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Citizen: My Life After the White House

Bill Clinton · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all.. On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics - eight of them as president of the United States - Bill Clinton was suddenly...
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The Afterlife is Letting Go

Brandon Shimoda · City Lights Publishers
Format: Paperback

"The Afterlife Is Letting Go is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award-winning The Grave on the Wall." - Matt Seidel, Publishers Weekly's "Big Indie Books of Fall 2024""Both...
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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter

Clare Mulley · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo.. During World War II, Elzbieta Zawacka - the WWII female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo - was the only woman to reach London as an emissary of the Polish Home Army...
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Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe

Matthew Gabriele · Harper
Format: Hardcover

The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones - the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe By the early ninth...
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The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

"Elegantly written and magisterially researched" (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia) , the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world's foremost expert. When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial...
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Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret (American War Heroes)

Stephen L. Moore · Dutton Caliber
Format: Paperback

As a child, Robert Howard was taught by his Granny Callie to always face his threats head-on. Some thirty years later, he emerged from the Vietnam War as America's most decorated Green Beret.. For the first time, Robert Howard's story is being told in full. Respected military historian...
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson · Crown
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War - a simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln...
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Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery

Ken McGoogan · Douglas & McIntyre
Format: Hardcover

Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures...
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The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy

Sean Kingsley · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The incredible story of the "Robin Hood of the Seas," who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret.. Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished into thin air - and into...
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