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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Jeanne Theoharis - Beacon Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

2014 NAACP Image Award Winner Outstanding Literary Work Biography Auto Biography2013Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women HistoriansChoice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging...
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National Geographic's Guide to America's Historic Places

Michael Lewis - Natl Geographic Society
Format: Paperback

Combining interesting facts with invaluable planning details on more than 2,500 of the best historic sites in the 50 states, this comprehensive travel guide offers addresses, phone numbers, and other information on historical sites; full-color maps; historical overview of each region; 250 full-color...
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier

Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Books
Format: May 3

When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her fathers response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity...
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The dead duke, his secret wife, and the missing corpse : an extraordinary Edwardian case of deception and intrigue

Piu Marie Eatwell - Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Format: Print book

"One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his horsedrawn carriage...
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Pendleton County,

Rick Toothman - Heritage Books Inc.
Format: Book

This is the second collection of diverse genealogical records for Pendleton County compiled by Rick Toothman. Most appraisals contain inventories of personal property including household items, utensils, slaves and more books in particular have been iden,
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Lucky 666 : the impossible mission

Bob Drury - Simon & Schuster

"From the authors of the New York Times bestselling The Heart of Everything That Is and Halsey's Typhoon comes the dramatic, untold story of a daredevil bomber pilot and his misfit crew who fly their lone B-17 into the teeth of the Japanese Empire in 1943, engage in the longest...
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Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back

Ann Vileisis - Island Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Ask children where food comes from, and they’ll probably answer: “the supermarket.” Ask most adults, and their replies may not be much different. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become...
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Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas

Gary Geddes - Sterling
Format: Hardcover

From war-torn Afghanistan, through the snow-capped Himalayas and across the burning sands of the Taklamakan desert, to a rapidly modernizing China and on to the Central American jungles: it is an impossible journey, but one that Gary Geddes eagerly undertook in order to retrace the voyage...
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Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England

Catherine Bailey - Penguin Books
Format: Book

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England’s wealthiest familiesFans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England’s...
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42

William Dalrymple - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From William Dalrympleaward-winning historian, journalist and travel writera masterly retelling of what was perhaps the Wests greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With access...
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Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer

Stephen Dando-Collins - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book

When he died in 1877, Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt dynasty, was wealthier than the U.S. Treasury. But he had nearly lost his fortune in 1856, when William Walker, a young Nashville genius, set out to conquer Central America and, in the process, take away Vanderbilt's...
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The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

Ira Berlin - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation...
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Baltimore County, Maryland, Deed Records, Vol. 1: 1659-1737

John Davis - Heritage Books
Format: Paperback

The deed records abstracted here include lands that lie within present-day Baltimore City, Cecil and Harford Counties, and parts of Carroll, Anne Arundel, Howard and Kent Counties. Entries are more or less chronological, variations being due to the fact that transactions were often recorded...
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Summer at Tiffany

Marjorie Hart - William Morrow Paperbacks; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming...
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National Geographic Concise History of Science and Invention: An Illustrated Time Line

National Geographic - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

From the ancient conquest of fire and the first turn of a wheel to the latest in scientific leaps toward the stars, this easy-access history offers a panoramic perspective on humankind’s restless quest for the laws, theories, and tools by which we can grasp and master our universe.This...
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The Good Soldiers

David Finkel - Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Format: Hardcover

It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,"...
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Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Marie Jalowicz Simon - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin. In 1941, Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Berliner, made an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews were being rounded up for deportation, forced...
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The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea

Walter R. Borneman - Little Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power. Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William...
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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street

William D. Cohan - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

On March 5, 2008, at 1015 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns Co., the nations fifth-largest investment bank In my book, they are insolvent.This seemed a bold and risky statement. Bear...
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family

Gail Lumet Buckley - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house...
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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

Irene Spencer - Center Street; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Irene Spencer did as she felt Godcommanded in marrying herbrother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becominghis second wife. When thegovernment raided the fundamentalist, polygamousMormon village of Short Creek, Arizona,Irene and her family fled toVerlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.They lived...
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American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home 1945-2000

