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The Cosmic Code: Earth Chronicles Series, Book 6
Zecharia Sitchin - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Many thousands of years ago, a group of extraterrestrials from another planet guided the evolution of life on Earth - determining the existence and nature of humankind as we know it today. How did the master builders from the stars construct the miracle called man? Is the DNA that is at the core... |
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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Kenneth G Langone - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Iconoclastic entrepreneur and New York legend Ken Langone tells the compelling story of how a poor boy from Long Island became one of America's most successful businessmen.Ken Langone has seen it all on his way to a net worth beyond his wildest dreams. A pillar of corporate America for decades,... |
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Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
Bret Baier - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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With the fate of World War II in doubt and rumors of a Nazi assassination plot swirling, Franklin Roosevelt risked everything at a clandestine meeting that would change the course of history: the award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier reveals the gripping lost history of the Tehran... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act
Alex Prud'homme - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The enchanting story of Julia Child's years as TV personality and beloved cookbook author--a sequel in spirit to My Life in France--by her great-nephew Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much deeper. Now, her great-nephew and My Life in France... |
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The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
Martha Saxton - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's fatherThe Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude,... |
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The Eternal City: A History of Rome
Ferdinand Addis - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The magnificent and definitive history of the Eternal City, narrated by a master historian. Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization? Ferdinand Addis addresses... |
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A Serpent's Tale: Discovering America's Ancient Mound Builders
Lorett Treese - Westholme Publishing
Format: Print book
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The fascinating story of the enigmatic monuments that inspired American archaeology When American settlers first crossed the Appalachian Mountains they were amazed to discover that the wilderness beyond contained ancient ruins - large man-made mounds and enclosures, and impressive earthen... |
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
RYAN NORTH - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Get ready to make history. . . better.What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past . . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?Don't worry:... |
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Elaine Tyler May - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracyFor the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,... |
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George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire
Peter Y Choi - Eerdmans
Format: Paperback
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Narrates the drama of a famous preacher's entire career in his historical contextGEORGE WHITEFIELD (1714-1770) is remembered as a spirited revivalist, a catalyst for the Great Awakening, and a founder of the evangelical movement in America. But Whitefield was also a citizen of the British... |
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
REBECCA TRAISTER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies - whom Anne Lamott called "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" - comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability... |
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Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis
Eric Lichtblau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book
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The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines.
Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision... |
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The White Darkness
DAVID GRANN - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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By the New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer... |
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The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
DAVID L MEARNS - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This gripping memoir by the world's foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime history, popular science, and Clive Cussler-style adventure. David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battleship HMS Hood... |
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Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America
Fred Burton - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire--the riveting story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA Station Chief William Buckley.After a deadly terrorist bombing at the American embassy in Lebanon in 1983, only one man inside the CIA possessed the courage and skills to rebuild... |
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SIMON WINCHESTER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing... |
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
H. W. Brands - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas... |
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Wicked Women of Ohio
Jane Ann Turzillo - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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The Buckeye State produced its share of wicked women. Tenacious madam Clara Palmer contended with constant police raids during the 1880s and '90s. Only her death could shut the doors of her gilded bordello in Cleveland. Failed actress Mildred Gillars left for Europe right before World War II. Because... |
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart... |
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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Bart Van Es - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood... |
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A Concise History of Germany
Mary Fulbrook - Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
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This third edition of Mary Fulbrook's much-admired and popular introduction to German history provides a clear and informative guide to the twists and turns of the story of the German lands and peoples from the early middle ages to the present day. Crisply synthesising a vast array... |
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The Terracotta Warriors: Exploring the Most Intriguing Puzzle in Chinese History
EDWARD BURMAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China, exploring what we now know about it, what remains hidden, and the fascinating theories that surround its creation.Exciting investigations in northwest China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor,... |
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Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
A. N. Wilson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince Albert, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the royal consort's birth.For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height... |
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Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin: A Founding Father's Culinary Adventures
Rae Katherine Eighmey - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues... |
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
Elliot Ackerman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria."War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British... |
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American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Taya Kyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new bookLife leads us through difficult terrain. But what happens if you use challenge as an opportunity to discover your PURPOSE? These Americans did and are changing the world.... |
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Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel
Robert L Gandt - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of how an all-volunteer air force helped defeat five Arab nations and protect the fledgling Jewish state.In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate... |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Chris McGreal - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed,... |
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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 Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
Kate Williams - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life -- their friendship -- changed them forever. Elizabeth and Mary were cousins and queens, but eventually... |
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
STEVEN STOLL - Hill and Wang
Format: Hardcover
