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The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts

Dominic Tierney - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Why has America stopped winning wars? For nearly a century, up until the end of World War II in 1945, America enjoyed a Golden Age of decisive military triumphs. And then suddenly, we stopped winning wars. The decades since have been a Dark Age of failures and stalemates-in Korea, Vietnam,...
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more...
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Moon Cleveland

Douglas Trattner - Avalon Travel Publishing; Second Edition edition
Format: Book

Award-winning journalist and Cleveland native Douglas Trattner knows the best way to experience this often overlooked mecca. After investigating every nook and cranny of his favorite city, he now shares his expertise in Moon Cleveland. Whether you're interested in exploring the 20,000...
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

Marilynne K. Roach - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback

Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals...
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Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth

Holger Hoock - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's foundingThe American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best...
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

RUSSELL SHORTO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those...
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History

Brian Kilmeade - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

"The challenges we face today are not so different from Jeffersons, and weve much to learn from his boldness and from the courage of the marines and sailors who died to protect their country." (Brian Kilmeade) This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged...
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

Arkady Ostrovsky - Viking
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written ... much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable." - New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal...
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SHOT DOWN: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

Steve Snyder - Sea Breeze Publishing LLC; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Belgium ... February 8, 1944 ... Shot Down and Alive For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail. Author Steve Snyder's story of his father, Lieutenant Howard Snyder, and the Susan Ruth crew, provides in-depth...
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American treasures : the secret efforts to save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address

Stephen Puleo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying...
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Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

Susan Southard - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A 2015 Washington Post Notable Book of the Year"A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb's enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and haunting. . . . But the book's biggest achievement is its treatment of the aftershocks...
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

Karen Abbott - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating...
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Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics

Charles Krauthammer - Random House Large Print
Format: Paperback

From America's preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer's essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges conventional...
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Biohistory: Decline and Fall of the West

Jim Penman - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: Paperback

Western civilisation is on a path to destruction. In coming decades, economies will shrink, democracy will retreat and nations crumble. The long-term result will be grinding poverty, superstition and disease. This isn't scaremongering it is science. In Biohistory: The Decline and Fall...
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The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong

David Orr - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A cultural "biography" of Robert Frost's beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . ." One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost's poem "The...
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Lion of the Senate: When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress

Nick Littlefield - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"The best book I have read about the inner dynamics of the United States Senate." - Doris Kearns GoodwinTwo top domestic policy advisors to Senator Edward Kennedy offer an insider's view of several remarkable years when Kennedy fought to preserve the Democratic mission against...
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City of sedition : the history of New York during the Civil War

John Strausbaugh - Twelve
Format: Print book

In a single definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money,...
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero

Cate Lineberry - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"Be Free or Die makes you want to stand up and cheer. Cate Lineberry has done us all a great service by telling this incredibly moving, thrilling, and important story about an American hero who deserves to be remembered, and admired." -- Candice Millard, author of Hero...
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Kara Cooney - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. Hatshepsut - the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty - was born into a privileged position in the royal...
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Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president

Betty Boyd Caroli - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book

"Marriage is the most underreported story in political life and yet is often the key to its success. This is the idea driving a revealing new portrait of Lady Bird as the essential strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and ballast for Lyndon...[A] biography of a political...
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Ben Macintyre - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...
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Ohio Politics Almanac: Third Edition, Revised and Updated

Michael Curtin - Kent State
Format: Paperback

The Ohio Politics Almanac Third Edition, Revised and Updated Michael F. Curtin and Joe HallettRoughly a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said, I think there is only one thing in the world I can't understand, and that is Ohio politics. If The Ohio Politics Almanac had existed...
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Escape from Plauen, a True Story

Renate Stoever - iBooks
Format: Hardcover

ESCAPE?FROM?PLAUEN tells the story of wars depravation but also tells the story of faith and the will to triumph against all odds. An artist as well as a writer, Renate Stoever has an artists sensibility that lends beauty to her writing. As a result, the reader is not just an observer,...
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe

JOHN JULIUS NORWICH - ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Format: Print book

John Julius Norwich -- who the Wall Street Journal called "the very model of a popular historian" -- has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early sixteenth century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers, all born within a ten-year...
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We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City

Roberta Brandes Gratz - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is hope.We're Still...
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Island People: The Caribbean and the World

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region's common heritage...
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The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo

Juan Reinaldo Sanchez - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba. Responsible for protecting the Lider...
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914

Richard J Evans - Viking
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed...
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Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It

