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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your... |
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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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The Witch of Lime Street: Sance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World
David Jaher - Crown Publishers, 2015.
Format: Print book
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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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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
Bob Drury - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against... |
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Lisa McCubbin - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Presidents and The Kennedy Detail comes an "insightful and beautifully told look into the life of one of the most public and admired first ladies" (Publishers Weekly) - Betty Ford. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate,... |
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
Chris Wallace - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events across the globe during the 116 days leading up to the world's first use of the atomic bomb in wartime - the American attack on Hiroshima... |
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Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing... |
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The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
Don Brown - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafe missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan. Even days after America dropped the atomic bombs - on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9 - the pilots continued... |
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