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When Heroes Flew: The Shangri-La RaidersInspired by the true story of Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Japan in 1942, The Shangri-La Raiders is the next stunning installment of the When Heroes Flew WWII historical fiction series."Well-researched and well-told." --Mark Sullivan, USA Today bestselling author of The Last Green Valley...
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The Girl Who Tried to Change HistoryWhen a mysterious stranger sat down beside her on a park bench one day in the spring of 2009, Vivienne Riley was thinking only of completing her PhD dissertation in history. Soon, however, she finds herself being recruited into a top-secret experimental program designed...
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Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of InfamyStranded in the Sky offers a rare fresh look at Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor-a historical event that many may think they have heard everything about. Philip Jett shows readers that there was so much more going on in that pivotal moment in...
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The Big Jump: Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air RaceThe trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a heroThe race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the...
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When Heroes Flew: The Roof of the WorldA legendary WWII airlift mission cuts through the snaggletoothed Himalaya Mountains, where both the terrain and weather prove uncommonly savage. And American airmen leave a trail of blood and mangled aircraft across northern Burma."I would rather fly a fighter against the Japs three times...
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Down a Dark RoadDown a Dark Road transports readers to the shadowy forests of WWII Austria, where a weary and battle-worn Army platoon is about to discover the war's darkest secret... "...a gut punch of a novel. A tale of war's end, when the bill comes due...
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The Bathtub Full of Holes"Plane crashed, pilot dead. One broken leg and a bloody head. Summer moved out, winter moved in; Hope of rescue seems fairly thin." It is October 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War. One airplane is scheduled to go to...
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All My Love, From the TrenchesAll My Love, From the Trenches written by Reilly Vore follows two families, the Perrys and the Harlows, as they face the beginning of World War I. Samuel Perry must find his place in a changing society while Lillian and James Harlow wrestle with...
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Operation MoonlightWARTIME FRANCE, 1944 Trust absolutely no one. This is the only advice newly recruited SOE agent Elisabeth Shepherd is given when faced with the impossible. Her mission: to enter Nazi-occupied France and monitor the Germans' deadly long-range missiles. GUILDFORD, 2018 Betty is celebrating her...
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Supper with the Crippens: The True Story of One of the Most Notorious Murderers of All TimeAuthor: David James SmithPublisher: George Weidenfeld & NicholsonPublished: 07/19/2022Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.72h x 5.12w x 1.10dISBN: 9781398705593
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Growing Up Getty: The Story of America's Most Unconventional DynastyAn enthralling and comprehensive look into the contemporary state of one of the wealthiest--and most misunderstood--family dynasties in the world, perfect for fans of Succession and House of Gucci. The Gettys are one of the wealthiest--and most misunderstood--family dynasties. Oil magnate J. Paul Getty,...
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Slue Foot: A Black Girl Grows Up in Midwest AmericaMargaret was always a leader, despite being a girl, Black, and poor. One of 15 children, she learned resilience as a youngster. When her family moves to a small city in Southern Illinois, Margaret soon feels the sting of racial discrimination, unwanted sexual advances,...
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The Prison Guard's DaughterOn the 50th anniversary of America's deadliest prison riot comes a prison-guard daughter's quest to uncover the truth about her father's murder during the uprising―a story of crossing racial divides, befriending inmates and correctional officers alike, and challenging the state to reveal and pay...
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago SevenMichael Moore mocks George Bush and Al Franken ridicules Rush Limbaugh, but the mixing of play and politics today is polite and respectful compared to the carnival of contempt known as the Chicago Eight trial. Opening at the end of 1969, the trial brought...
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Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it gives of Philby's strange half-life in Beirut, where he was banished in 1956' Guardian Love & Deception is the extraordinary story of how...
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The Great Crash: How the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Plunged the World Into DepressionThis is the story of the financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, and set in motion a series of economic, political and social events that affected many millions of people in America, Britain, Europe and Australia. The...
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Frogpond: A Farmboy's Upper Peninsula MemoirsA Farmboy's Upper Peninsula Memoirs: Thirty days after the Great War ended, Clifton Nixon was born. It was a time of migration as people were taking advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862. An amalgamation of Protestant and Catholics-Irish, Scotch, French, Polish, and Italian-crossed...
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140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon"Deeply researched and carefully nuanced . . . Barrett shrewdly integrates essential military realities with the potent domestic cross currents affecting leaders on both sides of the Pacific." --Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall Here are the secret strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations,...
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Peace and Democracy Around the WorldNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbán, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of strongman leaders around the world. The first truly global...
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The Library BookSusan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved instiAuthor: Susan OrleanPublisher: Simon & SchusterPublished:...
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