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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery, and Arsenic
Kate Colquhoun · The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the summer of young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arse-nic poisoning of her much older husband Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick The xCMaybrick MysteryxD had all the makings of a sensation a pretty flirtatious young girl resentful gossiping servants... |
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The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936
Ivan Chistyakov · Pegasus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A rare first-person testimony of the hardships of a Soviet labor camp -- long suppressed -- that will become a cornerstone of understanding the Soviet Union. Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow,... |
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The Vikings: Third Edition
Else Roesdahl · Penguin Books
Pages: 350
Format: Paperback
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Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword "The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part... |
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
ELIZABETH NORTON · Pegasus Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era? The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also... |
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The Long Road Home
Martha Raddatz · Berkley
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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NOW A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MINISERIES EVENT
ABC News' Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz shares remarkable tales of heroism, hope, and heartbreak in her account of "Black Sunday" - a battle during one of the deadliest periods of the Iraq war.
The First... |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of 2014 Kate Tuttles pickNPR, Staff Pick The Dark Side, Science and Society Eye Opening Reads CategoriesAmazon, Best Books of 2014 Nonfiction Imagine that a terrorist... |
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1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution
ROBERT C COTTRELL · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
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The year 1968 retains its mythic hold on the imagination in America and around the world. Like the revolutionary years 1789, 1848, 1871, 1917, and 1989, it is recalled most of all as a year when revolution beckoned or threatened. On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year, cultural... |
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The New Loyalist Index, Volume I
Paul J Bunnell · Heritage Books
Pages: 3
Format: Paperback
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A master index identifying over 5, 000 Loyalists. This new index covers several dozen sources including both published works and American and Canadian archives. Each entry provides, where available, the name, regiment, and rank of the subject, along with b
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,... |
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The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
KEITH LOWE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world.The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror... |
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Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings: Library of America #277
Virgil Thomson · Library Of America
Pages: 1100
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America's greatest composer-critic. Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic... |
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In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement
John Hylan Heminway · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of one woman's search for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a life that sparked a heroic career, but also hid a secret past.
Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned... |
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