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Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

Lena S. Andrews - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies' victory.Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served...
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Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family

Daniel Finkelstein - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

An epic and uplifting World War II family history of resistance that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering under Hitler and Stalin, and the near-miraculous survival stories of the author's mother and father.. In Two Roads Home beloved...
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How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

Esau McCaulley - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for home and hope. "A riveting book that invites you into the personal journey of one of the finest writers alive today."...
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland

Scott Shane - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first...
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Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

Lee Berger - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree.. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small...
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The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World

Sung-Yoon Lee - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest generation of North Korea's secretive and murderous dynasty.. The first woman ever to issue the threat of a nuclear weapons strike is not even...
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Bipolar General: My Forever War with Mental Illness

Gregg F. Martin

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I - this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. . September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden...
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