John Ferling - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover

Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling's latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume...
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Betrayed: The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL's Father

Billy Vaughn - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

Before BENGHAZI, There was EXTORTION 17.... August 06, 2011, 2:20 a.m.—Operation Lefty Grove is underway, a highly dangerous mission to take out another high-level Taliban operative, three months after the death of Osama Bin Laden. In the dark of night, twenty-five US Special Ops Forces...
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Jill Lepore - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story - and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminismWonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time....
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The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audiobook

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with...
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

BILL O'REILLY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,...
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland

Rory Stewart - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of The Places in Between, "a flat-out masterpiece" (New York Times Book Review) , an exploration of the Marches - the borderland between England and Scotland - and the people, history, and conflicts that have shaped it In The Places...
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

Andrew Scott Cooper - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book

An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administrationIn this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth...
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail

Jonathan Chait - Custom House
Format: Print book

"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from...
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Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

Lee Trimble - Berkley; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front, modern day Ukraine. With no food, shelter, or supplies, they were an army of dying men.The Red Army had pushed the Nazis out of Russia. As they advanced across Poland, the prison...
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Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world.On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab...
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The Lion of Sabray: The Afghani Warrior Who Defied the Taliban and Saved the Life of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell

Patrick Robinson - Touchstone Books
Format: Hardcover

Patrick Robinson, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor shares the gripping untold story of Mohammed Gulab, the Pashtun warrior who defied the Taliban and saved the life of American hero and Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell.Bestselling author Patrick Robinson helped Marcus...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind...
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The Holocaust: A New History

LAURENCE REES - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

n June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda's life was spared and her mother was sent to the gas chambers. Freda only survived because the Allies won the war--the Nazis...
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Helen Thorpe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) , and "masterful" (BOOKLIST ) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal...
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Fifty States: Every Question Answered

Lori Baird - Thunder Bay Press
Format: Hardcover

What was the last state to join the Union? What does the state quarter for Alabama look like? What is the state bird of Texas? All the answers are contained in Fifty States: Every Question Answered! Whether you’re a student or just a history buff, this book is a great reference manual...
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Blind Nation--How Ignorance and Arrogance Fueled Our Vietnam Intervention

Frank C. Nelson - Nelsofrank Enterprises
Format: Paperback

Our intervention in Vietnam was a tragic mistake. Most Americans would agree but opinions vary about what went wrong. Many feel that we could have "won" if weak-kneed politicians had not made the military fight with but one arm or that TV coverage caused the public lose its will...
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Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples

Yvonne Wakim Dennis - Visible Ink Press
Format: Print book

From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples traces the rich heritage of indigenous people. It is a fascinating mix of biography, pre-contact and post-contact history, current...
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The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men

Eric Lichtblau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis Thousands of Nazis - from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich - came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. They had little...
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

Dan Barry - Harper
Format: Print book

With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice...
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most...
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The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret

Catherine Bailey - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

For fans of Downton Abbey, this New York Times bestseller is the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWIAfter the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir...
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Not since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down has Mark Bowden written a book about a battle. His most ambitious work yet, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. By January 1968,...
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An Illustrated Guide To Bombers Of World War I and II: A Complete A-Z Directory Of Bombers, From The Early Attacks Of 1914 Through To The Blitz, The Dambusters And The Atomic Bomb Raids

Francis Crosby - Lorenz Books
Format: Book

This historical directory of bombers includes detailed information about every craft with over 300 identification photographs from around the world. 
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Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War

Kenneth L Adelman - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland - the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War - by President Reagan's arms control director, Ken Adelman.In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour...
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Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington.

Sharyl Attkisson - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

Seasoned CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today's media.Americans...
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Pennsylvania Curiosities

Clark DeLeon - Globe Pequot; Fourth edition
Format: Paperback

The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena.  These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania...
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

David Oshinsky - Doubleday
Format: Print book

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled...
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Misfortune on Clevelands Millionaires' Row

Alan F. Dutka - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Print book

Extreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husbands hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country To escape financial embarrassment James Potter the manager...
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

James Green - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other...
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty

Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney...
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art

Sebastian Smee - Random House
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart...
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

Suzy Hansen - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Overseas Press Club of Americas Cornelius Ryan Award * Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual...
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An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

Peter Fritzsche - Basic Books
Format: Print book

World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust. In An...
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The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook

Anne Trubek - Belt Publishing
Format: Print book

This book is for those who want to understand what radiates away from Terminal Tower, and who understand that as lovely as the city often is, it can sometimes be brutal, too. You will read about places no longer here, such as the Little Italy Historical Museum and League Park, as well as increasingly...
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March...
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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

