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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas"[One] of the great stories of the West, and written . . . in the spirit of the sages, with a scrupulous regard for truth and history."--Atlantic MonthlyCrazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed...
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Black Messiahs"A truly engaging, richly crafted narrative." -Kirkus ReviewsIn December 1941, Amos and Samuel Johnson, brothers from Chicago's Southside, enlist in the US Army, one from a sense of duty, the other seeking adventure and an escape from his family's expectations. But the segregated Army...
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A Coat Dyed Black: A Novel of the Norwegian Resistance"A heart-wrenching and poignant story of bravery. An impressive debut; I loved it." -Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The World Played Chess and the Tracy Crosswhite series A young farmer turns into a courageous resistance fighter after Nazi Germany invades Norway...
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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club MusicTough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away. In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years' worth of interviews with dozens of DJs,...
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Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of AuschwitzHaving lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept...
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Life Close to the BoneJohn Greenburn used to be somebody. Now, he's just a middle-aged guy, sitting behind his computer screen, waiting for his life to come to a screeching halt. Cogniv-Pharma, a Florida-based pharmaceutical company with deep pockets and a secret to hide, has caught the attention...
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WarCéline had long claimed that Death on the Installment Plan was part of a trilogy, and that the manuscripts of War and London had been stolen by the Resistance from his apartment, when he fled for his life--an abhorred collaborator--from Paris. Few believed him,...
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The Beantown GirlsAn Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II's brightest heroines--the Clubmobile girls--take on the front lines.1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She'll work in city hall, marry her fiancé when he...
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Natalja's StoriesKnown primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories, modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, takes an usual approach to the theme of migration by focusing on the shifting ground of meaning itself. It is a...
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Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New EditionChe Guevara's classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy. Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a...
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race LawHow American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes....
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The Keeper of Happy EndingsAn enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls.Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal...
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The Wit & Wisdom of FDRIn Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the premier collection of noted sayings, Mark Twain is the only American with more citations under his name than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR was the greatest raconteur to occupy the White House between the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald...
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The Garden of Finzi-ContinisThe haunting, classic novel of Fascist Italy on the brink of World War II, made into an Academy Award-winning film The Finzi-Continis are an aristocratic Jewish family who live an insular life behind the walls of their estate in the northern Italian city of...
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Cat and MouseThe setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's "mouse"-his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild series of events that ultimately leads to Mahlke's becoming a...
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NSSM 200 The Kissinger Report: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests; The 1974 National Security StudyIn 1974, President Richard Nixon ordered his national security council, under the direction of Henry Kissinger, to study the implications of population growth to the interests of the United States and propose action. This classified study was called NSSM-200. The study was concluded later...
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IllustriousOn the eve of their 50th anniversary celebration they face the first serious threat to their vaunted marriage...Max Godfrey and Stella Flynn are Hollywood royalty, but their successful careers in film and music mean far less to them than their marriage, their four children...
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African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United StatesExplore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History! The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The people who dared to stand up and speak out against the systemic cruelty and oppression were often brutally killed for their...
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The Third Man and the Fallen IdolThe Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless in Vienna to visit his old friend and hero Harry Lime. Harry is dead, but the circumstances surrounding...
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Our Lady of the NightFrom internationally-acclaimed novelist Mayra Santos-Febres comes a carnal, epic novel about the life of Isabel "La Negra" Luberza--a legendary Puerto Rican madam who, by the end of World War II, became the most powerful woman on the island.Born into poverty and then abandoned by...
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