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Short-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book AwardIn Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest European settlers, whose desire for vast forests to hunt in was frustrated by absentee... |
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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War
Marianne Monson - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover
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Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends... |
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942
William K. Klingaman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve months following... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing... |
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A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Familys Quest for Justice
Anthony Summers - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
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Format: Hardcover
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From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings... |
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The Math Book
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Discover more than 85 of the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and proofs ever devised, and the great minds behind them, with this original, graphics-led book.Applying the Big Ideas Simply Explained series' trademark combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold... |
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Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
Daniel C. Guiet - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family... |
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The Great Halifax Explosion
JOHN U BACON - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn's harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped... |
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We Few: U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam
Nick Brokhausen - Casemate
Format: Hardcover
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This riveting memoir details the actions and experiences of a small group of Americans and their allies who were the backbone of ground reconnaissance in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. On his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit... |
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Secret Cincinnati: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Kathryn Witt - Reedy Press, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Is it safe to photograph bobolinks at a once-contaminated nuclear weapons plant? Is it possible to channel a medium from whatever realm she inhabits in the afterlife? Is that really a bathtub hanging from the ceiling? Did you know you can watch an unscripted star show with an audience of only... |
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The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
ULYSSES S GRANT - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant's Memoirs yet published.One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's... |
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of WWII
ANTONY BEEVOR - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account.On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane... |
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans - Portfolio
Format: Book
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until... |
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years... |
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The Red Baron
Barry Pickthall - Pen and Sword
Format: Paperback
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Beginning his wartime career on the Western Front in August 1916, Manfred von Richthofen, or the Red Baron as he became known, had shot down an impressive total of fifteen aircraft by January 1917, as well as being appointed commander of his own unit. By the time of his death in 1918, he had destroyed... |
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Williamson Murray - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced... |
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The rivers ran backward : the Civil War and the remaking of the American middle border
Christopher Phillips - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Most Americans imagine the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries of freedom and slavery: a straightforward division between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas. However, residents of these western border states,... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer - Flatiron Books
Format: eBook
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence... |
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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
Eric Jay Dolin - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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In a work rich in maritime lore and brimming with original historical detail, Eric Jay Dolin, the best-selling author of Leviathan, presents an epic history of American lighthouses, telling the story of America through the prism of its beloved coastal sentinels.Set against the backdrop... |
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
RUSSELL SHORTO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Margaret O'Mara - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
MARC AMBINDER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile... |
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The Heartland: An American History
Kristin L. Hoganson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A history of a quintessentially American place - the rural and small town heartland -- that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area... |
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal... |
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
Robert Kershaw - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A visceral and momentous narrative of the first twenty-four hours of D-Day on Omaha Beach: the most dramatic Allied landing of World War II.Before World War II, Normandy's Plage d'Or coast was best known for its sleepy villages and holiday destinations. Early in 1944, German commander Field... |
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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS
Nada Bakos - Little
Format: Print book
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The story of a young woman from Montana who joined the CIA and worked her way up through the ranks to the frontline of the fight against Islamic extremists. In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller. In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American... |
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The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan
Stephen Harding - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book
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In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's... |
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The Battle of Agincourt
Anne Curry; Malcolm Mercer - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Published in partnership with the Royal Armouries, this comprehensive, sumptuously illustrated volume provides a defining reassessment of England's legendary victory on the fields of Agincourt on October 25, 1415. Dramatized by William Shakespeare in Henry V, the Battle... |
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
CROWN. - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses - and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled... |
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Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
Hedi Fried - Scribe US
Format: Hardcover
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"There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer." Hdi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where she and her sister were forced into hard... |
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The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire
Francesca Cartier Brickell - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating story of the family behind Cartier, and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon--as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives.The Cartiers is the revealing tale... |
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Betty Crocker Lost Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes for Today's Kitchen
BETTY CROCKER - Betty Crocker
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cookBetty Crocker Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes with... |
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Country Music: An Illustrated History
Dayton Duncan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019This gorgeously illustrated and hugely... |
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The Unknowns
PATRICK O'DONNELL - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives... |
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
Ruth Goodman - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap... |
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,... |
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No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History
Gail Collins - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America, by the beloved New York Times columnist."You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship... |
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The Movie Musical!
