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The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity

Gregory D. Smithers · Yale University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing...
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Children of Nazis: The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others? Living with a Father's Monstrous Legacy

Tania Crasnianski · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

The Fascinating Story of Eight Children of Third Reich Leaders and their Journey from Descendants of Heroes to Descendants of Criminals In 1940, the German sons and daughters of great Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Goring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four,...
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

Eleanor Herman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Aja Raden, author of Stoned: "Herman has a delightful appreciation for all things beautiful and terrible. With her dishy signature style and a dazzling command of the facts, she brews up a heady mix of erudite history and delicious gossip."Hugely entertaining, a work of pop history...
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Never Surrender: Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940

John Kelly · Scribner, 2015.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill debated whether the British would fight Hitler.London in April, 1940, was a place of great fear and conflict. Everyone was on edge; civilization itself seemed imperiled....
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A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare

Diana Preston · Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover

In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed...
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Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets

Mookie Wilson · Berkley; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

WITH NEW UPDATES FOR THIS EDITION!They said it was the “Curse of the Bambino.” They said “the bad guys won.” Now, for the first time in trade paperback, one of baseball’s all-time good guys, New York Mets legend Mookie Wilson, tells his side of the story—from...
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Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope

Jonathan M. Bryant · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A dramatic work of historical detection illuminating one of the most significant -- and long forgotten -- Supreme Court cases in American history.In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States...
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

REBECCA TRAISTER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies - whom Anne Lamott called "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" - comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend...
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Founding Grammars: How Early America's War Over Words Shaped Today's Language

Rosemarie Ostler · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Who decided not to split infinitives? With whom should we take issue if in fact, we wish to boldly write what no grammarian hath writ before? In Founding Grammars, Rosemarie Ostler delves into the roots of our grammar obsession to answer these questions and many more. Standard grammar and accurate...
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Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said: Wit and Wisdom from America's Finest

Dan Caddy · Dey Street Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

The official tie-in book to the wildly popular Facebook page, featuring brand-new crazy, off-the-wall, outrageously funny, and downright "awesome" pearls of wisdom from real-life drill sergeants and instructors from all branches of the military.Sweat dries. Blood clots. Bones...
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Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home

Joe Klein · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

This is the true story of two decorated combat veterans linked by tragedy, who come home from the Middle East and find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country.In Charlie Mike, Joe Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-than-life war heroes...
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Million Dollar Turtles

Gary Bentley · Tekton Publishing
Format: Paperback

Few people have what it takes to become a millionaire. Even fewer are able to achieve that kind of success without a little help from the silver spoon. Gary Bentley is one of those rare individuals who overcame an upbringing in the foster-care system and found his way to a comfortable life...
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These Truths: A History of the United States

JILL LEPORE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 960
Format: Hardcover

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -- "these truths," Jefferson called them -- political equality,...
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Valley Forge

BOB DRURY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George...
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Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

Joe Domanick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning investigative reporter reveals the troubled history of the LAPD in a gripping story filled with hard-boiled, real-life characters that bring to life the ravages of the criminal justice system.Vividly drawn and character-driven, Blue is simultaneously a drama of cops, crime...
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