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The 40s: The Story of a Decade

The New Yorker Magazine - Random House; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Including contributions byW. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop John Cheever Janet Flanner John Hersey Langston Hughes Shirley Jackson A. J. Liebling William Maxwell Carson McCullers Joseph Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Ogden Nash John OHara George Orwell V. S. Pritchett Lillian Ross...
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World War II Map by Map

DK - DK
Format: Hardcover

Trace the epic history of World War 2 across the globe with more than 100 detailed maps.In this stunning visual history book, custom maps tell the story of the Second World War from the rise of the Axis powers to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Each map is rich...
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Eleanor

David Michaelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired...
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WILD NEW WORLD : the epic story of animals and people in america

DAN FLORES - W W NORTON
Format: Hardcover

A deep-time history of how humans engaged wildlife in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.In 1908, a cowboy discovered bones from an extinct giant bison near Folsom, New Mexico. When archeologists found handmade weapons embedded in the fossils,...
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor

Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover

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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I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir

Val Kilmer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

MARK LEE GARDNER - ?Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars."Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull:...
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All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1863

Sidney Blumenthal - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Volume III of Sidney Blumenthal's "magisterial" and "masterful" biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, brings the prairie lawyer out of his wilderness into the presidency. Lincoln rises from defeat and obscurity to become the Commander-in-Chief who strikes...
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