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Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption

Tim Downs · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

Back Cover:"The account of Dr. Chung and his family will inspire you to believe in second chances and miracles and the God who gives them both."-Max Lucado, New York Times best-selling authorMy name is Vinh Chung.This is a story that spans two continents, ten decades, and eleven...
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Chasing the Amish Dream: My Life as a Young Amish Bachelor

Loren Beachy · Herald Press
Format: Print book

Life in author Loren Beachy's Amish community brims with old-fashioned box socials, smart-alecky students, and pranks involving pink duct tape and black pepper. Meet the young women who manage to be late for church twice in one day and the man who plans to fight drowsiness by jogging beside...
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Packing Up: Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse

Brigid Keenan · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Her bestselling account of life as a "trailing spouse," Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts...
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Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice

Timothy W. Ryback · Knopf; 1st Ed. edition
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of Josef Hartinger, the German prosecutor who risked everything to bring to justice the first killers of the Holocaust and whose efforts would play a key role in the Nuremberg tribunal. Before Germany was engulfed by Nazi dictatorship, it was a constitutional republic....
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ZeroZeroZero

Roberto Saviano
Format: Book

From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy In many countries, "000" flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find,...
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Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks

Ronin Ro · Griffin
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

With a brand-new introduction and chapter that cover the last five years of Prince's life and work and his untimely death in April 2016.In his three decades of recording, Prince had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. He is the only artist since the Beatles to have a number-one...
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Normally, This Would be Cause for Concern: Tales of Calamity and Unrelenting Awkwardness

Danielle Fishel · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

A warm and witty memoir by Danielle Fishel, the beloved star of the 90s sitcom Boy Meets World and the eagerly anticipated spin-off, Girl Meets World. Best known for playing Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World, Danielle Fishel was many a tweens first crush and the quintessential girl-next-door...
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Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom

Jack Weatherford · Viking
Pages: 407
Format: Print book

A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their...
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Man of Destiny: FDR and the Making of the American Century

Alonzo Hamby · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama. Following in the footsteps of his Republican cousin President Theodore Roosevelt, FDR devoted himself to politics as a Democrat and a true...
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Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman

Harlow Giles Unger · Da Capo Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, author Harlow Giles Unger tells how a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open the doors of Congress during the nation's formative years and prevented dissolution of the infant American republic.The only freshman congressman...
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground

Emily Parker · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities unsuccessfully try to silence an online critic by sowing seeds of distrust in her marriage. And in Russia, a lone blogger rises to become one of the most prominent opposition...
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The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

Dee Williams · Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Dee Williams's life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people...
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The Big Heist: The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder

ANTHONY M DESTEFANO · Citadel
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Terrific DeStefano. He finally gives us a fitting end to the murderous and fabled story of the 1978 Lufthansa heist." - Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas. The story that couldn't be told - until now. One of the biggest...
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Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War

Kayla Williams · W.W. Norton & Co
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives. Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave,...
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On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move...
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