Joshua Freeman - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A compelling look at the movements and developments that propelled America to world dominanceIn this landmark work, acclaimed historian Joshua Freeman has created an epic portrait of a nation both galvanized by change and driven by conflict. Beginning in 1945, the economic juggernaut awakened...
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D-Day: The Greatest Invasion - A People's History

Dan Van der Vat

It was the greatest invasion of all time. Early on the morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Normandy-not only streaming from the sea but also sweeping in from the air-and launched a massive assault on Nazi-occupied France. In sixteen unfor
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Early New Brunswick

R W Hale - Heritage Books
Format: Paperback

This important contribution to the history and genealogy of the Maritime Provinces contains detailed abstracts of all the extant probate records of New Brunswick from the time it was set off from Nova Scotia as a separate province until 1835. The abstracts were made from the probate files...
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Missouri Marriages Before 1840

Susan Ormesher - Clearfield
Format: Paperback

This amazing compilation contains the records of 16,000 marriages from fifty-one Missouri counties formed before 1840. The majority of the marriage records in this work were copied from the original marriage books on file in various county courthouses. Others were copied from previously...
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Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City

Stephane Kirkland - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book

Stephane Kirkland gives an engrossing account of Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and one of the greatest transformations of a major city in modern historyTraditionally known as a dirty, congested, and dangerous city, 19th Century Paris, France was transformed in an extraordinary period...
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1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History

Jay Winik - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Jay Winik brings to life in gripping detail the year 1944, which determined the outcome of World War II and put more pressure than any other on an ailing yet determined President Roosevelt.It was not inevitable that World War II would end as it did, or that...
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Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville

Witold Rybczynski - Scribner
Format: Print book

When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met and talked to everyone involved in the building of this residential subdivision...
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I Wish I'd Been There, Book Two: European History

Byron Hollinshead - Doubleday
Format: Print book

The Authors and Essays in I Wish I'd Been There, Book TwoJosiah Ober At the Deathbed of Alexander the GreatTom Holland Hannibal Crosses the Alps Theodore K. Rabb Christmas Day in the Year 800John Julius Norwich Venice, July 24, 1177Katherine Fischer Drew Magna Carta and the King's...
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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story

Elliott West - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope,...
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Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero

Douglas Perry - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a citys soulAs leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables daring raids were...
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It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies

Bill Fawcett - Harper
Format: Paperback

A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disastersEvery phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol - absolutely absurd creations that should have never made it off the drawing...
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The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee - Scribner
Format: Paperback

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account...
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Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

Alexander Watson - Basic Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

For Germany and Austria-Hungary the First World War started with high hopes for a rapid, decisive outcome. Convinced that right was on their side and fearful of the enemies that encircled them, they threw themselves resolutely into battle. Yet, despite the initial halting of a brutal Russian...
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Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers

Simon Winchester - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.A colorful and provocative exploration of the modern Pacific Ocean--what it has been,...
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Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness

Neil Swidey - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job - with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations,...
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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier

Lea VanderVelde - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford. Despite the cases signal importance as a turning point in Americas history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the cases judges...
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England

Ian Mortimer - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

The author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England takes you through the world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth IFrom the author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England, this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside...
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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II

Jan Jarboe Russell - Scribner
Format: Print book

The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families - many US citizens - were incarcerated.From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America...
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Lost in the Pacific: Epic Firsthand Accounts of WWII Survival Against Impossible Odds

L Douglas Keeney - FastPencil Premiere
Format: Book

"…captivating, real, human. Epic!" — Aviation News Journal"As a former fighter pilot, I couldn't put this book down!" — James Murphy, Author of Courage to ExecuteA must for fans of the bestselling Unbroken!With dreams of flying, they enlisted from...
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Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947

