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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution

Robert P Watson - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck without light or fresh air, the disease-ridden prisoners were scarcely given food and water. More Americans...
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The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster

Kevin Cook - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

You've seen the pictures. You know what happened. Or do you?On January 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded after blasting off from Cape Canaveral. Christa McAuliffe, America's "Teacher in Space," was instantly killed, along with the other six members...
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American Entrepreneur: How 400 Years of Risk-Takers, Innovators, and Business Visionaries Built the U.S.A.

Willie Robertson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The CEO of Duck Commander and star of Duck Dynasty tells the stories of the extraordinary men and women who symbolize the American entrepreneurial spirit. 100,000 first printing.
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

Sally Bedell Smith - Random House
Format: Hardcover

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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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Beginning in 1990 on a quest that would consume him for the rest of his life, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Les Payne...
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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

Matthew Kneale - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." - The Sunday Times (London) Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City - from the early...
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Sarah Rose - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed Britain was locked in an existential...
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Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Edward Slingerland - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover

While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends...
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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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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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