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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World
Joann Fletcher - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped... |
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The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
John Buchanan - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
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In The Road to Guilford Courthouse, one of the most acclaimed military histories of the Revolutionary War ever written, John Buchanan explored the first half of the critical Southern Campaign and introduced readers to its brilliant architect, Major General Nathanael Greene. In this long-awaited... |
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Saga of Chief Joseph, Bison Classic Edition
Helen Addison Howard - Bison Books
Format: Paperback
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In Saga of Chief Joseph, Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In times of war and peace, Chief Joseph exhibited gifts of the first rank as a leader for peace and tribal liberty. Following his people's internment... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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Classic baseball stories
Jeff Silverman - Lyons Press
Format: eBook : Document : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply for the love of the game. Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about America's favorite pastime.... |
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The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State
Shane Harris - Penguin Press HC, The; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Using exclusive access to key insiders, Shane Harris charts the rise of America's surveillance state over the past twenty-five years and highlights a dangerous paradox: Our government's strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on the rest of us. Our surveillance... |
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Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
David Kipen - Modern Library
Format: Hardcover
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A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from the likes of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, Cesar Chavez, Joan Rivers, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some just passing through. The City... |
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Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide 2020
Terry Kovel - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Paperback
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The most trusted and complete antiques & collectibles price guide available! The Kovels'2020 edition is packed with 16,000 listings and 2,500 full-color photographs featuring collectibles in furniture, jewelry, toys, glass, and more. The Kovels are the most trusted... |
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The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
Jo Marchant - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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An historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant's book can begin to heal it. For at least 20,000 years, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship... |
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The Lost Pianos of Siberia
Sophy Roberts - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth -- where music reveals the deep humanity and the rich history of SiberiaSiberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell.... |
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The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
Steve Olson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy, and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb.It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom,... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets... |
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Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
Eric Lichtblau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines.
Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision... |
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew Kneale - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." - The Sunday Times (London) Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City - from the early... |
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By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz
Max Eisen - Hanover Square Press
Format: Paperback
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An award-winning, internationally bestselling Holocaust memoir in the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in AuschwitzIn the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Tibor "Max" Eisen and his family from their home, brought them to a brickyard... |
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
A. N. Wilson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth.For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height... |
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Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
Lee Sandlin - Pantheon; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning journalist Lee Sandlin comes a riveting look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America’s historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the nineteenth century. Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing... |
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I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir
Val Kilmer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Legendary actor Val Kilmer shares the stories behind his most beloved roles, reminisces about his star-studded career and love life, and reveals the truth behind his recent health struggles in a remarkably candid autobiography.Val Kilmer has played so many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade... |
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A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Woolverton - Eerdmans
Format: Hardcover
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, when asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, responded simply, "I am a Christian and a Democrat." This is the story of how the first informed the second - how his upbringing in the Episcopal Church and matriculation at the Groton... |
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Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers
Doug J. Swanson - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A twenty-first century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, oppression, and corruptionThe Texas Rangers came to life in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico. Nearly 200 years later, the Rangers... |
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Pirates of the Americas
David F. Marley - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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This book offers true stories of bloodthirsty pirates and the courageous men trying to stop them during the Western Hemisphere's golden age of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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100 Years of Fashion Illustration mini
Cally Blackman - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A visual feast of 400 dazzling images, this is a comprehensive survey of the genre over the last century. The book also offers an overview of the development of fashion, as seen through the eyes of the greatest illustrators of the day.Early in the century, fashion illustration reflected... |
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Mary Elise Sarotte - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall - infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe - seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates... |
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Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
