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Baikonur Man: Space, Science, American Ambition, and Russian Chaos at the Cold War's EndAgainst the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the US space shuttle...
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Against Their WillThis award-winning series led to an apology from the North Carolina governor and the first legislation in the nation seeking to compensate victims of eugenics, or involuntary sterilization. For more than 40 years North Carolina ran one of the nation's largest and most aggressive...
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Titanic: Why She Collided, Why She Sank, Why She Should Never Have SailedSenan Molony caused a worldwide media flurry in 2017 by revealing publicly that there was an uncontrolled coal bunker fire aboard Titanic. Experts held the fire would have significantly weakened a forward bulkhead, the failure of which hastened the sinking. Indeed, a shipyard worker...
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Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DCWashington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical temples, a pulsing hub of political power and prowess. But for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen. Before America became a world power in the...
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Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2016)Aces Back to Back is the most comprehensive, fun, fact-filled and up-to-date history of the Grateful Dead ever written - now updated through August, 2016 From the band's inception, through the death of Jerry Garcia, and on to their incarnations as the Other Ones,...
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Outlaw Tales of the Old West: Fifty True Stories of Desperados, Crooks, Criminals, and BanditsThis collection of fifty outlaw tales includes well-knowns such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Frank and Jesse James, Belle Starr (and her dad), and Pancho Villa, along with a fair smattering of women, organized crime bosses, smugglers, and of course the usual...
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Suncoast Empire: Bertha Honore Palmer, Her Family, and the Rise of Sarasota, 1910-1982Silver Medal Florida Book Awards NonfictionIn the early 20th century, Bertha Palmer was one of the best-known and wealthiest women in America. She was an art collector, women's rights advocate, businesswoman, owner of Chicago's Palmer House Hotel, and had elegant homes in Chicago, Paris,...
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Life of Billy DixonLife of Billy Dixon is a compelling narrative of the "wild, free life" on the Great Plains frontier. Ride with Billy Dixon to a high point on the plains and look out over a nearly solid mass of buffalo that stretches in every direction...
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Wild West Women: Fifty Lives That Shaped the FrontierWild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the...
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The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship ArcticThe 1854 collision at sea between the American ship Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history. David W. Shaw has based this fascinating account on the firsthand testimony of the...
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Revolutionary Incidents: Sketches of Character, Chiefly in the Old North StateIn 1854, and again in 1856, Rev. Eli Washington Caruthers published a compilation of stories, gathered over the course of many years, that spotlighted the bravery, sacrifices and viciousness that were a part of life for North Carolinians during the Revolutionary War. From the...
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Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk HeroToday's baseball catcher stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance back of the batter without protective gear....
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Explorers of the Nile Lib/E: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian AdventureAuthor: Tim JealPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 12/26/2011Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200085651About the AuthorJeal, Tim: - Tim Jeal is the author of the acclaimed biographies Livingstone, Baden-Powell, and Stanley, each selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post....
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Nothing to Fear Lib/E: Fdr's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern AmericaAuthor: Adam CohenPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 01/22/2009Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200126125About the AuthorCohen, Adam: - Adam Cohen is assistant editorial page editor of the New York Times, where he has been a member of the editorial board since 2002. He was previously a senior writer at...
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Lincoln in the Black Hawk WarA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsLincoln in the Black Hawk War by Alfred Augustus Jackson. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume XIV edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is 'read...
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our TimesThe Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."--Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its...
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's NarrativeFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and a finalist for the LA Times PrizeA groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with...
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Nothing VastA sweeping multigenerational tale complicates traditional narratives as it follows two families--one Moroccan, one Polish--filled with Zionists, anti-Zionists, socialists, and reactionaries. Spanning from 1932 to 1973, Nothing Vast delves deeply into the circumstances and concerns of Jews in cities across the globe--in Poland, France,...
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The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton GangThe definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of one of the greatest outlaw gangs. The dreaded Dalton...
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The Shopkeeper's FamilyCultural upheaval was nothing new to the Mueller family. Although Herman's ancestors left the Rhineland to seek a more prosperous life as early as 1783, Herman and Johanna Mueller could never have guessed that in 1939 they would be forced to move, leaving behind...
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