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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Last to Die: A Defeated Empire, a Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II

Stephen Harding - Da Capo Press
Format: Book

Japanese emperor Hirohito officially surrendered to Allied forces on Aug. 15, 1945, but the message wasn’t delivered to all outposts and command centers until a few days later—a lapse that would have serious consequences for both Japanese and American forces, as Harding (The...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about...
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Oh Florida! : how America's weirdest state influences the rest of the country

Craig Pittman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Oh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it's a paradise. To others, it's a punchline. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these - and, more importantly, it's a Petri dish, producing trends...
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Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero

Douglas Perry - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a citys soulAs leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables daring raids were...
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Weird Civil War: Your Travel Guide to the Ghostly Legends and Best-Kept Secrets of the American Civil War

Mark Sceurman - Sterling
Format: Hardcover

Weird Civil War delves into the peculiar history and ghastly legacy of the bloodiest period in American history, featuring the eras most gripping tragic tales, fascinating facts, spooky scenarios, and eccentric characters. This brand-new volumewhich compiles the most compelling Civil War stories...
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We Got the Water: Tracing My Family's Path Through Auschwitz

Jill Gabrielle Klein - Jill Gabrielle Klein; 1 edition
Format: Book

We Got the Water is the story of the Klein family: Herman and Bertha, and their three children, Lilly, Oli and sixteen-year-old Gabi. In the spring and summer of 1944, along with more than 400,000 other Hungarian Jews, they were forced from their homes, rounded up, and sent to Auschwitz....
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster

Joshua Partlow - Knopf
Format: Print book

The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief....
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Motherland: Growing Up With the Holocaust

Rita Goldberg - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

"I am the child of a woman who survived the Holocaust not by the skin of her teeth but heroically," writes Rita Goldberg. In a deeply moving second-generation Holocaust memoir, Goldberg introduces the extraordinary story of Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank's...
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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

Giles Milton - Picador
Format: Hardcover

Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every...
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The History Book

Dk Publishing. - DK Publishing
Format: Print book

The History Book is a fascinating journey through the most significant events in history and the big ideas behind each one, from the dawn of civilization to the lightning-paced culture of today. One hundred crystal-clear articles explore the Law Code of Hammurabi, the Renaissance,...
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

2018 Edgar Award Finalist - Best Fact Crime By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.In the 1950s,...
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National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History

Diane Harris Cline - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by ancient Greece...
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A Very Principled Boy: The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior

Mark A Bradley - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Paperback

Duncan Chaplin Lee was a Rhodes Scholar, patriot, and descendent of one of America's most distinguished families - and possibly the best-placed mole ever to infiltrate U.S. intelligence operations. In A Very Principled Boy intelligence expert and former CIA officer Mark A. Bradley traces...
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Bush

Jean Edward Smith - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious...
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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the OligarchsA True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder

Ben Mezrich - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House (sixty-three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and the basis for the hit movie 21) and The Accidental Billionaires (the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network) delivers an epic drama of wealth, rivalry,...
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One Hundred Saints: Their Lives and Likenesses Drawn from Butler's Lives of the Saints and Great Works of Western Art

Bulfinch Press - Bulfinch; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In street and city names, churches and other, more personal associations, the saints are always with us. This text presents saints in all their splendour - in both word and image. The selection reflects contemporary interest and patronage. All the apostles are featured, as are the Church...
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty

Tracy Borman - Grove
Format: Print book

England's Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I - are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their political triumphs, and their overturning of the religious order are the subject of countless...
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A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War

Stanley Weintraub - Da Capo Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Maos Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures,...
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The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

Anna Keay - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

At first light on July 6, 1685, the last battle ever fought on English soil was almost over. On one side of the watery pasture at Sedgemoor was the dashing thirty-six-year-old Duke of Monmouth, the charismatic son of Charles II, adored by the people. A reformer, a romantic, and a Protestant,...
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The complete illustrated history of the Inca Empire : a comprehensive encyclopedia of the Incas and other ancient peoples of South America with more than 1000 photographs

David M Jones - Lorenz
Format: Print book

The history of the Incas fascinates the modern world. This groundbreaking book separates fact from fiction, exploring the native people of Peru and the Andes, their mythologies and ancient belief systems, and the amazing beauty of Inca art and architecture. This authoritative volume combines...
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The Witch of Lime Street: Sance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World

David Jaher - Crown Publishers, 2015.
Format: Print book

History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal.The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also...
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Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

Selwyn Raab - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership,...
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

Tim Weiner - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover

A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait...
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat....
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American epic : when music gave america her voice.

