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The Spies of Shilling Lane: A Novel
Jennifer Ryan · Crown
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a thrilling new WWII story about a village busybody - the mighty Mrs. Braithwaite - who resolves to find, and then rescue, her missing daughter
Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village,... |
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The Summer Country: A Novel
Lauren Willig · William Morrow
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet - a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.
Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous... |
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Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
Ray Lambert · HarperLuxe
Pages: 448
Format: Large Print
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AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNFORGETTABLE NEW FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF D-DAY Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs of our time, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated... |
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Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times
Scott Pelley · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring memoir from the front lines of history by award-winning 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley
Don't ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what's the meaning of you?
With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people who discovered... |
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Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.
Robert Jan van Pelt · Abbeville Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world. It is the catalogue of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people -- mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others -- lost their lives. More than 280 objects... |
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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer · Knopf
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan
Richard Holbrooke... |
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Susan Ware · Belknap Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land. For far too long, the history of how American... |
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe
James Holland · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th... |
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