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Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
John Boessenecker · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 528
Format: Print book |
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"Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his proper place alongside such fabled lawmen as Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. Here is a grand adventure story, told with grace... |
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A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight
Maria Toorpakai · Twelve
Pages: 355
Format: Print book |
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"'Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood'--Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Maria Toorpakai hails... |
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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise
Lucinda Hawksley · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate,... |
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The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
Stephen Harding · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving... |
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The War Before Independence: 1775-1776
Derek W Beck · Sourcebooks
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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The United States was creeping ever closer to independence. The shot heard round the world still echoed in the ears of Parliament as impassioned revolutionaries took up arms for and against King and country. In this captivating blend of careful research and rich narrative, Derek W. Beck... |
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Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
Bob Brier · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 248
Format: Print book |
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In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 - one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left... |
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Pages: 512
Format: Print book |
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From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary... |
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The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
Robert P Watson · Da Capo Press
Pages: 288
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Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Later, during the war,... |
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Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader
Matthew Qvortrup · Overlook Press
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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The illuminating and in-depth biography of Angela Merkel, using exclusive new sources and research to tell how the daughter of a clergyman from East Germany rose to become one of the most powerful women in the worldThis is the fascinating tale of Angela Merkel's political ascent, in which... |
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Political Suicide: Missteps, Peccadilloes, Bad Calls, Backroom Hijinx, Sordid Pasts, Rotten Breaks, and Just Plain Dumb Mistakes in the Annals of American Politics
Erin McHugh · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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A collection of entertaining and cautionary tales of political missteps in American history, from the birth of the nation through the present day. Just in time for the presidential election of 2016 comes Political Suicide, a history of the best and most interesting missteps, peccadilloes,... |
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The Making of Asian America: A History
Erika Lee · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover |
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The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject.In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds... |
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Timothy Snyder · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 462
Format: Print book |
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A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first.... |
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When Women Win: EMILY's List and the Rise of Women in American Politics
Ellen Malcolm · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 358
Format: Print book |
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The dramatic inside story of the rise of women in elected office over the past quarter-century, from the pioneering founder of three-million-member EMILY's List - one of the most influential players in today's political landscape In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress,... |
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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
Jesse Holland · LP
Pages: 225
Format: Print book |
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THE INVISIBLES: Slavery Inside The White House and How It Helped Shape America is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White... |
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The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
Alexander Monro · Knopf, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper - the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago - wrapped itself around our world, humankind's most momentous ideas imprinted on its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court... |
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Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Sonia Purnell · Viking
Pages: 436
Format: Print book |
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"Sonia Purnell has at long last given Clementine Churchill the biography she deserves. Sensitive yet clear-eyed, Clementine tells the fascinating story of a complex woman struggling to maintain her own identity while serving as the conscience and principal adviser to one of the most... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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