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Eyes on Target: Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs

Scott McEwen · Center Street
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi...
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Audition

Oprah Jackson · Vintage
Format: Kindle Edition

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The American President: A Complete History

Kathryn Moore · Fall River; Rev Upd edition

Remarkable and comprehensive, this single-volume reference offers a fascinating glimpse into the American presidency and its continuing evolution. It's organized chronologically and contains detailed personal and political profiles of each president, official portraits, timelines for every...
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Winter brothers : a season at the edge of America

Ivan Doig · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 246
Format: eBook

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My Journey with Maya

Tavis Smiley , · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courageWhen Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often,...
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Naming Jack the Ripper

Russell Edwards · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

After 125 years of theorizing and speculation regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper, Russell Edwards is in the unique position of owning the first physical evidence relating to the crimes to have emerged since 1888. This evidence is from one of the crime scenes, and has now been rigorously...
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Quilting with a Modern Slant: People, Patterns, and Techniques Inspiring the Modern Quilt Community

Rachel May · Storey Publishing, LLC

Modern quilting allows artists the freedom to play with traditions and take liberties with fabrics, patterns, colors, stitching, and the ways in which they all connect. In Quilting with a Modern Slant, Rachel May introduces you to more than 70 modern quilters who have developed their own styles,...
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Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America

Matt Apuzzo · Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

How safe are we? What do we sacrifice to feel safe? And who pays the ultimate price? Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists examine one of the most sensitive post-9/11 national security investigations - a breathtaking race to prevent an al-Qaeda bomber from launching Osama bin Laden's...
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Jim Henson : the biography

Brian Jay Jones · Ballantine Books
Format: eBook

"For the first time ever--a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only...
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Blood On The Water

Anne Perry · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author On the teeming Thames waterfront one summer afternoon, William Monk witnesses the horrifying explosion of the Princess Mary, sending nearly two hundred merrymakers to their deaths. This was no accident, and as commander of the River Police, Monk should...
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