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Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

Bennett Parten - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of Sherman's March to the Sea - the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy - told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman's march into the biggest...
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The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West

Amy Gamerman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.. Most locals in Big Timber, Montana learn to live...
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Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson

Paul French - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor-her one year in China.Before she was the Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield was Mrs. Wallis Spencer, wife of Earl "Win"...
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