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The World That We KnewNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL On the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother's act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival. "[A] hymn to the...
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The World at HomeFor fans of Christina Baker Kline and Fiona Davis, a coming-of-age story about a young woman discovering love, loss, and the power of her own creativity in World War II San Francisco. San Francisco in 1944 is a bustling place, a revolving door of...
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The Tin DrumOne of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Matzerath provides a profound yet hilarious perspective...
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The SalvageIt is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a trailblazing marine archaeologist, has been called to Cairnroch, a small island off the east coast of Scotland. A Victorian shipwreck, dragged from arctic waters, holds the remains of a celebrated explorer and the treasures of his final...
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The Paris Dressmaker: A Novel of WWIIBased on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II--from fashion houses to the city streets--comes a story of two courageous women who risked everything to fight an evil they could not abide. Perfect for fans of Madeline Martin...
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The Midwife of BerlinA gripping WWII story of one woman's determination to find her baby in the gruesome aftermath of surviving Auschwitz, perfect for readers of The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz. Auschwitz, 1943: I stroke my beautiful baby's hair. It's a miracle it's blonde because it...
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The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and SurvivalIncredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West. The "mountain men" were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals,...
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The Rest Is MemoryFirst glimpsed riding on the back of a boy's motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn,...
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Native American History: Accurate & Comprehensive History, Origins, Culture, Tribes, Legends, Mythology, Wars, Stories & More of The Native IndigenousDiscover The Soul, Spirit & History of The Great Native American HeritageThe mysterious beginnings of Indigenous communities began in North America over 15,000 years ago. Tragically, and for far too long, the various Indigenous cultures in North America have been systematically mistreated, misrepresented, and...
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The Holly Village Murders: A Cozy Christmas MysteryThe snow falls, carollers sing, and a killer plots his next move...London, 1928. Marius Quin and Lady Bella Montague are ready for a quiet Christmas when they learn that Bella's beloved Aunt Adele has met a shocking end in her picture-perfect cottage. Immediately heading...
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Up the ShenandoahA family divided by war. A valley scarred by blood. A fight for survival and honor.In 1864, the Shenandoah Valley becomes the crucible for the Eshenbaugh family. Andrew marches with Sheridan's Union cavalry, leaving his wife and children to defend the farm against ruthless...
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Secrets in the WoodsOn October 8, 1871, fire turned night into a living hell. While Chicago's blaze claimed the headlines, a fiercer and more devastating inferno swept across Wisconsin's Green Bay peninsula-obliterating farms, forests, and families in its path.Here, among immigrant settlers carving new lives from the...
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Orphans of the LivingA debut historical fiction for fans of Kristin Hannah and John Steinbeck, Orphans of the Living follows the Stovall family's early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they confront racism, poverty, and inequality across the American South and West. In the shadow of...
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History"Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination." --Chicago Sun-Times On October 8, 1871--the same night as the Great Chicago Fire--the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a...
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a PresidentAn "elegant and illuminating" (Jon Meacham) family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that...
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Forget You Saw Her: A standalone prequel to Ask for AndreaShe lost her daughter once. Now she'll go to hell andback to find her.Seventeen years ago, Sabina gave her baby up for adoption. She's wrestled with the decision ever since, clinging to the hope that she gave her daughter, Andrea, a better life. Then...
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Defending My Enemy: Skokie and the Legacy of Free Speech in AmericaWith a foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and an afterword by Nadine Strossen A new edition of the most important free speech book of the past half-century, with a new chapter by the author on some of the top First Amendment controversies of...
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The Communist's SecretFrom former Pentagon official and award-winning historical novelist Suzanne Parry comes The Communist's Secret--a haunting WWII novel of betrayal, bravery, and second chances. Driven by a blind devotion to the Communist Party, self-centered Katya Karavayeva has broken the most important rule in Soviet society:...
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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called BuczaczWinner of the Yad Vashem International Book Book Prize for Holocaust Research "A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence" (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level--turning neighbors, friends,...
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Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and FordThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years on the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and...
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