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Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession

Laurence Leamer - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of Capote's Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story.. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated - not just on the dark, twisty...
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

David McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals...
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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II

Alex Kershaw - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover

The nationalbestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II - all Medal of Honor recipients - from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same...
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Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Nathaniel Philbrick - Viking
Format: Print book

"Valiant Ambition may be one of the greatest what-if books of the age - a volume that turns one of America's best-known narratives on its head." - Boston Globe"Clear and insightful, it consolidates his reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative...
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The Loneliest Americans

Jay Caspian Kang - Crown
Format: Hardcover

In 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including the lawmakers who passed the bill, expected it to transform the country's demographics. But over the next four decades, millions arrived, including Jay Caspian...
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The Odyssey of Echo Company: The Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle of Echo Company to Survive the Vietnam War

Doug Stanton - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers, the harrowing, redemptive, and utterly unforgettable account of an American army reconnaissance platoon's fight for survival during the Vietnam...
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation

John Sedgwick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud...
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics

Ronald Brownstein - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein - "one of America's best political journalists (The Economist) - tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles' creative peak, a glittering moment when...
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

Doug Stanton - ?Scribner; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer in theaters everywhere! "A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times...
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

Jelani Cobb - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America - including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more - with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex...
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