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The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

DEBORAH CADBURY - ‎PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary true story of a courageous school principal, Anna Essinger, who saw the dangers of Nazi Germany and took drastic steps to save those in harm's wayBy 1931, Anna Essinger had read Mein Kampf and knew that Hitler's world view was violent, utterly destructive, and that...
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Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer

KATHY KLEIMAN - ‎Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Code Girls and Hidden Figures, PROVING GROUND is the untold, World War II-era story of the six American women who programmed the world's first modern computer.After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics...
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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

DAVID ROBERTS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing."By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west...
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The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific

Brandon Presser - ‎PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the worldIn 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing...
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What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party

Michael Kazin - ‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA leading historian tells the story of the United States' most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for "moral capitalism," from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden.One of Kirkus Reviews'...
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Jody Rosen - ‎Crown
Format: Hardcover

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world"The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride - across the centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid first-person reporting."...
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The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

Elizabeth Letts - ‎Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback‏

In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor's...
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Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim - ‎Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable...
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The Trench

Richard Van Emden - ‎BANTAM PRESS; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

This companion book to a BBC series is based on extensive interviews with veterans and vividly reconstructs the reality of war: what it felt like to see the front line, how the trenches themselves were constructed, how soldiers passed their leisure hours, where they slept, and what they...
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Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today

Craig McNamara - ‎Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022"Offering a complex, introspective look at how his relationship with his father turned into "a mixture of love and rage," the author sheds light on an entire generation's disillusionment with their forebears and reaches...
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