Noam Chomsky - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. With a New Afterword. The worlds leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation,... |
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War -- a conflict... |
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The Hero
Lee Child - TLS Books
Format: Hardcover
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WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD ... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin Slaughter'I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page' The TimesIn his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling... |
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The Jane Austen Marriage Manual
Helen Amy - Amberley Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A strict code of conduct governed courtship and marriage in Regency England during the period in which Jane Austen's novels were set, broadly 1796 to 1816. At a time when womens' only real ambition appeared to be achieving a successful match, young women of the gentry class had to learn... |
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The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
John C. McManus - NAL; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought... |
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The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
Lisa Moses Leff - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski gathered up tens of thousands of documents from Nazi buildings in Berlin, and later, public archives and private synagogues in France, and moved them all, illicitly, to New York. In The Archive Thief, Lisa Moses Leff reconstructs... |
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The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe
James M. Beidler - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback
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Explore Your German Ancestry!Follow your family tree back to its roots in Bavaria, Baden, Prussia, Hesse, Saxony, Wurttemburg and beyond. This in-depth genealogy guide will walk you step by step through the exciting journey of researching your German heritage, whether your ancestors came... |
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Fire, Pestilence, and Death: St. Louis, 1849
Christopher Alan Gordon - Missouri History Museum Press
Format: Paperback
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In 1849, St. Louis was little more than a frontier town, swelling under the pressure of rapid population growth, creaking under the strain of poor infrastructure, and often trapped within the confines of ignorance and prejudice. The cholera epidemic and Great Fire of 1849 were both a consequence... |
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The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
Ingrid Rowland - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of The Swerve and How to Live, this vivid biography reveals how a Renaissance scholar reshaped the visual world.Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents -- a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar -- but he is best known for Lives of the Artists,... |
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And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote
Neuman, Johanna - BLACKWELL PUBL
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A comprehensive history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, from 1776 to 1965 Most suffrage histories begin in 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton first publicly demanded the right to vote at the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. And they end in 1920,... |
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The Civil War: A Visual History
DK Publishing - DK; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating and complete guide to the Civil War, this book includes compelling information on the War between the States, Abraham Lincoln, slavery in America, the Confederacy and the Union. Every effort has been made to make Civil War reliable and complete - the book was created with... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters
Luke Timothy Johnson - Doubleday Religion
Format: Hardcover
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This thoughtful, fully accessible exploration of the creed, the list of beliefs central to the Christian faith, delves into its origins and illuminates the contemporary significance of why it still matters.During services in Christian communities, the members of the congregation stand together... |
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
REBECCA TRAISTER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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... |
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God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
Louis S. Warren - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they collapsed into trances. In an attempt to suppress this new faith, the US Army killed over two hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek. Louis Warren's God's Red Son offers a startling... |
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Grant
Ron Chernow - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman,... |
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
Simon Ings - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book
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Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived... |
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Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
Jax Miller - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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"There is, in the best of us, a search for the truth, to serve the living and dead alike...Jax Miller is one of those people and Hell in the Heartland is one of those books." - Robert Graysmith, New York Times bestselling author of ZodiacS-Town meets I'll Be Gone in the Dark... |
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The Liberators: America's Witnesses to the Holocaust
Michael Hirsh - Bantam; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Rich with powerful never-before-published details from the author's interviews with more than 150 U.S. soldiers who liberated the Nazi... |
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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
Dan Albert - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive.Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These technological marvels promise cleaner air, smoother traffic, and tens of thousands of lives saved. But even if robots turn into responsible drivers, are we ready... |
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The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865
Mark Peterson - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle... |
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known... |
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Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
Hedi Fried - Scribe US
Format: Hardcover
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"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer." Hdi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where she and her sister were forced into hard... |
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The Oral History Manual
Barbara W Sommer - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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The Oral History Manual is designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life... |
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This Used to Be St. Louis
Eileen Nini Harris - Reedy Press, LLC
Format: Paperback
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St. Louis's history is layered. Each layer, whether the French pioneers establishing St. Louis as a river trading post, or Swiss immigrants starting dairy farms and dairies, or immigrants from Europe putting on the uniforms of the American doughboy, has left an imprint on the city.... |
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff - Harper
Format: Book
