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Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
Jim Al-Khalili - Broadway Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes. Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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Forever Texas: Texas, The Way Those Who Lived It Wrote It
Mike Blakely - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover
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Mike Blakely writes of the historical aspect of Texas, covering the viewpoints of the Hispanic, African American and Native American residents, as well as oilmen and dustbowl survivors. Mary Elizabeth Goldman shows the continuing glory of Texas, presenting essays from a wide scope of celebrities... |
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
JOCKO WILLINK - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield... |
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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier
Lea VanderVelde - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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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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Custer
Larry McMurtry - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history.On June 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry attacked a large Lakota Cheyenne... |
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The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past
Julie Lindahl - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: eBook
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This powerful memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story - the unclaimed... |
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The Fourth of July: And the Founding of America
Peter De Bolla - Overlook Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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The United States is a nation that touts its diversity but there is one tradition that all Americans love to share Every year on the Fourth of July Americans celebrate the founding of the nation Independence Day is the greatest of national traditions but much of the inherited lore that... |
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Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
Elizabeth Peters - William Morrow; Revised, Updated edition
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening, edifying, and endlessly entertaining tour through an astonishing bygone world - the acclaimed classic history of ancient Egypt, now newly revised and updated Writing as Elizabeth Peters, world-renowned Egyptologist... |
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Launching LBJ: How a Kennedy Insider Helped Define Johnson's Presidency
Helen O'Donnell - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"A stunning bit of political storytelling." -- CHRIS MATTHEWS, anchor of MSNBC's Hardball and author of Bobby Kennedy: A Raging SpiritKenneth O'Donnell was JFK's Chief of Staff, among the group known as Kennedy's "Irish Mafia." O'Donnell was with... |
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New Deal, The: A 75th Anniversary Celebration
Kathryn Flynn - Gibbs Smith; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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marks the th anniversary of the New Deal the series of programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help Americans recover during the Great Depression Programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps the Civil Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration gave... |
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Joseph J. Ellis - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer-winning American historian Joseph Ellis tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed... |
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Thomas Jefferson
R. B. Bernstein - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this... |
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Love Lessons from the Old West: Wisdom From Wild Women
Chris Enss - TwoDot; First edition
Format: Paperback
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From Calamity Janes relentless pursuit of Wild Bill Hickok to Emma Walters, who gave it all up for the dashing Bat Mastersonand learned to regret it, these romantic stories from the Old West are still familiar and entertaining to readers today. Meet Agnes Lake Hickok, the intrepid wife... |
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Last Men Out: The True Story of Americas Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam
Bob Drury - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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A "thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss" (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the "gripping story of a handful of marines who formed the last body of Americans to leave Saigon on April 30, 1975" (BOOKLIST ) . In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth... |
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Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Roadside Historical Markers
Betty Dooley Awbrey - Taylor Trade Publishing; 6th edition
Format: Paperback
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This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. With the most up-to-date records available, this... |
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The Pentagon: A History
Steve Vogel - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell conceived... |
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable... |
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Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
Porter Fox - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A quest to rediscover America's other border -- the fascinating but little-known northern one.America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America's primary border for centuries -- much of the early... |
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An Illustrated History of the Civil War
The Editors of Time-Life - Time Life Education
Format: Hardcover
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Culled from the finest archival collections, this extraordinary assembly of photographs, maps, cartoons, sketches, and paintings vividly illustrates the everyday lives of soldiers during the Civil War - from harsh realities to baseball tournaments between regiments. AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY... |
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A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States
Timothy J. Henderson - Hill and Wang; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to U.S. expansion, and brought to the surface a host of tensions that led to devastating... |
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Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President
Joe Wheeler - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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How Lincolns Faith Shaped His Leadership Undoubtedly the most revered leader in American history, Abraham Lincoln has had more books written about him than all our nations presidents put together. But for all thats been written, little has focused on his faith and how this quality shaped... |
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The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty
Jean Zimmerman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate that included all of Westchester County. The Dutch... |
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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating loss caused a public uproar, and those in positions of power... |
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Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia
Annette Lynch - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The clothes we wear tell stories about us - and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing... |
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The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
David Laskin - Viking; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish familyIn tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century.... |
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More Frontier Justice in the Wild West: Bungled, Bizarre, and Fascinating Executions
R. Michael Wilson - Globe Pequot Press
Format: Paperback
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More Frontier Justice in the Wild West; Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West. These stories of how society dealt with the bad guys - and how the good guys walked a fine line between... |
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Wild West Women: Fifty Lives That Shaped the Frontier
Erin H. Turner - Twodot
Format: Print book
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Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the Yukon... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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The power makers : steam, electricity, and the men who invented modern America
Maury Klein - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of the power revolution that turned America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, and the dynamic, fiercelynbsp; competitive inventors and entrepreneurs who made it happena riveting historical saga to rival McCulloughsThe Great Bridgeor LarsonsThunderstruck.... |