Elijah Wald - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music - blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American - without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today.Jack...
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Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

Martin Sixsmith - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

New York Times BestsellerNow a major motion picture starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and nominated for four Academy Awards: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 yearsWhen she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent...
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War

DAVID FISHER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican...
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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World

Joann Fletcher - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped...
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Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey

The Countess of Carnarvon - Broadway Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Catherine Wendell. In this transporting companion piece to the New York...
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Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate

Gary J Byrne - ‎Center Street; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

In this runaway #1 New York Times bestseller, former secret service officer Gary Byrne, who was posted directly outside President Clintons oval office, reveals what he observed of Hillary Clintons character and the culture...
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America the Strong: Conservative Ideas to Spark the Next Generation

William J. Bennett - Tyndale House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

We live in a culture that often dismisses and ridicules conservative values. By the time liberal professors, the news media, and Hollywood get through with them, many young Americans are convinced "conservative" means extremist and intolerant. It's a distortion that endangers...
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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Annie Jacobsen - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These...
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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

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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Coyote America

Dan Flores - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall...
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen

Kirstin Downey - Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in historyBorn at a time when Christianity...
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A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

EMILY MIDORIKAWA - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney...
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Our Oriental Heritage

Will Durant - Fine Communications
Format: Hardcover

[Read by Robin Field] [Our Oriental Heritage is Volume 1 -- of the eleven volume 'The Story of Civilization' Series] The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt,...
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Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight

Jay Barbree - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, Americas modern hero, historys most famous space traveler, and the first man to walk on the moon. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal the spotlight Armstrong was always reluctant to discuss his personal side of events. Here for the first time...
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Whistlestop: Reporting the Stories that Make Campaign History

John Dickerson - Twelve
Format: Print book

From Face the Nation moderator and Slate political columnist John Dickerson, WHISTLESTOP tells the stories behind the stories of the most memorable and even forgotten moments in American presidential campaign history.The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego....
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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War

John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

John McCain's evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Services...
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Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers

Simon Winchester - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.A colorful and provocative exploration of the modern Pacific Ocean--what it has been,...
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

Walter R. Borneman - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous,...
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Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

Michael Korda - HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's fresh, contemporary single volume historical biography of General Robert E. Lee - perhaps the most famous and least understood legend in American history and one of our most admired heroes.Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers...
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Eisenhower: A Life

Paul Johnson - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct profile of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores his life and enduring legacyIn the rousing style he's famous for, Paul Johnson offers a fascinating biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, with particular focus on his years as a five-star general...
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Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America

Wil Haygood - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional...
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival

Peter Stark - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band...
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50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

Steven Pressman - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 1939 - the single largest group of unaccompanied refugee children allowed into the United States - for readers of In the Garden...
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The Cost of Courage

Charles Kaiser - Other Press (NY)
Format: Hardcover

"The result is a mix of history, biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller." - The Guardian (US) This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer...
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Silent Witnesses: The Often Gruesome but Always Fascinating History of Forensic Science

Nigel McCrery - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

Crime novelist and former police officer Nigel McCrery provides an account of all the major areas of forensic science from around the world over the past two centuries. The book weaves dramatic narrative and scientific principles together in a way that allows readers to figure out crimes...
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold....
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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century

William Rosen - Viking Adult
Format: Book

How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history   In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics...
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World War I: The Definitive Visual History

R.G. Grant - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover

2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I - DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial...
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated...
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John le Carre: The Biography

Adam Sisman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of the internationally adored author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and A Perfect Spy - arguably one of the most important and influential writers of the post-World War II period - by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning...
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal

Mark Owen - Dutton
Format: Print book

The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused...
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The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

Martin Dugard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Unlock your inner explorer in this riveting account of one of history's greatest adventures - and a study of the seven character traits all great explorers share.In 1856, two intrepid adventurers, Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel a geographical unknown:...
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Einstein at Home

Friedich Herneck - Prometheus
Format: Print book

These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow, a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 1927 to 1933 at their residence in Berlin. After World War II, science historian Friedrich...
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 Bestseller in the U.K.From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's last...
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Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz

MARK FELTON - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious...
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The Glass Universe

Dava Sobel - Viking
Format: Print book

New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR,...
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Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

Jeremy A. Greene - Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts why pay more for the sameAnd yet they are not quite the same. They differ...
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The Johnstown Flood

