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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906

DAVID CANNADINE · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians.To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science,...
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Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump

Miguel A De La Torre · Orbis Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

"May this book serve as a nurturing, connecting, and sustaining resource as we discuss the many ways faith, resistance, and healing must take shape in the Trump era....We need to live and act in solidarity -- together." From the Foreword by Jim WallisFor many people of faith,...
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Paris Fashion: A Cultural History

Valerie Steele · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover

This beautifully illustrated new edition of Paris Fashion examines the history and culture of style in the fashion capital from the 14th century through to the present day.Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture,...
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The Queen: The Life and Times of Elizabeth II

Catherine Book Sales Chartwell · Chartwell Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for 64 years, longer than any British monarch in history. During that time the Queen has endured the ups and downs that long life will bring. She was a beacon of hope during and after the Second World War in difficult times when the world...
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The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

Daniel Stone · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plateIn the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment....
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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves

MATTHEW SWEET · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to the heart of the Washington establishmentStockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam....
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Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City

SCOTT A HUESING · Regnery History
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"In war, destruction is everywhere. It eats everything around you. Sometimes it eats at you." - Major Scott Huesing, Echo Company CommanderFrom the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, two-hundred-fifty Marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment...
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Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill

JRandy Taraborrelli · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th Century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss, and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill."Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?" Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters...
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Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

Andrew Morton · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance."...
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The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

BART EHRMAN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authority on early Christianity, the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of twenty or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than four hundred years.Christianity didn't have to become the dominant religion...
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