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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Kathleen DuVal · Random House
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's... |
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Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence
Jack Kelly · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were... |
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
Sulome Anderson · Dey Street Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United... |
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Hunting Charles Manson: The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter
Lis W Wiehl · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl uses new research and first-hand interviews to tell the heart-pounding story of Charles Manson's horrific crimes, the painstaking investigation that followed, and the inspired prosecution that put him away.In... |
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Change of Seasons: A Memoir
John Oates · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock 'n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never... |
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Marley & Me Illustrated Edition: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
John Grogan · William Morrow
Pages: 305
Format: Hardcover
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This beautiful illustrated gift edition features:a beautiful cloth covera unique dog leash bookmark ribbonfull-color photos throughouta special note from the authorthe newspaper column that started it all....A Gift from the Heart, A Treasure for All TimeJohn Grogan touched our hearts with... |
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
Greg King · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War IIn the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished... |
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
Mark Sundeen · Riverhead Books
Pages: 324
Format: Print book
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The radical search for the simple life in today's America. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound... |
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Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader
Robert Middlekauff · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, insightful, essential new account of the formative years that shaped a callow George Washington into an extraordinary leader, from the Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff.George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind... |
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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
Denise George · Tyndale House Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she had kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust. This book reveals that story. Nonna’s childhood writings, revisited in her late adulthood, tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian... |
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27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
Howard Sounes · Da Capo Press; First Thus edition
Format: Hardcover
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When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobains mother named the 27 Club. Now hes gone and joined that stupid club, she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. I told... |
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The Victorian and the Romantic: A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time
Nell Stevens · Doubleday
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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History meets memoir in two irresistible true-life romances--one set in 19th century Rome, one in present-day Paris and London--linked by a bond between women writers a hundred years apartIn 1857, English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell completed her most famous work: the biography of her dear... |
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Victoria: A Life
A. N. Wilson · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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PENJacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015 LONGLISTA shimmering and rather wonderful biography. --The Guardian UK When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe... |
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