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The Jamestown Project
Karen Ordahl Kupperman - Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
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Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl Kupperman Host Chris Gondek Producer Heron Crane Captain John Smiths voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad He had traveled throughout Europe been sold as a war captive in Turkey escaped and returned to England in time to join... |
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Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
Carol Berkin - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers, here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jrme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte,... |
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Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd... |
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A Cold Case
Philip Gourevitch - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Follows investigator Andy Rosenzweig's three- decades-long pursuit of Frankie Koehler, a brilliant killer who keeps eluding capture. |
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The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front
Peter Hart - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of one of the bloodiest battles in world history -- a military tragedy that would come to define a generation. On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the "Big Push" that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between... |
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The First World War: A Complete History
Martin Gilbert - Henry Holt & Co
Format: Hardcover
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A companion volume to the highly acclaimed The Second World War recounts the course of the war, the enormity of its cost, the advances it brought in technology, and its effect on European society. 25,000 first printing. |
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God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
David L Lewis - W.W. Norton
Format: Print book
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"A furiously complex age; a powerful narrative." -- New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice Hailed by critics as an essential book, God's Crucible is a bold, new interpretation of Islamic Spain and the birth of Europe from one of our greatest historians. David Levering... |
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The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
Philipp Blom - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Europe, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry of superpowers. The twentieth century was not born in the trenches of the Somme... |
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Americans at War
Stephen E. Ambrose - University Press of Mississippi; First edition. edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the turbulent history of America each era has been delineated by a war. Although World War II has been the backdrop for most of his writing, perhaps no other historian has focused on modern America at war so strikingly as Stephen E. Ambrose. In this fascinating collection of fifteen... |
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond... |
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Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend
Gary L. Roberts - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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You cant beat this story for drama An omnibus of everything ever known spoken or written about Doc Holliday -Publishers Weekly An engagingly written persuasively argued solidly documented work of scholarship that will surely take its place in the literature of the Old West -Booklist... |
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Silent Heroes: Downed Airmen and the French Underground
Sherri Greene Ottis - The University Press of Kentucky; 1st. edition
Format: Hardcover
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" In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, however, pilots and crewmembers, supplied with "escape kits," knew they had a 50 percent chance of evading capture and returning... |
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The Secret Museum: Some Treasures Are Too Precious to Display...
Molly Oldfield - Firefly Books; First Edition Thus edition
Format: Hardcover
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60 unseen artifacts from the world's best museums. In Manhattan, priceless books sit on rows of shelves under traffic-jammed streets; at the Museum of Sacred Art in Brazil, a 17th century bejeweled processional cross is squirreled away under the floor; body bags in Washington protect... |
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
Mike Brown - Spiegel & Grau; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of its resulting in one more... |
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The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West
Lesley Poling-Kempes - Paragon House
Format: Hardcover
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Shares the experiences of the women who left home to work at the Fred Harvey restaurants along the route of the Atchison, Topeka, & Sante Fe Railway |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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"This is a powerful, moving, at times shocking account of three generations of Chinese women, as compelling as Amy Tan." --Mary Morris."An evocative, often astonishing view of life in a changing China." -- The New York Times |
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Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Glenn Kurtz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Named one of the best books of 2014 by NPR, The New Yorker, and The Boston GlobeWhen Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its historical significance or of the impact it will have on his life. The film, shot long ago by his grandfather... |
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The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, archaeologist Howard Carter's files dealing with the discovery of a long-lost crypt, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result... |
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Texas Adoption Activist Edna Gladney: A Life and Legacy of Love
Sherrie McLeRoy - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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In 1941, Greer Garson earned an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Fort Worth's Edna Gladney in Blossoms in the Dust." All eyes turned toward the small yet mighty Gladney and her fight for children's rights and adoption reform. Born in 1886, Edna Gladney was labeled... |
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
Cokie Roberts - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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"This collection succeeds in emphasizing that many unsung women left their mark well before the suffrage movement." - Publishers WeeklyFans of #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts, who was also a celebrated journalist for ABC and NPR, will love this stunning nonfiction... |
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Three Weeks in October
Charles A Moose - Dutton Adult
Format: Hardcover
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The police chief who led one of the tensest manhunts of the early twenty-first century takes readers behind the scenes of this notorious murder case that galvanized a nation. They were the most terrifying three weeks of any month in recent history. From Maryland to Virginia, ordinary Americans... |
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Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas
Jerry Thompson - Texas A&M University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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ldquoThompsonrsquos book provides not only a powerfully written history of a Mexican American who symbolizes lsquoresistance to oppression and intolerancersquo but also a clear cogent explanation of the relationship between the United States and Mexico as they face each other across the Texas... |
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Night
Elie Wiesel - Hill and Wang, New York; Translatio edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Barnes & Noble"In Night, I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an endman, history, literature, religion, God. There was nothing left. And yet we began again with night." First published in Argentina in 1955, Elie Wiesel's memoir about... |
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Texas
Mary Jo Powell - Interlink Pub Group Inc
Format: Paperback
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Mary Jo Powells Texas begins with a panorama of the vast Texas landscape, from the Piney Woods to Big Bend Country, before turning to the people of the land now called Texas. She begins with those who inhabited the area before the Spanish arrived, the story of the Alamo, the movement from... |
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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
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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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Stalin
