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Getting Life: An Innocent Man's 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace
Michael Morton · Simon & Schuster
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He spent twenty-five years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He lost his wife, his son, and his freedom. This is the story of how Michael Morton finally got justice—and a second chance at life. On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went... |
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The Jew Who Defeated Hitler: Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War
Peter Moreira · Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the slogan “The Arsenal of Democracy” to describe American might during the grim years of World War II. The man who financed that arsenal was his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr. This is the first book to focus on the wartime... |
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Michelle Knight · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 252
Format: Print book |
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerMichelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed... |
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The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved
Christopher Andersen · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers another dramatic installment in the lives of the Kennedys - including new details about JFK Jr., his relationship with his mother, his many girlfriends, and the night of his tragic death.Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen is a master... |
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A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
Janice Hadlow · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover |
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The Times Best Books of the Year * The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year The New Statesman Book of the Year selection by Lucy Hughes-Hallett BBC History Magazine Book of the Year selection by Helen Rappaport"A masterpiece . . . . [T]his heartbreaking narrative of family dysfunction... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 278
Format: Print book |
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee,... |
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Boston Mob: The Rise and Fall of the New England Mob and Its Most Notorious Killer
Marc Songini · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. Psychopathic strongman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most... |
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Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild
Novella Carpenter · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, LoveIm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book... The resulting journey is both brave and honest.A Library Journal Best Book of 2014Novella Carpenter picks up the phone one day to receive some disturbing news... |
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Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Lawrence Goldstone · Ballantine Books,
Pages: 428
Format: Print book |
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From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation. The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss,... |
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