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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · SmileyBooks
Format: Hardcover
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six hour documentary of the same name, airing on national, primetime public television in the fall of 2013. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African... |
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
Robert W Merry · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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"A deft character study of a president." - The New York Times Book Review "A valuable education on where America has been and, possibly, where it is going." - National Review "Magisterial." - The Christian Science Monitor In this great American story, acclaimed... |
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Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
AMANDA STERN · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic.The... |
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Part Swan, Part Goose: An Uncommon Memoir of Womanhood, Work, and Family
Swoosie Kurtz · Perigee Books
Format: Hardcover
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In a wise, warmhearted memoir that celebrates her extraordinary life and stellar career, Swoosie Kurtz shares just the right combination of personal misadventure and showbiz lore, candidly reflecting on the right choices that empowered her, the wrong choices that enlightened her, and the intimate... |
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The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader
Jason Redman · William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 382
Format: Paperback
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Decorated US navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman was critically wounded in 2007 while leading a mission against a key al-Qaida commander, when his mobility and assault forces team was ambushed and he was struck by machine-gun fire at point-blank range. During the intense recovery that followed,... |
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The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
Rebecca Musser · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints'... |
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,... |
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Amish Confidential
Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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""Lebanon" Levi Stoltzfus, star of the #1 top-rated Discovery Channel reality show Amish Mafia, delivers a sizzling tell-all about Amish life today. From the forbidden joyrides to the senseless shunnings to the colorful family feuds, he shares his frank insider's view... |
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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Arnold Schwarzenegger · Simon & Schuster
Format: Kindle Edition
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THE GREATEST IMMIGRANT SUCCESS STORY OF OUR TIME His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages.He was born in a year of famine, in a small Austrian town, the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding... |
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Patton: The Pursuit of Destiny
Agostino Von Hassell · Thomas Nelson; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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He was a harsh taskmaster who comforted dying soldiers and quietly commended their valor. A crusty, often foulmouthed commander who wrote tender letters home to the love of his life. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. comes to life in these pages as one of the most colorful, enigmatic, and unfairly... |
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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
Matt McCarthy · Broadway Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book
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In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor - the sort of mythical, unflappable physician who could reach unreachable patients. But when a new admission to the critical care unit almost died his first night on call, he found himself scrambling. Visions of mastery... |
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John Adams: Revolutionary Writings, 1755-1775
John Adams · Library of America; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Propelled by the power of his pen and the clarity of his judgment an ambitious young provincial lawyer named John Adams became a major figure in the American Revolution This first of two volumes gathering his essential writings to includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus... |
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