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Blood and Treasure
BOB DRURY - Griffin
Format: Paperback
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller"[The] authors' finest work to date." -- Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power... |
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Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force's 617 Squadron.The attack on Nazi Germany's dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military... |
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The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos - Hanover Square Press
Format: Audiobook
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The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of PiracyCaptain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas.... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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The Glory of the Tree: An Illustrated History
Noel Kingsbury - Firefly Books; ILL edition
Format: Hardcover
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The great trees of the world in glorious color. The Glory of the Tree describes 90 species of tree that collectively span the millennia of evolution and cross the globe. Organized into six categories -- Antiquity, Ecology, Sacred, Utility, Food and Ornament -- the trees are presented... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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