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The Red Address BookThe global fiction sensation--published in 32 countries around the world--that follows 96-year-old Doris, who writes down the memories of her eventful life as she pages through her decades-old address book. But the most profound moment of her life is still to come...Meet Doris, a...
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The Girl From the TrainSix-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy...
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Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real AmericaIf you liked Sold on a Monday and Beautiful Exiles, you'll love this novel about strong-willed trailblazing photographer, Dorothea Lange, whose fame grew during World War II and the Great Depression. "Hooper excels at humanizing giants....seamlessly weaving together the time, places and people in...
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Funny MoneyFrom esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America's banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters,...
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Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom ThurmondBreaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the late Strom Thurmond, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation (one of his signature political achievements was...
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Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian DoctrineWhat must a person believe to be a Christian? In this collection of 16 essays, famed author Dorothy L. Sayers discusses why the church desperately needs to refocus on doctrine, as doctrine impacts all of life.In her dynamic and sharp writings, Dorothy L. Sayers...
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Suncoast Empire: Bertha Honore Palmer, Her Family, and the Rise of Sarasota, 1910-1982Silver Medal Florida Book Awards NonfictionIn the early 20th century, Bertha Palmer was one of the best-known and wealthiest women in America. She was an art collector, women's rights advocate, businesswoman, owner of Chicago's Palmer House Hotel, and had elegant homes in Chicago, Paris,...
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The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the NortheastA compelling and entertaining look at organized crime in Rhode Island in the 1970s.Author: Wayne Worcester,Randall Richard,Tim WhitePublisher: Globe Pequot PublishingPublished: 08/01/2016Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9781493009596Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/12/2016About the AuthorTim White is a prize-winning investigative reporter...
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The Eleventh ManDriven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around...
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The First Heroes: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid--America's First World War II Vict oryImmediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to restore the honor of the United States with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, eighty brave young men, led by the famous...
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Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and MemoryA timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels Holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion picture Denial, starring Rachel Weisz. The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet...
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Here I Stand: A Life of Martin LutherThe authoritative, unforgettable biography of Martin Luther, the great religious leader, who entered a monastery as a youth and who, as a man, shattered the structure of the medieval church. Luther spoke out against the corrupt religious practices that then existed. His demanded that...
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller CenterIn this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart...
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When Harlem Was in Vogue"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."--The New York Times Book Review.Author: David Levering LewisPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 06/01/1997Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.*A New York Times Bestseller* A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America's Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too...
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. FordThe New York Times bestseller?and the candid voice of an American president In 1974, Newsweek correspondent Thomas M. DeFrank was interviewing Gerald Ford when the Vice President blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet. He then extracted a promise not to publish it. ?Write it when...
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Speed Kings: The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the WorldA story of risk, adventure, and daring as four American bobsledders race for the gold in the most dangerous competition in Olympic history. In the 1930s, as the world hurtled toward war, speed was all the rage. Bobsledding, the fastest and most thrilling way...
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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired ChicagoWith a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, award-winning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal- and gave Chicago its most famous story. The Girls of Murder City recounts two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases and...
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Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great PicturesA spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old...
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New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603No period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underlying religious motivations for the savage violence and turbulence of the period-from...
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