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Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of WWII

CLAY BONNYMAN EVANS CLAY BONNYMAN EVANS · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In November 1943, Marine 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. was mortally wounded while leading a successful assault on a critical Japanese fortification on the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor. The brutal, bloody...
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Trials of the Earth The True Story of a Pioneer Woman.

Hamilton Mary Mann. · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family and make a home in the early American SouthNear the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta....
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Coping with Anxiety: Ten Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear, and Worry

Edmund Bourne · New Harbinger Pub, 2016.
Pages: 184
Format: Print book

Relieve anxiety, fear, and worry for good! Fully revised and based in the latest research, this second edition of Coping with Anxiety includes the latest DSM updates and provides immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies to stop anxiety at its source.If you suffer from anxiety,...
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Cooking with Nonna: Celebrate Food & Family With Over 100 Classic Recipes from Italian Grandmothers

Rossella Rago · Race Point Pub
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

To Rossella Rago, host of Cooking with Nonna, Italian cooking was never just about the amazing food or Sunday dinner; it was also about family, community, and tradition. Rossella grew up cooking with her Nonna Romana every Sunday, where she learned the traditional recipes of the Italian...
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Golden Days: West's Lakers, Steph's Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball

JACK MCCALLUM · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Dream Team tells the interconnected stories of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the early-1970s Los Angeles Lakers, two extraordinary teams playing in extraordinary times and linked by one extraordinary man: Jerry West. During their 1971-72 championship...
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Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

AMY CHOZICK · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton's pursuit of the presidency. Chozick's front-row seat, initially covering Clinton's imploding 2008 campaign, and then her assignment to "The Hillary Beat" ahead of the 2016 election, took...
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Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir

JOHN BANVILLE · Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.As much about the life of the city as it is about a life...
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Richard III: England's Most Controversial King

CHRIS SKIDMORE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare...
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Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P

Robert W. Gehl · The MIT Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An exploration of the Dark Web -- websites accessible only with special routing software -- that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.The term "Dark Web" conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl...
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Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art

Michael Shnayerson · PublicAffairs
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world-for contemporary art-is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes. The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar...
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

DAVID YAFFE · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty...
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Home Cheese Making, 4th Edition: From Fresh and Soft to Firm, Blue, Goat's Milk, and More; Recipes for 100 Favorite Cheeses

Ricki Carroll · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Widely acclaimed as "the Cheese Queen," Ricki Carroll has guided thousands of home cheese makers and inspired the burgeoning popularity of artisanal cheese making with her classic book, Home Cheese Making, first published in 1982, with over 400,000 copies in print. The completely...
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Race Cars

Cody Crane · Childrens Pr
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

"Learn all about race cars, from how they are designed and built to which exciting new kinds of cars you might see in the future"--
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Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker

Stephen Galloway · Harmony Books
Pages: 416
Format: Book

The definitive biography of movie executive and philanthropist Sherry Lansing traces her groundbreaking journey to become the first female head of a major motion picture studio, shares behind-the-scenes tales from movie sets and Hollywood boardrooms, and explains what inspired her to walk...
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1917: War, Peace, and Revolution

D Stevenson · Oxford University Press
Pages: 430
Format: Hardcover

1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War I David Stevenson examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows...
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