D M Giangreco - Naval Institute Press
Format: Print book

Hell To Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 is the most comprehensive examination of the myriad complex issues that comprised the strategic plans for the American invasion of Japan. U.S. planning for the invasion and military occupation of Imperial Japan was begun...
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Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia 1607-1624/5: Families A-F Volume 1

John Frederick Dorman - Genealogical Publishing Company; 4 edition
Format: Print book

The purpose of the book is to establish descents--through the sixth generation--of the approximately 150 individuals who can be identified as (1) Adventurers of Purse (i.e. stockholders in the Virginia Company of London) who either came to Virginia in the period 1607-1625 and had descendants...
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The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923

Sean McMeekin - Penguin Press, an imprint of Random House LLC
Format: Print book

An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle EastBetween 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict,...
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Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel

Robert L Gandt - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state.In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate...
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A Year in the Life of Downton Abbey: Seasonal Celebrations, Traditions, and Recipes

Jessica Fellowes - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Its and there have been many changes at Downton Abbey since the family and their servants first welcomed us there twelve years ago A generation of men has been tragically lost at the front children are once again breathing new life into the great house a chauffeur now sits at the Grantham...
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Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I

E R Mayhew - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep...
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The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail

Larry E. Morris - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clarks safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells...
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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

Amanda Foreman - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER10 BEST BOOKS * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * 2011 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The New Yorker * Chicago Tribune * The Economist * Nancy Pearl, NPR * Bloomberg.com * Library Journal * Publishers...
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The Ultimate Spy Book

H. Keith Melton - Dorling Kindersley
Format: Hardcover

The insider's guide to the secret world of espionage. An inconspicuous figure in a raincoat... border crossings at midnight... living under constant threat of betrayal and torture. Are these images from the movies -- or reality? Secretive and shadowy, the world of the spy is one that...
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The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West

Christiane Bird - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A story virtually unknown in the West, about two of the Middle East’s most remarkable figures—Oman’s Sultan Said and his rebellious daughter Princess Salme—comes to life in this narrative. From their capital on the sultry African island of Zanzibar, Sultan Said and his descendants...
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The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864

Gordon C. Rhea - Louisiana State University Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. In an exciting narrative, Gordon...
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe

Rebecca Erbelding - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

America has long been criticized for refusing to give harbor to the Jews of Europe as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. Now a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar tells the extraordinary story of the War Refugee Board, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's little-known effort late in the war to save...
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Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920

Jackson Lears - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Fascinating.... A major work by a leading historian at the top of his gameat once engaging and tightly argued. The New York Times Book Review Dazzling cultural history smart, provocative, and gripping. It is also a book for our times, historically grounded, hopeful, and filled with humane,...
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Abstracts of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Tax Records 1815

Amy E K Arner - Heritage Books
Format: Print book

This is a book of abstracts of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, tax records. The original records are arranged by township and within each township alphabetically by the first letter of the surname. The author followed the same arrangement. Each entry includes the name of the taxpayer,...
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A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy

Helen Rappaport - St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen’s obsessive love for her husband – a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.After the untimely...
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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 19391945

Nicholas Stargardt - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials...
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Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History

Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

Medicine tells the fascinating story of the discipline, from ancient times to the present day, charting developments in healing, diagnosis, surgery, and drugs in a vividly visual and accessible format.Follow the gory pitfalls and the miraculous breakthroughs of medical history from...
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My Usual Table: A Life in Restaurants

Colman Andrews - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat - from Trader Vic's to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli - and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews.For reviewer,...
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The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy

Hardy Green - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

Company town The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spameach is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over...
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Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

Steve Erwin - Hay House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculees family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives...
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Denise Kiernan - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Now a New York Times Bestseller!THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians--many of them young women from...
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949

Richard Reeves - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II - pilots, navigators, and mechanics - who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report...
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book

"Elegiac and richly detailed...[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair...evocative." - Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already...
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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

John W Dower - Pantheon
Format: Paperback

Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific...
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century

