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Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--and WWII Heroes

Tim Brady - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing true story of three fearless female resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground's most invaluable commodity. Recruited as teenagers, Hannie Schaft, and Dutch sisters...
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! . "It literally changed my outlook on the world ... incredible." - Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel ... The Barn describes not just the poison...
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Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Elle Reeve - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism - in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We're Polarized - reveals how the battle between the right and left is spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences. . Award-winning...
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A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

David S. Brown - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From popular historian and author of the "marvelous" (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law - the Kansas-Nebraska Act - unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing...
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The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers

Kate Kitagawa - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold stories."A book to make you love math." - Financial TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation...
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Fighting the Night: Iwo Jima, World War II, and a Flyer's Life

Paul Hendrickson - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father's wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices he and his fellow soldiers paid for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice. In the fall of 1944, Joe Paul Hendrickson,...
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Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic

Lindsay M. Chervinsky - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.. The United States of 1797 faced enormous challenges, provoked by enemies...
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Powered by Design: An Introduction to Problem Solving with Graphic Design

Renée Stevens
Format: Paperback

A truly up to date and thoughtful approach to an introduction to graphic design.The design industry has evolved rapidly over the past decade. Effective and successful designers no longer need to just "make things," they need to be curious thinkers who understand how to solve problems...
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The Trustees: Castle Hill

Anna Kasabian - Scala
Format: Paperback

This beautifully illustrated and practical guide provides the history of the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which draws many thousands of visitors each year. Set against the sapphire backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean, Castle Hill on the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is today...
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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750

Sir Noel Malcolm - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world.. Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of Florence, Venice and elsewhere,...
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