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A Farewell to ArmsDrawn from Ernest Hemingway's own life, A Farewell to Arms is one of America's greatest novels of love and war. Set in Italy during World War I, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of Frederic Henry, a young American volunteer struck by a...
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Democracy in AmericaFrench nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville's classic treatise on the American way of life. Over 175 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville, an astute political scientist, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy. Here, Tocqueville discusses the advantages and...
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When They Came HomeAlthough Edith longs to be a wife, her tiny town has few eligible men. But when soldiers returning from WWI come to work on her family's farm, she meets Milton. They court, marry, and have two daughters, but slowly the horrors he endured while...
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Where the Sea Lavender GrowsA woman restoring a historic cottage on the English coast uncovers a startling connection to the past in a haunting and bittersweet novel about art, loss, and love by the author of Closest Kept.Elise, an artist grieving the loss of her son and a...
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WesterlyIn an unforgettable saga of survival, motherhood, sisterhood, and the secrets that haunt us, one desperate decision creates a fault line that spans decades and threatens to break a family wide open.In 1946, two German sisters, child refugees in a program dubbed Operation Shamrock,...
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The Underground SistersFrom the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife comes a story of selfless sacrifice, women's bravery and the importance of keeping memories alive.We'll make sure they never forget. We'll make sure that every recipe, every poem, every note is remembered, and never, ever forgotten....
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Confidence of The MobBetrayed by the Government He Served, He Became the Mob's Most Trusted Advisor.Boston, 1950s. Fred G. Pastore was one of the IRS's most feared investigators-a relentless enforcer tasked with dismantling the Patriarca crime family, tracking illegal gambling money, and exposing tax fraud at the...
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War StoryJan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on Antonina's diary and other historical sources, best-selling naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates...
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at WarAmerica, how well do you know your history? Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor? Which first lady refused to serve alcohol in the White House?...
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Heirs of Falcon Point: Volume 1The Nazis have taken control of Austria, and wealthy widower Leopold Lang faces a difficult decision: join the ranks of the foreign power that has taken over his homeland or flee with his children to safety. Leopold makes his choice--but too late. His family...
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The Clockmaker's WifeThe world is at war. And time is running out... London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter - leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben...
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In the Great QuietA pioneer unwaveringly endures the Oklahoma frontier in an epic adventure about a woman haunted by secrets and searching for home.A cannon booms at high noon, and the race begins in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893.Amid the crowd is Minnie Hoopes. Tenacious and...
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The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota HistoryOn May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory. A young man of...
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Annie ElginThis story begins with Annie's return to Ogden, after attending her brother's wedding in St. Louis.Annie is a successful milliner and business woman, in a town that doesn't always embrace outsiders. With her charm and sense of style, she has been able to win...
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Born on the Fourth of July"Classic and timeless!" --New York Times"As relevant as ever, this book is an education. Ron is a true American, and his great heart and hard-won wisdom shine through these pages." --Oliver Stone, filmmakerThis New York Times best seller (more than one million copies sold),...
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What Has Government Done to Our Money?What Has Government Done to Our Money? was first published in 1962 as "Money, free and unfree", and details the history of money, from early barter systems, to the gold standard, to present-day systems of paper money. Rothbard explains how money was originally developed,...
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The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile EditionIn the segregated US of the mid-twentieth century, African-American travelers could have a hard time finding towns where they were legally allowed to stay at night and hotels, restaurants, and service stations willing to serve them. In 1936, Victor Hugo Green published the first...
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Adventures of Huckleberry FinnIntroduction by George Saunders Commentary by Thomas Perry Sergeant, Bernard DeVoto, Clifton Fadiman, T. S. Eliot, and Leo Marx "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote. "It's the best book we've had." A complex...
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The Glenberry Wives1959. The Glenberry Castle household warily awaits the return of its laird and his glamorous bride, Mimi, with her modern American ways. As she sets about winning them over, especially stalwart estate manager Iain Watson, Mimi's greatest challenges seem to be the castle's menacing...
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Doctor Faustus'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?' Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative and...
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