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A Talent to Deceive: The Search for the Real Killer of the Lindbergh BabyNo one is innocent when a mystery is unsolved. Charles Lindbergh was known for many things during his lifetime. He was a famous aviator, the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean, winner of the Orteig Prize, and a young American hero....
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We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a MovementAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office - and to global political stardom - has been building for 30 years. We've Got People is the story of that movement, which first exploded into public...
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Mania: The Story of the Outraged & Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural RevolutionBy the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his...
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Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun and the Petticoat AffairBeautiful and vivacious Margaret "Peggy" O'Neil Timberlake had been widowed only four months in 1829 when she married newly elected President Andrew Jackson's best friend and Secretary of War John Eaton. Horrified by rumors about her dubious reputation, the ladies of Washington, including the...
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Drive-Ins of Route 66, Expanded Second EditionA tour of the fun, quirky, bite-sized stories of the 116 drive-in theaters that showed movies near US 66. Packed with dozens of historic and modern photos. The perfect gift for any ozoner enthusiast or Mother Road fan.Author: Michael KilgorePublisher: Neon JukeboxPublished: 02/28/2022Pages: 288Binding...
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Nos Quieren Muertos / They Want Us DeadPor el autor de Pasión india, El imperio eres tú o A flor de piel, entre otros. En 2014, tras liderar las mayores manifestaciones de protesta en la historia de Venezuela contra el régimen de Nicolas Maduro, el joven político Leopoldo López se vio...
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Fighting Shirley ChisholmShirley Chisholm's dynamism, intellect, and devotion led her to become the first Black congresswoman and the first Black woman to run for the presidential nomination. In this carefully woven story, James Haskins tells Shirley Chisholm's story from childhood to her phenomenally positive impact for...
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Psychological DNA: A Cold Case Analysis of Who Killed Robert F. KennedyIt has been more than fifty years since presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, RFK, was murdered at the fashionable Ambassador Hotel in L.A. only five years after his brother John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. The alleged shooter who gunned down RFK, the...
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What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today. Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive...
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Twentieth Century Baltimore: A Native Son's Casual History of the City on the PatapscoAuthor: Jack BurkertPublisher: BookbabyPublished: 08/05/2024Pages: 230Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9798350959741
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The Manchurian Journalist: Lawrence Wright, the Cia, and the Corruption of American JournalismThe Manchurian Journalist documents for readers that their concerns about American journalism are justified. It shows that as the watchdog of democracy journalism has, since the Cold War, been compromised by influences unseen and unheard by the public in deciding what people read, hear...
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El Vi?edo de la Luna / Moon VineyardUna familia asediada por la ocupación nazi Una exiliada española tras el tesoro vinícola más preciado del mundo Un triángulo amoroso marcado por el deber, la fidelidad y la pasión Tras su precipitado matrimonio con Octave de Fonneuve, Aldara, refugiada de la Guerra Civil,...
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The Path Beneath Her Feet"Meticulously researched and beautifully written. The story of a life well lived." -KATHLEEN GRISSOM, NY Times Bestselling author of The Kitchen HouseSteeped in rich historical detail, Dr. Eliza Edwards, the ing?nue student in The Unlocked Path, becomes the mature mentor, steadfast in her calling...
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H.L. Mencken: An Acidic AnthologyH.L. Mencken was America's most prominent iconoclastic journalist of the first half of the 20th century, and he still has a considerable following. Mencken's writings have been in print continuously for over 100 years, including a collection published in the 1950s that's still in...
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Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930-1949In her own words and with her own beautiful paintings and drawings, artist Toby Knobel Fluek (1926-2011) lovingly unfurls a unique view of Jewish life. She introduces us to her village, to her family, to the people among whom they lived; she shows us...
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One of Four: World War One Through the Eyes of an Unknown SoldierFrom New York Harbor to the battlefields of France, relive World War One through the eyes of an unknown soldier, as told through his diary. See how the 100-year-old diary brings a father and his estranged son back together by retracing his experiences fighting...
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Balzac's Paris: The City as Human ComedyExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France's most famous novelist and observer In Balzac's vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is...
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They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became ChicagoExamining the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested and incarcerated for killing her lover, Harry Kalsted. Six weeks later, a jury acquitted her of murder. Inspired by the sordid event, trial, and acquittal, Maurine Watkins, a reporter...
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Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking MeterEducator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster, Carl Magee helped shape New Mexico and Oklahoma in the years after gaining statehood, garnering fame along the way. Jack McElroy's fascinating biography of "Citizen Carl" tells the story of a man whose exploits were as...
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A People's History of Sfo: The Making of the Bay Area and an AirportAn illuminating profile of the San Francisco Bay Area, and its regional and global influence, as seen from the focal point of San Francisco International Airport (SFO). A People's History of SFO uses the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to tell a...
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