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New Titles - History
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Warrior Pups: True Stories of America's K9 Heroes
Kamen, Jeff · Lyons Press
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
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Lavishly illustrated with full-color photos throughout, Warrior Pups takes you behind-the-scenes into the lives of the fiercely dedicated military men and women and their civilian supporters who make the US Military Working Dog program the success that it is. It has been estimated that... |
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Hardened to Hickory: The Missing Chapter in Andrew Jackson's Life
Tony L Turnbow · Tony L. Turnbow
Pages: 602
Format: Hardcover
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Unpublished documents reveal an Andrew Jackson who committed mutiny and shed tears as he thought his mistakes would lead to the deaths of teenage soldiers under his command. Indians saved him. The backwoods Jackson, who had never commanded a battle, presumed to take on the mantle of General... |
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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
Sue Roe · Penguin Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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As she did for the Modernists IN MONTMARTRE, noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse. In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalí's Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary... |
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
Deparle, Jason · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas and her family in the Manila slums thirty years... |
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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS
Bakos, Nada · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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How a young woman from Montana joined the CIA, working her way up the ranks to the frontlines of the war on Islamic extremists.In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work,... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Southwest USA and National Parks
Dk Travel · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksDiscover Southwest USA with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to the region before you've even packed your case - drive through the stunning landscapes, taking in the Grand... |
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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
Cockrell, Dale · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Racy scholarship does the Grizzly Bear here with theoretical rigor." -- William Lhamon, author of Raising CainEverybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York City. It traces the birth... |
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Keep the Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW
Strang, Dean · University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deputize strikebreakers or call out the state militia, usually at the bidding of employers. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917,... |
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