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Bad JulietAt a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster."Bad Juliet will hold you in its grip from its opening pages, combining the pacing and twists of a thriller with the compelling...
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The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America's First Serial KillerWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Carr P. Collins Award A New York Times BestsellerOne of Book Riot Best Book of the YearIn nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized the city in what would soon become a story more shocking than any...
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The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the"Jeff Pearlman has captured the swagger of the '86 Mets. You don't have to be a Mets fan to enjoy this book--it's a great read for all baseball enthusiasts."--Philadelphia Daily NewsAward-winning Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a...
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April 1865: The Month That Saved AmericaOne month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by chaos...
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Florida Girls, A Novel: Book One of The Queenpin ChroniclesA war bond tour full of eager young women. A sunny town with a dark underbelly. When the Florida Girls start shooting back, will anyone survive?St. Petersburg, Florida, 1944. Thelma Miles can't stomach injustice. Broke and orphaned near the close of WWII, the 18-year-old...
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A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland"A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable" (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland--one of America's most unusual presidents and the only one to serve two non-consecutive terms. "Entertaining and astute" (Booklist), A Man of Iron explores the remarkable life and extraordinary career of Grover Cleveland--the honest,...
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The GroupWritten with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars. "Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant."--CosmopolitanAward-winning Mary McCarthy's most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight...
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Kent State: Four Dead in OhioFrom Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex Award-winning tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form. Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Times, Forbes, Publishers...
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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed AmericaFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign--ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America. It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager,...
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To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (an Inspiration for Downton Abbey)"Marvelous and entertaining." --Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO's The Gilded Age, the heiresses--including a Vanderbilt (railroads), a LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), and a Rogers (oil)--who staked their ground in England, swapping dollars for...
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United StatesThe Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws--its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the outsized influence of the Supreme Court--Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School and one...
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Madison's MissionMadison's MissionA Boldt Castle storyBy Susan G MathisStep into the captivating world of Boldt Castle in 1903, where dreams are forged in the fires of adversity and love.Madison Murray, the devoted maid to the legendary Louise Boldt, harbors a singular mission-to care for her...
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The Bronze HorsemanUSA Today BestsellerCalled "a Russian Thorn Birds," The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons is a sweeping saga of love and war that has been a monumental bestseller all over the world. The acclaimed author of Tully, Simons has written a stirring tale of devotion,...
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Silver Echoes"A twisty, atmospheric story about the damage inflicted by childhood trauma and its manifestations later. Immersed in Silver's world as she performs daring high-wire feats, trains tigers, and debuts as a silver-screen starlet, danger is ever-present. Years later, her mother tries to find out...
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Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest GeniusesPublishers Weekly Best Summer Reads Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. "As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is...
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The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to FreedomA graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American. Recently returned to the...
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The House of MediciIt was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici, patrons of...
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the HolocaustThe "remarkable...inspiring" (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to...
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Mine Were of Trouble: A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil WarThe Spanish Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Española). Escalating violence between left- and right-wing political factions boils over. Military officers stage a coup against a democratically elected, Soviet-backed, government. The country is thrown into chaos as centuries-old tensions return to the forefront. Hundreds of...
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Essays of E. B. White"Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." --...
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