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The Shock of the Light"A wonderfully conceived and remarkably assured first novel, rich in emotion and with a truly compelling narrative drive. A brilliant success." --William Boyd, bestselling author of Any Human Heart For readers of The Nightingale, In Memoriam, and The Postcard, a sweeping novel of siblings,...
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The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the WorldA compelling dual biography of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the 20th century. Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown together by war. They incarnated the resistance of Britain and France...
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The House of Hidden Letters"A joy from start to finish."--Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient A beautiful and escapist novel full of heart, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and readers who love book club fiction. For sale: Greek cottage. One euro. Skye...
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The Dangerous Shore: How a Motley Crew of Scientists, Mobsters, Double Agents, Retirees, Volunteer Pilots (and a Boy Scout) Stopped the Invasion of AmSara Vladic, New York Times bestselling author of Indianapolis, reveals the gripping, untold history of the United States under attack during World War II and the improbable patriots who stepped up to defend their country in her hour of need.History books have told us,...
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The Sisters of Book RowFrom bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a gripping and timely historical novel of books, banning, and the women who helped save New York's famed Book Row. 1915: Manhattan's Book Row, an eclectic jumble of forty bookshops along Fourth Avenue, is the mecca for rare...
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El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and MemoryFrom New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town. El Paso has been called the "Ellis Island" of America's southern border, a mountain pass cum border...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Revolutionary LifeThe definitive biography of American suffragist and women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from a preeminent historian of women's suffrage "The life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton still has much to teach us. The invented prisons of race, sex, and class are still with us,...
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Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in TombstoneA True West Magazine Best Book and Best Author of the Year A colorful and groundbreaking account of the most storied friendship of the American West: the bond between Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday: Legendary gunfighters and friends who...
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We Paved the Way: Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' CampaignIn the spring of 1969, hundreds of workers, all Black and mostly female, went on strike at Medical College Hospital and Charleston County Hospital to protest racial discrimination, low wages, and the marginalization of their dignity. The movement began with an incident of wrongful...
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The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest EnemyA LitHub and Parade Most Anticipated Book of the Year For fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it On August 20, 1940,...
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American MIG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF "Red Eagles" MIG SquadronAfter being outflown over Vietnam, the US launched a top secret operation to acquire Soviet aircraft, train pilots to fly them, and pitch them against American planes in training scenarios. Get inside the head of one of America's most experienced MiG pilots, Lt Col...
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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945"To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way . . ." --Dutch resister Herman FriedhoffIn every country that fell to the Third Reich during the Second World War, from France in the...
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The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945'This accessible history will keep the subject alive for a new generation [..] It is about providing an accessible, sober and vivid resource that keeps the subject alive. In this aim, the book succeeds admirably.' - The Times 'A work of acute solemnity that...
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The Angry Tide: A Novel of Cornwall, 1798-1799The Angry Tide is the seventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, the major TV series from Masterpiece on PBS.Cornwall, towards the end of the 18th century. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliament - his time divided...
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The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970sSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE - An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom In the 1970s, an unprecedented wave of international terrorism broke out...
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Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He BuiltThe story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making "A stunning achievement . . . a sweeping intellectual history with a...
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The Loving Cup: A Novel of Cornwall, 1813-1815The Loving Cup, the tenth book in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS.Cornwall 1813 A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription Amor...
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn BridgeA monumental tale of American ambition, told by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master historian David McCullough. This gripping saga of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the country's boldest engineering achievements, reveals not only the politics and personalities behind "America's Eiffel Tower,"...
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Intrepid Women: Adventures in AnthropologyTrue accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th century. The extraordinary women featured in Intrepid Women defied early twentieth-century conventions to carry out groundbreaking field research in distant parts of the world where ladies were not meant to travel....
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Atlas of World War II: History's Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New CartographyThis definitive, lavishly illustrated book from National Geographic features an astonishing array of vintage and newly created maps, rare photographs, covert documents, and eyewitness accounts that illuminate the world's greatest conflict. This magnificent atlas delves into the cartographic history of WWII: naval, land, and...
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