David McCullough - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families...
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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

Kate Andersen Brower - Center Point Large Print, 2015.
Format: Large Print Library Binding

A remarkable history with elements of both In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas.America's First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight...
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of

James Bradley - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's...
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First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

Betty Caroli - Oxford University Press; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

Betty Boyd Carolis engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of Americas First Ladies. This expanded and updated fourth edition includes Laura Bushs tenure, Hillary Clintons 2008 presidential bid, and an in-depth...
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Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

Howard Blum - HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Format: Hardcover

Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American...
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front

Mary Jennings Hegar - New American Library
Format: Hardcover

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary...
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Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries

Rory MacLean - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Why are we drawn to certain cities? Perhaps because of a story read in childhood. Or a chance teenage meeting. Or maybe simply because the place touches us, embodying in its tribes, towers and history an aspect of our understanding of what it means to be human. Paris is about romantic love....
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Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate

Shawn DuBravac - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller!Our world is about to change.In Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Change the Way We Live, Work, and Communicate, Shawn DuBravac, chief economist and senior director of research at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) , argues that the groundswell...
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The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom

Nancy Goldstone - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century.Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story...
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Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone

Scott Shane - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover

Objective Troy tells the gripping and unsettling story of Anwar al-Awlaki, the once-celebrated American imam who called for moderation after 9/11, a man who ultimately directed his outsized talents to the mass murder of his fellow citizens. It follows Barack Obama's campaign against...
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The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era

Akhil Reed Amar - Basic Books
Format: Print book

A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevanceAmerica's Constitution, Chief Justice John Marshall famously observed in McCulloch v. Maryland, aspires "to...
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Gettysburg Replies: The World Responds to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover

Almost five months after the Civil Wars deadliest clash, President Abraham Lincoln and other Union leaders gathered to dedicate the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The program for the occasion featured music, prayer, orations, and benedictions. In the middle of it all,...
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Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist

Niall Ferguson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papersNo American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as "Super K" - the "indispensable man" whose advice has been sought by every president...
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The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program

BRANDON WEBB - ST MARTIN'S Press
Format: Print book

As a SEAL sniper and combat veteran, Webb was tapped to revamp the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper School, incorporating the latest advances in technology and ballistics software to create an entirely new course that continues to test the skills and even the best warriors....
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Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz - Gotham Books
Format: Print book

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools...
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Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure

Maureen Dunphy - Painted Turtle
Format: Print book

The Great Lakes Basin is the largest surface freshwater system on Earth. The more than 30,000 islands dotted throughout the basin provide some of the best ways to enjoy the Great Lakes. While the vast majority of these islands can only be reached by private boat or plane, a surprising...
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A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2

John Romer - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. Through extensive research over many decades...
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The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story

Lily Koppel - Grand Central
Format: Print book

Read the bestselling book that inspired the ABC television series.As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American...
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How to Catch a Russian Spy: The True Story of an American Civilian Turned Double Agent

Naveed Jamali - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of a young American amateur who helped the FBI bust a Russian spy in New York - sold in ten countries and in a major deal to 20th Century Fox.For three nerve-wracking years, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the Russians, trading thumb drives of sensitive technical...
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The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and Saving Europe During WWI

PETER HERNON - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe - a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.When war broke out in Europe...
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Todd S Purdum - Henry Holt
Format: Hardcover

A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passageIt was a turbulent time in America--a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a March on Washington and a governor...
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Laura Shapiro - Viking
Format: Print book

A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal...
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Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee

Shelley Fisher Fishkin - Rutgers University Press
Format: Print book

American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature "endows places with meaning." Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places that shaped American writers' lives and their art can provide deep insight into what makes their literature...
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

Richard White - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded...
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America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World--a Story in 76 Inventions

Kevin Baker - Artisan
Format: Print book

"Among the many rewards of America the Ingenious, Kevin Baker's survey of Yankee know-how, is stumbling on its buried nuggets. . . . Baker examines a wide range of the achievements that have made, and still make, America great again - and again." - The Wall Street Journal...
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Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America

Glenn Beck - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck.THEIR NAMES ARE FAMILIAR.THEIR STORIES ARE NOT.Everyone has heard of a "Ponzi scheme," but do you know what Charles Ponzi actually did to make his name synonymous with fraud? Credit...
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack

Steve Twomey - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A fascinating look at the twelve days leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - the warnings, clues and missteps - by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.In Washington, DC, in late November 1941, admirals compose the most ominous message in Navy history to warn Hawaii of possible...
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