes. After World War II, major residential development took place in the form of affordable... |
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