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New in Ebooks - History
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Mary Ball Washington
Shirley, Craig
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The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history’s most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington’s first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother. Stubborn,... |
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Jubilee
Toni Tipton-Martin
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"A celebration of African American cuisine right now, in all of its abundance and variety."—Tejal Rao, The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The New YorkerNPRThe Atlantic Throughout her career, Toni Tipton-Martin has shed... |
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Before and After
Christie, Judy; Wingate, Lisa
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The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach
From the 1920s to 1950,... |
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No Stopping Us Now
Gail Collins
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"Gail Collins inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist (Parade Magazine)"You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised... |
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Return to the Reich
Lichtblau, Eric
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The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines.
Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made... |
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Brooklyn
Thomas J. Campanella
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An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest... |
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The Club
Leo Damrosch
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Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of "the Club," a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernIn 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
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One of AudioFile's Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
David Treuer
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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCEA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library... |
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Jason Fagone
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017
Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront... |
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