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Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, AlaskaIn this history of life in an isolated ghost town, bestselling Alaska author Tom Kizzia unfolds a deeply American saga of renunciation and renewal. The spirit of Alaska in the old days-impetuous, free-wheeling, and bounty-blessed-lived on in the never-quite-abandoned mining town of McCarthy. While...
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The Ghost of Vimy RidgeA novel inspired by a true story. Thomas "Tommy" Holmes was a proud Canadian yearning for adventure outside of his hometown, Owen Sound. Influenced by his brother and father, Tommy lies about his age to enlist in the global conflict that ravaged Europe on...
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Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred DodgeThese are the remarkable memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938), Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases--stage robberies, train holdups, long pursuits through the badlands, even suits against Wells...
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Doc Holliday: A Family PortraitJohn H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday's early...
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The Little Bach Book: An eclectic Omnibus of Notable Details about the Life and Times of the esteemed and highly respected Johann Sebastian BachA richly illustrated description of daily life in Leipzig, Germany in the 1730s, this is the only book about J.S. Bach that presents colorful vignettes of his career within a detailed context of the even more colorful everyday world around him. Written by a...
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Just WillaJust Willa is a family chronicle of rare beauty-more than reminiscent of Willa Cather in capturing the regional flavors of America-stretching over a span of decades through an intimate focus on the life of one woman. In it, Helen Sheehy gives us a character...
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Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American WestEven among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures...
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We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a CowpuncherE. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a...
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Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance"Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience." --Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn essential account of America's most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays out in our own time. In 1945, it was not inevitable that a global superpower emerging victorious...
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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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Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating JohnsonThe movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain men, one...
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Sammy: Child Survivor of the Holocaust"In sharing your personal testimony as survivor of the Holocaust you have granted future generations the opportunity to experience a personal connection with history. Thanks you for your invaluable contribution, your strength and your generosity of Spirit" -Steven Spielberg, Director of Shindler's List. "Sammy...
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The Wartime Affair: A powerful and unforgettable historical WW2 romance of courage and perseveranceIn the aftermath of war, one woman's courage is truly tested.Germany, 1945. Elsa Kalbach was raised to be the perfect daughter. But as her world collapses from years of war, she is forced to confront the cost of the lies she was taught to...
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The Hardest, Longest Race: Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed AmericaFrom Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eric Moskowitz comes the riveting story of the first true coast-to-coast automobile race in U.S. history, a fast-paced tale of the gritty and determined drivers who braved hostile terrain, mechanical failure, and, shockingly, sabotage, to take home the gold. In...
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An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd LincolnA revelatory new biography of one of the most misunderstood and vilified First Ladies in American history: Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary Lincoln was at the center of politics at a time when society's expectations for women were rigid and circumscribed. The product of Southern...
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A Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas JeffersonA revelatory new look at the long and complex relationship between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same historic day--July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. In creating the Declaration of Independence,...
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The Cross of IronCROSS OF IRON is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. A resourceful and cynical commander somehow manages to coax his men through the bitter hand-to-hand fighting in forests, trenches...
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Beneath the Lightless Sky: Surviving the Holocaust in the Sewers of LvovIgnacy Chiger (1906-1975) recounts his family's desperate struggle to evade Nazi persecution in wartime Lvov, Poland, where they hid in the city's underground sewers with the help of an unlikely hero. This gripping firsthand account provides a raw, unfiltered perspective on life under two...
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Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery SolvedThe basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America. When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his...
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The Wonderful World of Oz: The Wizard of Oz; The Emerald City of Oz; Glinda of OzThis fully annotated volume collects three of Baum's fourteen Oz novels in which he developed his utopian vision and which garnered an immense and loyal following. The Wizard of Oz (1900) introduces Dorothy, who arrives from Kansas and meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman,...
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