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Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai

James Carter - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai.It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, in a new city center built to challenge...
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The Ultimate Evil: The Search for the Sons of Sam

Maury Terry - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback

On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the Son of Sam murders that had terrorized New York City for over a year. Berkowitz confessed to shooting sixteen people and killing six with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver, and the case was officially closed. Journalist Maury Terry...
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The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation

Thomas Fleming - Da Capo
Format: Hardcover

In the months after her husband's death, Martha Washington told several friends that the two worst days of her life were the day George died - and the day Thomas Jefferson came to Mount Vernon to offer his condolences.What could elicit such a strong reaction from the nation's original...
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

NATHANIEL PHILBRICK - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant AmbitionIn the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat...
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The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History

Stephan Talty - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The gripping true story of the origins of the mafia in America - and the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it *Film rights optioned by Paramount Studios, starring Leonardo DiCaprio* Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York...
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An Uncommon History of Common Things, Volume 2

National Geographic. - National Geographic Soc, 2015.
Format: Print book

This vivid, engrossing book reveals the fascinating stories behind the objects in your world, what you wear, what you eat, what entertains you, and more. Discover the history behind the world's tallest skyscrapers, find out when people first started drinking caffeine and why it wakes...
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

Helen Zia - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution - a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner. . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history...
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The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera

Matthew Aucoin - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of reproducing the glory of ancient Greek drama, which no one can be sure was sung in the first place. Its greatest artists have strived to capture...
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

Richard Reeves - Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Format: Print book

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed...
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In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves

Bill Streever - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling exploration of the science and history of the deep sea.Full of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening...
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