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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

Judy Batalion - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists.One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing...
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Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies

Laura Thompson; OverDrive, Inc., - ‎St. Martin's Press
Pages: Hardcover‏‎384
Format: Hardcover‏

"New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied,...
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Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

Anne F. Hyde - ‎W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries.Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using...
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The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America

Willard Sterne Randall - ‎Dutton
Pages: Hardcover‏‎336
Format: Hardcover‏

In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America's most consequential document with a curious note, pledging "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were...
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Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted

Jeremy W. Peters - ‎Crown
Pages: Hardcover‏‎432
Format: Hardcover‏

Jeremy W. Peters's epic narrative chronicles the fracturing of the Republican Party. Insurgency is a fantasia-like story of a party establishment that believed it could control the dark energy it helped foment - right up until it suddenly couldn't. How, Peters asks, did conservative...
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