Jeanine Basinger - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white--an essential text for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies.Leading... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter... |
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Penny Junor - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled... |
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The Story of Greece and Rome
Tony Spawforth - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However,... |
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery; Library Edition
Tom Cotton - Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook
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THEIR DUTY IS SACRED. THEIR STANDARD IS PERFECTION. An extraordinary journey behind the scenes of Arlington National Cemetery, Senator Tom Cotton's Sacred Duty offers an intimate and inspiring portrait of "The Old Guard," the revered U.S. Army unit whose mission is to honor... |
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The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
Iain Ballantyne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of the submarine's evolution from its ancient beginnings to its culmination as the deadliest vessel ever invented.A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat -- originally derided and loathed in equal measure -- evolved into... |
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
Karen Tongson - University of Texas Press
Format: Paperback
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In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international... |
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A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History
Jay Sexton - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises--not unlike those of the present day--have determined our nation's course from the startIn A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress,... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
Porter Fox - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A quest to rediscover America's other border -- the fascinating but little-known northern one.America's northern border is the world's longest international boundary, yet it remains obscure even to Americans. The northern border was America's primary border for centuries -- much of the early... |
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This is history at its most immediate and moving ... A marvelous and memorable book." - Jon Meacham "Remarkable ... A priceless civic gift ... On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken."... |
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
BRIAN CASTNER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy - Little
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
MARY BEARD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed... |
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Eric Jay Dolin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas. Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop... |
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland
Rory Stewart - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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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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Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam
Stephen Coonts - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting Vietnam War story--and one of the most dramatic in aviation history--told by a New York Times bestselling author and a prominent aviation historianEvery war has its "bridge"--Old North Bridge at Concord, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the railway bridge over... |
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Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
Peter Rees - Allen & Unwin
Format: Print book
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By the end of World War I, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service, and over 200 had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance, but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never have... |
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Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement
Jessie Morgan-Owens - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams -- a slave girl who looked "white" -- whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement.When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became... |
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The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
Janine di Giovanni - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Book
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Once in a decade comes an account of war that promises to be a classic. Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience... |
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Jared Diamond - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding... |
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Views
Drake
Format: CD
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Drake's long-awaited fourth "real" album, Views, found the rapper in a typically introspective but still defiant mood, reflecting on his city, his life, and his place in the rap world. Made up of trap beats, '90s-inspired R&B ballads, the occasional foray into Caribbean pop, and "Hotline... |
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Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
BRIAN VANDEMARK - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much... |
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Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches
Marcia A Zug - New York University Press
Format: Print book
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There have always been mail-order brides in America but we haven t always thought about them in the same ways. In Buying a Bride, Marcia A. Zug starts with the so-called Tobacco Wives of the Jamestown colony and moves all the way forward to today s modern same-sex mail-order grooms to explore... |
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The Impossible State, Updated Edition: North Korea, Past and Future
Victor Cha - Ecco
Format: Paperback
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"Drawing upon his unique and deep academic work and policy experience, Victor Cha has produced one of the most astute, insightful, and lucid texts on North Korea. Simply put, this book is a must-read for all - experts and casual observers alike - interested in developments on the Korean... |
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