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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West

Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West....
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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

Lena S. Andrews - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies' victory.Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served...
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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

Dolly Parton - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive. In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first...
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In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship

Jon Meacham - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham offers a collection of inspiring words about how to be a good citizen, from Thomas Jefferson and others, and reminds us why our country's founding principles are still so important today. Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government...
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Smithsonian: Battles That Changed History

DK. - DK
Format: Hardcover

This illustrated guide to history's most famous battles explores military history from ancient battles to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and beyond.Featuring stunning illustrations and in-depth analysis, this military history book uses maps, paintings,...
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American Comics: A History

Jeremy Dauber - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination.Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes readers through comics'...
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

Blake J. Harris - It Books
Format: Hardcover

Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Warsa mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized...
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On Freedom Road: Bicycle Explorations and Reckonings on the Underground Railroad

David Goodrich - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A thoughtful and illuminating bicycle journey along the Underground Railroad by a climate scientist seeking to engage with American history. . The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight: a great church in Philadelphia; a humble old house backing up to the New Jersey Turnpike;...
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The World: A Family History of Humanity

Simon Sebag Montefiore - ?Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families *  From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanovs"Succession meets Game of Thrones." - Daily Mail Plus * "The author brings...
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

Look out for Carlo Rovelli's next book, Reality Is Not What It Seems.Instant New York Times Bestseller"One of the year's most entrancing books about science." - The Wall Street Journal"Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics."...
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