Jürgen Osterhammel - Princeton University Press; Translated by Patrick Camiller. edition
Format: Hardcover

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jrgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological...
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After Diana: William, Harry, Charles, and the Royal House of Windsor

Christopher Andersen - Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"This family did not have a drop of humanity in it before. I think Ive changed that." --DianaFor all the millions of words that have been written about the People's Princess, no one has yet penetrated palace walls to reveal what has really happened to the Royal Family she left...
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Early New Englanders and Kin: A Genealogical Tree of more than 12,000 Inter-related Individuals with Roots in Early New England

Roy Burgess - Heritage Books
Format: Book

This work consists of two main parts: 1) an alphabetical listing of people with brief genealogical data on each, and 2) a series of miniature family group charts which show how they are all inter-related by blood or marriage. Includes concise Ahnentafels,
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Gloomy Terrors and Hidden Fires: The Mystery of John Colter and Yellowstone

Ronald M. Anglin - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From 1810, when a newspaper published the first account of "Colter's Run," to 2012, when one hundred and fourscore participants in Montana's annual John Colter Run charged up and down rugged trails - even across the waist-deep Gallatin River - interest in Colter, the alleged...
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The Civil War and American Art

Eleanor Jones Harvey - Yale University Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The Civil War redefined America and forever changed American art. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamorized the hero on the battlefield....
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Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635

Martha W. McCartney - Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Paperback

This book brings together a variety of primary sources that inform the reader about Virginia's earliest European inhabitants and the sparsely populated and fragile communities in which they lived, resulting in the most comprehensive collection of annotated biographical sketches yet published....
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The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

Mark Logue - Sterling; Softcover Ed edition
Format: Paperback

The "quack" who saved a king... Featuring a star-studded cast of Academy Award winners and nominees, The King's Speech won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award and is generating plenty of Oscar buzz. This official film tie-in is written...
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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Ariel Sabar - Algonquin Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In a remote corner of the world forgotten for nearly three thousand years lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic the language of Jesus Mostly illiterate they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with...
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The Taj Mahal (Wonders of Man Series)

David Carroll - Newsweek; First edition. edition
Format: Hardcover

A white jewel enclosed in a frame of dark cypresses, the Taj Mahal seems to float over the hot, flat Indian plain. Its distinctive silhouette, mirrored in the placid surface of a long reflecting pool, is instantly identifiable, for the shimmering tomb is one of the most frequently photographed...
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Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

Robert Hughes - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Romeas city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing...
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Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

Garret Keizer - Metropolitan Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this powerful, eloquent story of his return to the classroom, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocationPerhaps no profession is so constantly discussed, regulated, and maligned by non-practitioners as teaching. The voices of the teachers themselves are conspicuously...
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The Civil War at Sea

Craig L. Symonds - Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents a masterful history of the Civil War navies--both Union and Confederate--and places them within the broader context of the emerging industrial age. Symonds...
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Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945

Andrew Roberts - Harper
Format: Print book

"Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." - The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contemporary military historian." - The Economist An epic joint biography of four titanic figures - a President, a Prime Minister,...
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Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World

Marc Raboy - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book

A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships...
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

Wade Davis - Knopf; First edition
Format: Hardcover

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip ofMount Everests North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britains finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience....
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The Second World War

Antony Beevor - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest...
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The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11

Edward Alden - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

On September 10, 2001, the United States was the most open country in the world. But in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, the U.S. government began to close its borders in an effort to fight terrorism. The Bush administration's goal was to build new lines...
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Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

Michael Korda - HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's fresh, contemporary single volume historical biography of General Robert E. Lee - perhaps the most famous and least understood legend in American history and one of our most admired heroes.Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers...
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Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August & The Proud Tower

Barbara W. Tuchman - Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly...
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

Peter L Bernstein - Norton
Format: Paperback

"One corner of the great American panorama enlarged to highlight starry-eyed visionaries, political machinations, indefatigable ingenuity, and cockeyed optimism." -- Kirkus Reviews The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal,...
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How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines

