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A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi Germany

Peter Finn · Pantheon
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the co-author of The Zhivago Affair, a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, comes the dramatic story of a South Carolina heiress who joined the OSS and became the first American woman in uniform taken prisoner on the Western front - until her escape from Nazi Germany....
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Navy SEALs: The Combat History of the Deadliest Warriors on the Planet

Mann, Don · Skyhorse
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In a world where acts of terror have become all too commonplace, America has turned to the elite warriors of special operations to lead the fight and hunt down those whose very ideology is one of hate for everything our nation stands for. Among those units one stands apart from the rest,...
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More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work that Uncovers Your True Beauty

Campbell, Erica · Howard Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Grammy-winning gospel singer, television star, and radio host Erica Campbell speaks to women of all shapes and sizes, demonstrating that true beauty is found not in external appearances, but in celebrating the person God made you to be.So many young women struggle with issues of low self-esteem,...
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Year of the Monkey

Smith, Patti · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti...
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The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg

Randolph, Eleanor · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

With unprecedented access, the veteran New York Times reporter and editorial writer who covered New York City and state politics offers a revealing portrait of one of the richest and famously private/public figures in the country. Business genius, inventor, innovator, publisher, philanthropist,...
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Kinzer, Stephen · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted...
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Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Billy Jensen · Sourcebooks
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller. Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect?Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote...
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The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

Power, Samantha · Dey Street Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy." The Education of an Idealist...
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Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music

Crawford, Richard · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The life of a beloved American composer reflected through his music, writings, and letters.New York City native and gifted pianist George Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway, where he fashioned his own brand of American music....
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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

Patricia Wiltshire · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist.From mud tracks on a quiet...
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