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In the days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, then-Boston Globe journalist Mitchell Zuckoff led a team that reported and wrote the lead news stories and a series of pieces about 9/11 victims and their families. It was the beginning of an obsession with that momentous day and a commitment... |
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Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Jim Frederick - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment - a unit known as "the Black Heart Brigade." Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X Kendi - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IN RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTSFINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTIONTHE MOST AMBITIOUS BOOK OF 2016 - The Washington PostA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2016A WASHINGTON... |
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Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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An Italian immigrant who spoke little English and struggled to scrape together a living on her primitive family farm outside Chicago, Sabella Nitti was arrested in 1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two months, she was found guilty and became the first woman ever sentenced... |
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus... |
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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Renaissance: A History of the Central West End
Candace O'Connor - Reedy Press, LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Just as stately trees in Forest Park were coming down to make way for the 1904 Worlds Fair, elegant homes designed by the citys best architects and occupied by its elite were springing up on surrounding streets, as a vast building boom began. And that was the start of the St. Louis neighborhood... |
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Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
Christina Snyder - Harvard University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyders pathbreaking book takes a familiar setting... |
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Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
JEREMY BROWN - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic,... |
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SECRET ROUTE 66 : a guide to the weird, wonderful, and obscure
JIM ROSS - REEDY PR
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Take a tour of Route 66 unlike any other, discovering the secrets, memorable characters, and little known stories behind many of the route's enduring icons. Find the answer to the question, ''Who was Ella Jones?'' and pay a visit to a secluded cemetery that few road warriors even know exists.... |
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The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
Emma Marriott - Michael O'Mara
Format: Paperback
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History is a rich, varied, and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book . . . until now. The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks pulls it all together, from the world's earliest civilizations in 3500 BC to the founding of the United Nations in 1945,... |
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Elaine Tyler May - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracyFor the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,... |
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The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War
Yochi Dreazen - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons - one to suicide and one in combat - and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces' suicide epidemic.Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons,... |
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Board Games in 100 Moves
Ian Livingstone - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Surprising stories behind the games you know and love to play.Journey through 8,000 years of history, from Ancient Egyptian Senet and Indian Snakes and Ladders, right up to role-play, fantasy and hybrid games of the present day.More than 100 games are explored chronologically, from the most... |
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Presidents of War
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation... |
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Abandoned Sacred Places
Lawrence Joffe - Amber Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Roman temples to Buddhist shrines in the Chinese desert, these hallowed halls have been abandoned to nature. More than 200 outstanding images show what happens to sacred places when humanity retreats. What happens when the congregation moves away from its place of worship? Or when... |
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In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine
Rachel Lance - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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How a determined scientist cracked the case of the first successful - and disastrous - submarine attack On the night of February 17, 1864, the tiny Confederate submarine HL Hunley made its way toward the USS Housatonic just outside Charleston harbor. Within a matter of hours,... |
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Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
Mcrae. - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial... |
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Our Daily Bread: German Village Life, 1500-1850
Teva J Scheer - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Have you ever wondered what life was like for your German ancestors? Have you ever tried to find a book on everyday village life? If so, you've probably already figured out that there aren't any books out there on the topic! But now, you can learn all about German village life in a book... |
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Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy
Gregory Salsbury - FT Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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"A superb introduction to the necessary financial planning no American over 40 can afford to ignore." Publishers Weekly "It's time for many individual investors to make some hard choices. Baby Boomers are learning to deal with the fact that they really can't... |
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Commonwealth of Compromise: Civil War Commemoration in Missouri
Amy Laurel Fluker - University of Missouri
Format: Hardcover
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In this important new contribution to the historical literature, Amy Fluker offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate commemoration. She provides the most complete... |
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A Nation in Pain: Healing our Biggest Health Problem
Judy Foreman - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Out of 238 million American adults, 100 million live in chronic pain. And yet the press has paid more attention to the abuses of pain medications than the astoundingly widespread condition they are intended to treat. Ethically, the failure to manage pain better is tantamount to torture.... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, Alligator Candy is "a raw story about courage, survival, and most certainly about love" (Tampa Bay Times) .David Kushner grew up in the suburbs of Florida in the early... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against... |
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The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations
Lee Smith - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Reforming the Middle East is not America's fight, argues Lee Smith, nor is it a fight we can win. Soon after the World Trade Center towers fell, leaving ashes floating over journalist Lee Smith's Brooklyn neighborhood, he left for Cairo to find out "why the Arabs hate us."... |