Mark Stein - Smithsonian Books; Book Club Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans and what does that have to do with Rhode Island Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado All this and more is explained in Mark Steins...
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Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects

Neil MacGregor - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focusWe feel we know Shakespeares characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeths merciless and ultimately self-destructive...
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George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire

Peter Golenbock - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

The biography of one of the most controversial figures in sports: New York Yankees owner George SteinbrennerFor 34 years, he berated his players and tormented Yankees managers and employees. He played fast and loose with the rules, and twice could have gone to jail. He was banned from baseball...
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Early Marriages, Wills, and Some Revolutionary War Records: Botetourt County, Virginia

Worrell - Clearfield
Format: Paperback

These records are from the late 18th through the early 19th century. Over 6,000 individuals are named in the marriage records. The probate records identify heirs, with relationships, and give the probate date.
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century

Peter Watson - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914

David G McCullough - Simon and Schuster
Format: Book

The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here...
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Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning

Paul E. Peterson - Belknap Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become...
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Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her

Robin Gerber - Collins Business
Format: Book

"Barbie and her creator, the sharp-elbowed gal who built the biggest toy company, have a story to tell." - Time Barbie and Ruth by Ruth Gerber is the remarkable true story of the world's most famous toy and the woman who created her. It is a fascinating account of how one visionary...
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Early Church Records of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1745-1800

Marty Hiatt - Heritage Books, Inc
Format: Paperback

Earliest available records from the following churches: New Jerusalem Lutheran, birth, baptism, marriage & burial; Reformed Church of Loudoun Co., births & baptisms; Quaker Monthly Meetings of Fairfax and Goose Creek, births, marriages, deaths, minutes, a
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Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families

Keith Armstrong - Ulysses Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The bravery displayed by our soldiers at war is commonly recognized. However, often forgotten is the courage required by veterans when they return home and suddenly face reintegration into their families, workplaces, and communities. Authored by three mental health professionals with many...
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Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery

Stephen J. Pyne - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant new account of the Voyager space program-its history, scientific impact, and cultural legacy Launched in 1977, the two unmanned Voyager spacecraft have completed their Grand Tour to the four outer planets, and they are now on course to become the first man-made objects to exit...
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Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War

Peter Conradi - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover

"Balanced and timely ... a smooth narrative that provides welcome context for Russia's recent revanchist behavior and insight into prospects for ongoing U.S.-Russian relations." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Meticulously lays out the record, from Mikhail...
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life...
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Jamestown People to 1800: Landowners, Public Officials, Minorities, and Native Leaders

Martha W. McCartney - Genealogical Publishing Company
Format: Paperback

Martha W. McCartney is an award-winning research historian and author of several non-fiction books.McCartney is a William and Mary graduate. She worked for thirteen years at the Virginia Research Center for Archaeology researching and excavating diverse archaeological sites in Virginia....
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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

Alec Wilkinson - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In this grand and astonishing tale Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S A Andreacutee the visionary Swedish aeronaut who in during the great age of Arctic endeavor left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon Called by a British military officer ldquothe most...
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived

Andrew Wilson - Atria Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

We think we know the story of the Titanic—the once majestic and supposedly unsinkable ship that struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Britain to America—but very little has been written about the vessel’s 705 survivors. How did the events of that horrific night in the icy waters...
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World

Matthew Goodman - Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day - and heading in the opposite...
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The Ballad of Abu Ghraib

Philip Gourevitch - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review) A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure...
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Searching for Golden Empires: Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth-Century America

William K. Hartmann - University of Arizona Press; 4th edition
Format: Hardcover

This lively book recounts the explorations of the first generations of Spanish conquistadors and their Native allies. Author William K. Hartmann brings readers along as the explorers probe from Cuba to the Aztec capital of Mexico City, and then northward through the borderlands to New Mexico,...
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Marylanders to Carolina: : Migration of Marylanders to North Carolina and South Carolina Prior to 1800

