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Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth 1922-1939
Martin Gilbert - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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In this concluding volume of Gilbert's renowned series, readers see Churchill at the pinnacle of wartime power as Britain's victorious leader in 1945. The many-sided nature of Churchill's abilities and his achievements fill this work with a multicolored tapestry of people and events. Two 8-page... |
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Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid: America's Original Gangster Couple
Glenn Stout - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Before Bonnie and Clyde there was Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid - smarter, more successful and better looking. In the wake of war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck working-class kids from Baltimore reached for the dream of a better... |
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Stitched & Sewn: The Life-Saving Art of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel
Jody Savin - Prospect Park Books
Format: Hardcover
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A child survivor of the Holocaust, Trudie Strobel settled in California, raising a family and never discussing the horrors she witnessed. After her children grew up, the trauma of her youth caught up with her, triggering a paralyzing depression. A therapist suggested that Trudie attempt... |
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Thomas Halliday - ?Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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"Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth - from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago." - The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE * "One of those rare books... |
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A basic history of art
H. W Janson - ?H.N. Abrams; 2nd edition
Format: 2nd Edition
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For undergraduate one-semester courses in Art History, Art Appreciation, and General Humanities. Retaining the intelligence and freshness of H.W. Janson's classic original work, this unsurpassed introductory survey on the history of Western art from the ancient through modern worlds... |
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Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
Dean King - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite - from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir - iconic environmentalist,... |
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Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
Lorraine Daston - ?Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe... |
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King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
Brooke Barbier - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality.. Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock's life, Brooke Barbier depicts... |
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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Ian W. Toll - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, "one of the great storytellers of war" (Evan Thomas) .Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest... |
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
Harald Jähner - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers... |
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