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
Kevin M. Kruse - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent times." -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United StatesWhen -- and how -- did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer... |
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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Bart Van Es - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood... |
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Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
Richard Wightman Fox - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Even two hundred years after Abraham Lincolns death, we, like Walt Whitman, love the President personally.In a stunning feat of scholarship, insight, and engaging prose, Lincolns Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright ugly of aspect came to mean so much to us.The very... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Time-Life Books. - Time Life Education
Format: Hardcover
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The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History
Marc Stein - NYU Press
Format: Paperback
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On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history - depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Southwest USA and National Parks
DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksDiscover Southwest USA with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to the region before you've even packed your case - drive through the stunning landscapes, taking in the Grand... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's a hero... |
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
T J English - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot;... |
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Dan Barry - Harper
Format: Print book
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With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice... |
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Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth
Kevin M. Levin - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully... |
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
Marie Arana - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Winner, American Library Association BOOKLIST s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary... |
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Scottish Queens, 10341714
Rosalind K. Marshall - Birlinn
Format: Paperback
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The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books.One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady MacBeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted... |
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Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household
ADRIAN TINNISWOOD - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James... |
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C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
Jeff Sharlet - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meetJeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known simply by its Washington, DC address. The house has lately been the scene of notorious political scandal, but more crucially... |
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Edward Dolnick - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold... |
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Indian Nations of North America
National Geographic - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Walk with the indigenous people who settled North America —and with their descendants, whose more than 500 tribes range from the Arctic Circle across the Great Plains and to the Eastern Seaboard. Lakota, Cherokee, Navajo, Haida: these groups and many others are profiled in engaging... |
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St. Louis Brews: The History of Brewing in the Gateway City, 3rd Edition
Henry Herbst - Reedy Press, LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Few cities can tell the story of beer in America like St. Louis can. In this third edition of St. Louis Brews: The History of Brewing in the Gateway City, St. Louis s brewing history is brought to life. Accompanied by hundreds of historical images and canvassing more than 200 years of brewing... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with... |
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The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record
Jonathan Scott - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story behind the mission, music, and message of NASA's Voyager Golden Record--humanity's message to the stars.In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of NASA's Voyager probe. They were responsible... |
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Rust: The Longest War
Jonathan Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ** A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year It has been called "the great destroyer" and "the evil." The Pentagon refers to it as "the pervasive menace." It destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships,... |
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The Baltic: A History
Michael North - Harvard University Press; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this overview of the Baltic region from the Vikings to the European Union, Michael North presents the sea and the lands that surround it as a Nordic Mediterranean, a maritime zone of shared influence, with its own distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering... |
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What's with St. Louis?
Valerie Battle Kienzle - Reedy Press, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Why do I feel like I'm in an outdoor sauna during the summer? Are all the stop signs just a suggestion, because no one seems to obey them? And what's with the word ''hoosier'' when we're two states away from Indiana? These and other nagging questions about St. Louis... |
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The Prince Who Would Be King
Sarah Fraser - William Collins
Format: Hardcover
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Henry Stuart's life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years' War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous.Henry Stuart, Prince... |
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction.Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most... |
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Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We're In
Robert Spencer - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Overlooked by our media, purposely obscured by our own government, and unnoticed by the vast majority of Americans, the turmoil of the Islamic world's "Arab Spring" has become an "Arab Winter," bringing new threats of terror to America. New York Times bestselling... |
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The Battle of Peach Tree Creek: Hood's First Effort to Save Atlanta
Earl J Hess - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
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On July 20, 1864, the Civil War struggle for Atlanta reached a pivotal moment. As William T. Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city, the defending Confederate Army of Tennessee replaced its commanding general, removing Joseph E. Johnston and elevating John Bell Hood. This decision... |
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Korean Dream: A Vision For a Unified Korea
Hyun Jin Preston Moon - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Korean Dream: A Vision for a Unified Korea is a powerful call to action for Koreans and supporters everywhere to achieve a new nation, rooted in a common past. In Korean Dream, Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon presents an innovative way forward for the Korean Peninsula that at its heart is Korean... |
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