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Changing Times at HarpersThe BRAND NEW instalment in the bestselling Harpers Emporium series!London Spring 1920Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sally Harper the problems continue.Husband Ben is moody, sometimes distant, and she feels he is shutting her out...
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The Officer's Wife1939 - American heiress Vivi Miles falls for naval officer Nathan as soon as she arrives in England. And, under the threat of war, they marry in a whirlwind before he leaves to join his ship.When Nathan returns from Dunkirk injured, he is distant,...
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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War IIFrom John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters,...
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Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American PowerThis book, written by a scholar of international relations, argues that American leadership is likely to continue well into the 21st century, but that the nature of our power has changed.Author: Joseph S. NyePublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 08/06/1991Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.14h x 6.06w...
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Unsinkable: The Full Story of the RMS TitanicJust before midnight on April 14, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg. Less than three hours later, she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, having taken with her more than 1,500 of the roughly 2,200 people on board. Even now,...
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The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf HurricaneIn this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC's Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history--a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today's new age of extreme weather.On...
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The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin WallA riveting, eyewitness account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War from the Newsweek Bureau Chief in that region at the time. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was...
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Black AbolitionistsWhile much is known about the white men and women who were involved in the anti-slavery movement, the black abolitionists have been largely ignored. This book, written by one of America's leading black historians, sets the record straight. As Benjamin Quarles shows, blacks were...
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Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of WrathFew books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California -- the Joads' newfound home -- the book...
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Henry Clay: America's Greatest StatesmanIn a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, author Harlow Giles Unger tells how a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open the doors of Congress during the nation's formative years and prevented dissolution of the infant American republic. The only freshman congressman...
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Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last YearShortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial ruin.As Grant continued his work,...
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Celebrity Secrets: Official Government Files on the Rich and FamousSEXUAL DEVIANTS, NAZI SPIES, DANGEROUS LONERS, COMMUNISTS, DRUG ADDICTS, TRAITORS, AND MOBSTERS. THIS IS HOLLYWOOD. DECLASSIFIED. It's tough being rich and famous -- stalked, photographed, hounded, and dissected. But obsessive celebrity watching has a lurid history that began long before tabloid shutterbugs took their...
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the riches of the eastWhile European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international...
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco UnderworldThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ... the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large...
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955Here is a continuation of selections from Flanner's celebrated "Letter from Paris," a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature " Genêt." With clarity and authority, Flanner writes about the arts, the politics, and the economy of...
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Monte Cassino: The Story of the Most Controversial Battle of World War IIMonte Cassino opens in the cold Italian winter of 1943-44. Germany would lose the war, but they still held much of Italy, leaving the Allies to fight their way north to capture Rome-a route no army had taken since Hannibal traversed the Alps to...
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Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time ForgotJohn Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific record: 1,776 miles surveyed of uncharted territory; 6,555 miles hiked on snowshoes; and 6,700 miles navigated in small boats. Yet, he was denied...
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Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc-the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across EuropeAn epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in EuropeIt is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is...
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Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into WarFranklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." History would prove him correct; the events of that day--when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor--ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into World...
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City on a Grid: How New York Became New YorkWinner of the 2015 New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate ManhattanYou either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story.Praise for City on a Grid"The...
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