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Tangles: A Cold War Love Story and Mystery"In a well-crafted debut, Smith-Blum provides the reader a ringside seat to the birth of the nuclear age...a beautifully written, important story...Tangles packs a punch and hits close to home." -Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Tracy Crosswhite SeriesOppenheimer was just...
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Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920sThe adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as...
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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing CrewOn December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo--and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the...
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo NeighborhoodLogavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance. On this street of 240 families, Muslims and Christians, Serbs and...
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram"Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid--and despite--the horror and chaos of war."--Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Brutally honest and...
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of AfricaIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history-from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in Monrovia, to the...
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Undefeated"[Freeman is] an excellent storyteller."--Sports IllustratedThe 1972 Miami Dolphins, under the expert leadership of legendary coach Don Shula, remain to this day the only team in the National Football League ever to enjoy a perfect season with no defeats and no ties. Now, 40...
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To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett"So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles."--Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling authorFrom Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett, detailing Garrett's riveting chase of...
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used...
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied FranceNew York Times Bestseller"A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance." -Marie ClaireThe riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were deported together to Auschwitz, a remarkable number of whom survived.In January 1943, 230 brave women...
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The Band That Played on: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the TitanicThe movies, the documentaries, the museum exhibits. They often tell the same story about the "unsinkable" Titanic, her wealthy passengers, the families torn apart, and the unthinkable end. But never before has "that glorious band," the group of eight musicians who played on as...
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess MachineBy the authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker, a riveting account of the legendary 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky, the world champion from the Soviet Union, and the American challenger Bobby Fischer In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring...
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final MissionThe blockbuster #1 national bestseller, now updated with a new preface and postcript: Bret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower...
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The Wicked CityFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age, a deliciously spicy new Jazz Age adventure and the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams. Two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment...
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The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American HeritageAuthor: Jack LarkinPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 01/15/2020Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00dISBN: 9780060916060
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Andrew JacksonBy "the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time" (New York Times), the critically acclaimed and most concise biography of Andrew Jackson that takes a comprehensive look at the political, personal, and military life of the seventh president of the United States.Author: Robert V. ReminiPublisher:...
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50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission Into the Heart of Nazi GermanyTwo Ordinary Americans. Fifty Innocent Lives. One Unforgettable Journey.In early 1939, few Americans were thinking about the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the growing number of Jewish families who were increasingly threatened and brutalized by Adolf Hitler's...
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Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest HourA stirring testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of music, Violins of Hope tells the remarkable stories of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust, and the Israeli violin maker dedicated to bringing these inspirational instruments back to...
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The Nazis Next DoorRead the history behind the series THE HUNTERS (starring Al Pacino) in this "captivating book rooted in first-rate research" (New York Times Book Review) that tells the true story of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals. For the first time,...
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A Lonely Death"Todd's Ian Rutledge mysteries are among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days."--Washington PostCritics have called Charles Todd's historical mystery series featuring shell-shocked World War One veteran Inspector Ian Rutledge "remarkable" (New York Times Book Review), "heart-breaking" (Chicago Tribune), "fresh and original"...
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