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Warriors in WashingtonHow did the US Army emerge as one of the most powerful political organizations in the United States following World War II? In this book, Grant H. Golub asserts that this remarkable shift was the result of the Army's political masters consciously transforming the...
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Macarthur's Airman: General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest PacificA fighter pilot who flew 75 combat missions in World War I, George C. Kenney was a charismatic leader who established himself as an innovative advocate of air power. As General MacArthur's air commander in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, Kenney played...
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Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi DemocracyA revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism. Germany's Protestant churches, longtime strongholds of nationalism and militarism, largely backed the Nazi dictatorship that took power in...
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Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our TimeUNCENSORED! Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley is the ultimate insider admission of a secret global elite that has impacted nearly every modern historical event. Learn how the Anglo-American banking elite were able to secretly establish...
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A Map to Paradise"1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter's agoraphobia allows for just short...
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The Dressmakers of London"The author of the "enthralling" (Woman's World) The Lost English Girl returns with a heartfelt new novel about estranged sisters who inherit their late mother's dress shop in World War II London. Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her...
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JFK: Public, Private, SecretAuthor: J. Randy TaraborrelliPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 08/27/2025Pages: 977Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.75lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 2.00dISBN: 9781420524369
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The 1990s: A Visual History of the DecadeA visual celebration of a seminal decade. As the Cold War ended and a new millennium approached, grunge, hip--hop, and rave exploded in popularity as teenagers and twenty--somethings searched for something real, something more meaningful. Ostentation was out. Authenticity was in.And so, we had...
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The Happiest Place on Earth: The Incredible Story of Walt Disney's DisneylandOn the 70th anniversary of Disneyland, a look back at the theme park that started it all--an illustrated history of Walt's first theme park! The ultimate coffee table book for Disney collectors and armchair travelers alike, brimming with more than 750 images, previously unpublished...
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Great American NegroesGreat American Negroes is a comprehensive guide to the lives and achievements of notable African Americans throughout history. Written by Ben Richardson, the book provides a detailed account of the contributions made by influential figures such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther...
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John Lewis: A Life"A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents. Born into poverty...
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Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic WorldHow abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their personal connection to, and complicity with, slavery in the late eighteenth...
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Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKennaAn intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946-2000) was the twentieth century's psychedelic...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade HistoryWinner, 2025 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians Winner, 2024 Arline Custer Memorial Book Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Winner, 2025 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Library History Round Table of The American Library Association Honorable Mention, 2025 Lawrence W. Levine...
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Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned about the HolocaustHow did American Jews come to learn about the Holocaust in the immediate aftermath of the war? What kinds of images and representations of Holocaust survivors first circulated in America, when most Jewish survivors were still stuck in European displaced persons camps? Drawing on...
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Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual BiographyThe life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkers Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he shaped ideas about liberalism and democracy, the nature...
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The NightingaleAuthor: Kristin HannahPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 10/01/2025Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.60dISBN: 9781420528794Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.2Point Value: 22Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 184786 / Nightingale
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33 Place BrugmannAuthor: Alice AustenPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 10/15/2025Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.40w x 1.20dISBN: 9781420527841
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The Lion Women of TehranFrom the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely...
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The Greatest of All Time: A History of an American ObsessionAmericans love to talk about 'greatness.' In this book, Zev Eleff explores the phenomenon of 'greatness' culture and what Americans really mean when they talk about greatness. Greatness discourse provides a uniquely American language for participants to discuss their 'ideal' aspirational values and make...
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