EÌdvard S Radzinskij
Format: Print book
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From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculat |
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Black Cowboys of the Old West: True, Sensational, And Little-Known Stories From History
Tricia Martineau Wagner - TwoDot; First edition
Format: Paperback
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The word cowboy conjures up vivid images of rugged men on saddled horses - men lassoing cattle, riding bulls, or brandishing guns in a shoot-out. White men, as Hollywood remembers them. What is woefully missing from these scenes is their counterparts: the black cowboys who made up one-fourth... |
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Wade McClusky and the Battle of Midway
David Rigby - Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the man who won the battle of Midway and avenged Pearl Harbor for the United States.During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never... |
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Interwoven;: A pioneer chronicle
Sallie Reynolds Matthews - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sallie Reynolds Matthews wrote Interwoven so that her children and their children would know how their family and the Lambshead Ranch legacy grew on the Texas frontier. Far beyond her modest intentions, the book became a classic soon after its original publication in 1936.As Robert Nail... |
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First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis's Civil War
Joan E. Cashin - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal... |
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Big Ideas: 100 Modern Inventions That Have Transformed Our World
Alex Hutchinson - Hearst Books
Format: Print book
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From the polio vaccine to the Post-It, the personal computer to Prozac, these are the scientific and technological innovations that have transformed our world. Award-winning author Alex Hutchinson unveils the 100 greatest inventions of the modern era - starting with the discovery of the transistor... |
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Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson
Peter C Mancall - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition.In the winter... |
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Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001
Richard Bernstein - Times Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping and authoritative account of the September 11th attack, its historical roots, and its aftermathFew news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but no news organization rivaled The New York... |
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Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft
Paul Allen - Portfolio Hardcover; UNABRIDGED VERSION edition
Format: Hardcover
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By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science,... |
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The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
Howard Blum - Crown; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen are now victims of their own success. They are heroes whove outlived... |
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Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890
Peter Pagnamenta - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the British aristocracys encounter with American frontier life in the nineteenth century.From the 1830s onward, a succession of well-born Britons headed west to the great American wilderness to find adventure and fulfillment. They brought their dogs, sporting... |
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."... |
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Strength and Honor: The Life of Dolley Madison
Richard N Côté - Corinthian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Born a sprightly Quaker farm girl in the North Carolina wilderness, Dolley Payne became a wife, a mother, and soon a grieving young widow as yellow fever decimated her family. Then fate led her to James Madison, father of the Constitution, a future president, and the dearest love of her life.... |
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World Cultural Leaders of the 20th & 21st Centuries
Jennifer Durham Bass - Grey House Publishing; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A handy two-volume set that makes it easy to look up worldwide cultural icons actors in theatre and film architects novelists writers creative journalists composers conductors virtuoso performers choreographers dancers film directors and producers opera performers painters sculptors photographers... |
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck - Simon & Schuster; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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#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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The History of Texas Music
Gary Hartman - Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The richly diverse ethnic heritage of the Lone Star State has brought to the Southwest a remarkable array of rhythms instruments and musical styles that have blended here in unique ways and in turn have helped shape the music of the nation and the world Historian Gary Hartman writes knowingly... |
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The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker
Bill Neeley - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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Critical acclaim for The Last Comanche Chief"Truly distinguished. Neeley re-creates the character and achievements of this most significant of all Comanche leaders." -- Robert M. Utley author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull"A vivid, eyewitness... |
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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
Susan Freinkel - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful... |
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Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography
Kitty Kelley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author turns her piercing eye to the former First Lady in an unauthorized account of Nancy Reagan's life |
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American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America
Edmund S. Morgan - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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These revelatory stories of American heroes and their undaunted courage will forever alter our understanding of American history. The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest in the founding fathers so intense that a reader or television viewer of today might imagine that... |
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply... |
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Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith
Suzanne Strempek Shea - Beacon Press
Format: Book
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When Pope John Paul II died, Suzanne Strempek Shea, who had not been an active member of a church community for some years, recognized in his mourners a faith-filled passion that she longed to recapture in her own life. Shea, never one to do things in a conventional manner or by halves,... |
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Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners
Alison Plowden - Macmillan Pub Co
Format: Hardcover
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"A more vivd, informed and entertaining book about women in the Tudor era cannot be imagined." -- Country Life"Interesting, percipient and lively." -- The Guardian
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust
Fred Coleman - Potomac Books Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France. This young Jewish couple—he a graduate student in theater, and she a doctor—was poor but resolute. Risking their own lives and relying... |
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
Taylor Branch - Simon and Schuster
Format: Book
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In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement.Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.... |
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National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century
National Geographic Society . Book Division. - National Geographic Society
Format: Print book
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Using photographs, maps, charts, and time lines, this comprehensive volume portrays this century's incredible events and developments from the Wright Brothers' first flight to Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon, up to the events of today. Organized conveniently by decade, each... |
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The 1910 Slocum Massacre:: An Act of Genocide in East Texas
E R Bills - History Press
Format: Print book
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In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Percilla-Augusta region of neighboring Houston County. The number of dead surpassed the casualties of the Rosewood Massacre in Florida and rivaled... |
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