Henry C Peden - Heritage Books
Format: Book

This volume contains over 6, 000 names drawn from thirty major sources. This item is Non-Returnable.
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The Killing of Crazy Horse

Thomas Powers - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century....
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

Rinker Buck - ‎Simon & Schuster; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 Indie Next Pick * Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting ... A book filled with so much love ... Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon." - The Wall Street...
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MacArthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

PETER EISNER - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and daring characters caught up in the intrigue of war - and the best part is that it's all true!" - Tom Maier, author of Masters of SexA thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception...
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Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

Rhonda K. Garelick - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERCertain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth...
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King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb

Zahi A. Hawass - Thames & Hudson Ltd; Slipcased Ed edition
Format: Import]

A selection of the stunning gold and jeweled contents of the tomb of the eternally fascinating Egyptian boy-king illuminate this beautifully produced wall calendar with 12 full-color photographs,
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Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

Najwa Bin Laden - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Mother and son give us an extraordinary view of the private life of a man both loved and feared by his family.
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Jerusalem: The Biography

Simon Sebag Montefiore - Knopf; First American edition
Format: Hardcover

Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of todays clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine...
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The People of Ireland, 1600-1699: Part One

Kit Dobson - Clearfield
Format: Paperback

This work draws on primary sources, such as published government records, together with references found in Irish, English, Scottish, and Dutch archives. The single most important source used in this work are the many volumes of the published Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland....
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The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History

JOSH DEAN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War - a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo - about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America's most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed...
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The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels

Janet Soskice - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Book

In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they...
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

Thomas Cahill - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history—this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary book. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas...
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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

Jack Lynch - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line...
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

Lucia Jang - W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Format: Print book

An extraordinary memoir by a North Korean woman who defied the government to keep her family alive.Born in the 1970s, Lucia Jang grew up in a common, rural North Korean household -- her parents worked hard, she bowed to a photo of Kim Il-Sung every night, and the family scraped by on rationed...
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Cherokee Intermarried White, 1906. Volume I

Jeff Bowen - Clearfield
Format: Book

This series of transcriptions from the records of the Dawes Commission concerns files of persons claiming entitlement to a portion of the Cherokee tribal lands (under the Dawes Act) in 1906, based on the intermarriage of a Cherokee and a white person. In all, nearly 4,000 individuals made...
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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

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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The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story

Lily Koppel - Grand Central
Format: Print book

Read the bestselling book that inspired the ABC television series.As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American...
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Blaine Harden - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being...
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Blood Feud: The Hatfields And The Mccoys: The Epic Story Of Murder And Vengeance

Lisa Alther - Lyons Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

America's most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield. But Southern grudges run long and deep. More than a decade later tempers flared over stolen hogs. This accusation triggered years of bloody violence...
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Abstracts of Kent County, Maryland Wills. Volume 1: 1777-1816

Christos Christou - Willow Bend Books
Format: Paperback

These are detailed abstracts, beginning at the point where the Maryland Calendar of Wills series ends.
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The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

Scott Wallace - Broadway Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

THE UNCONQUERED TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY INTO THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF THE AMAZON TO TRACK ONE OF THE PLANET'S LAST UNCONTACTED IN DIGENOUS TRIBES. Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern...
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My life on the road

Gloria Steinem - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change. ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED...
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The German Element in the Ohio Valley: Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana

Gustav Philipp Körner - Clearfield
Format: Paperback

"German-language edition originally published: Cincinnati, 1880"--T. p. verso. This item is Non-Returnable.
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

Judith Flanders - St Martin'S Press
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than...
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Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It

Michael J. Trinklein - Quirk Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably...
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1959: The Year Everything Changed

Fred Kaplan - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered...
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The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945

R J Overy - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War IITechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize...
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Marco Polo: The Journey that Changed the World

John Man - William Morrow Paperbacks; First Edition edition
Format: Print book

"I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and important historical study, it's an entertaining ride every step of the way." - John Fusco, Creator of the Netflix original...
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Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings

Craig L. Symonds - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches...
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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

Earl Swift - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

ldquoTravelers hitting the highways this summer might better appreciate the asphalt beneath their tires thanks to this engrossing history of the creation of the US interstate systemrdquomdashLos Angeles Times Perhaps nothing changed the face of America more than the creation of the interstate...
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Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets

Barry Siegel - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of A Civil Action and Gideons Trumpet, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barry Siegel unfolds the shocking true story behind the Supreme Court case that forever changed the balance of power in America.On October 6, 1948, a trio of civilian engineers joined a U.S. Air Force...
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The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan

Graeme Smith - Counterpoint
Format: Print book

With a new foreword by the author, The Dogs are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and how it went dangerously wrong. Written by a respected and fearless former foreign correspondent who has won multiple awards for his journalism (including an Emmy...
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Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

Dennis M. Powers - AMACOM; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the late 19th century, an intrepid, reckless group of men ruled the ocean. Known as "wreckers," they earned their living by rescuing and raising sunken ships, even in the face of monstrous waves and fierce weather. To some, they were heroes, helping to rescue both passengers...
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Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. 1, A-B

Robert Charles Anderson - New England Historic
Format: Hardcover

The years 1634 and 1635 were watershed years for New England immigration. The influx of immigrants represents twenty percent or more of the entire Great Migration period. Like The Great Migation Begins, these books continue to identify and document early New England families.
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Tragic Encounter: A People's History of Native Americans

Page Smith - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover

Page Smith was one of America's greatest historians. After studying with Samuel Eliot Morison at Harvard, Smith went on to a distinguished academic career that culminated with him being the founding Provost of Cowell College, the first college of the new campus of the University of California...
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The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer

Jane Smiley - Doubleday; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a  David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious...
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

Peter McPhee - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century...
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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War

Peter Englund - Tantor Audio
Format: Hardcover

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of 20 men and women from around the globe - a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event...
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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

Ruth Goodman - Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016.
Format: Print book

From an historian who advised on the BBC's Wolf Hall, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England.On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period...
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American treasures : the secret efforts to save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address

Stephen Puleo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying...
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Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone

George Black - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback

"George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planets most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and youll never think of our first -- in many ways our greatest -- national park in the same way again." -- Hampton Sides, author of Blood and ThunderEmpire...
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Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America

Jack Rakove - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become revolutionary by ambition, but when events in Boston...
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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Inara Verzemnieks - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"Extraordinarily tender and finely wrought." -- Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born ... that at some point each year the dead will come home," Inara Verzemnieks writes in this exquisite story...
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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City

Kate Winkler Dawson - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback

A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from...
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Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler

Brad Matsen - Twelve; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of historys most notorious shipwreck Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did? To answer the question,...
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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge

Antony Beevor - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day and Stalingrad reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could...
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That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution

Lars Schoultz - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover

Cuba has regularly given Washington a headache, Lars Schoultz observes in his comprehensive chronicle of U.S. policy toward the Cuban Revolution. Seeking relief, even the most patient U.S. officials have often been tempted to repeat what an exasperated President Theodore Roosevelt told...
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Art History Combined

Marilyn Stokstad - Pearson College Div
Format: 3rd Edition

In tune with todays readers-rich but never effete-this is the art history book of choice for a new generation. Presenting a broad view of art through the centuries, it sympathetically and positively introduces the works of all artists. This includes women, artists of color, and the arts...
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We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

Gillian Gill - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century-and one of history' s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a nave teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power,...
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1924: The Year That Made Hitler

Peter Ross Range - Little
Format: Print book

The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monsterBefore Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical...
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Marriages of Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1795-1843

George Gibson - Clearfield
Format: Paperback

Working from the original marriage registers, the Gibsons have compiled a list of more than 6,000 Monmouth County marriages arranged alphabetically by the surname of the groom. Each entry also furnishes the name of the bride, the date of the marriage, and occasionally other particulars...
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