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A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under FireIn A Blacklist Education, a mysterious file of family papers triggers a journey through the dark days of political purges in the 1950s. Jane S. Smith tells the story of the anticommunist witch hunt that sent shockwaves through New York City's public schools as...
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Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the BraveFor 130 years historians and military strategists have been obsessed by the battle of Chancellorsville. It began with an audaciously planned stroke by Union general Joe Hooker as he sent his army across the Rappahannock River and around Robert E. Lee's lines. It ended...
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Traitors Among UsAs director of the elite Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, author Stuart Herrington was the U.S. Army's top counterintelligence officer. In this thrilling and informative account he details one of the most damaging and delicate cases of espionage ever committed against the United States. Between 1972...
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The SarvànMidsommer meets All Quiet on the Western Front in this masterful blend of mystery, adventure, and folk-horror.In the midst of the First World War, a handful of allied POWs escape the torments of Germany's most brutal internment camp only to find themselves stranded deep...
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The Last Rose of Auschwitz: A Gripping and Heartbreaking World War 2 Historical Novel Inspired by a True StoryJurek never believed love was possible in a brutal place like Auschwitz.1940. Jurek, a young Polish idealist, was only nineteen when he was imprisoned at Auschwitz for trying to join the Polish resistance. But years of imprisonment have shaped him into a survivor, a...
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The Keeper of Lost Daughters: A WWII Historical Fiction NovelThe moment Lidia laid eyes on the abandoned baby on her doorstep, she knew she would risk everything to protect her forever.1941, Krakow. Lidia Sobieska hears a knock on the door and is shocked to find a baby in a basket on her doorstep....
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Scythe and PenDemetrius Raske strikes a deal with the Devil to stop a monster stalking the city, but he may have unleashed another villain entirely...The Capital of the United League of Nations glitters like jewels on a dame's neck-a city of wicked splendor and possibility. The...
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The Sower of Black Field: Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi GermanyGOLD MEDAL for Religious Fiction-2024 Readers' Favorite AwardsCATEGORY WINNER for Religious Fiction-2024 American Writing Awards"A compelling exploration of faith and resistance in the face of oppression." -Kirkus ReviewsThroughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of...
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Chicken Bridge RoadPauline only wanted love and happiness in her marriage. Instead, she and her six, soon to be seven, children suffered abuse. The choice she's about to make may free them from death-but will it cost her everything else?In the rural South in the mid-twentieth...
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Survival in AuschwitzSurvival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before...
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Martin Van Buren and the American Political SystemAuthor: Donald B. ColePublisher: Eastern NationalPublished: 06/25/2004Pages: 492Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 8.88h x 6.34w x 1.23dISBN: 9781590910290This title is not returnable
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The Spoon StealerBorn into a basket of clean sheets--ruining a perfectly good load of laundry--Emmeline never quite fit in on her family's rural Nova Scotian farm. After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief, toxicity, and mental illness...
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Operation Ivy Bells: A Mac McDowell MissionSaturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Mac McDowell faces his greatest challenge yet, leading the team into a critical Cold War mission. With a security clearance above Top Secret, Mac and his off-the-books deep-water espionage group must gather Russian intel to avert world war. Join...
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The Spanish Civil War"Mr. Thomas has understood [the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject."--Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book Review A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil...
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914An Economist Best Book of the Year "Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating."--Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street JournalFrom the bestselling author of...
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to IraqStephen Kinzer's Overthrow provides a fast-paced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments -- not always to its own benefit "Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but...
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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old ManOne of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this "original and highly readable account of a splendid American life" (The Wall Street Journal). When a veteran Washington...
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Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical TheoryThe untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history A New Yorker "Best Book of 2024" Selection "Well-written--and well-translated."--Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European...
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America"Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling." --Los Angeles Times "Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics." --Jon Meacham "Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has...
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZEOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of...
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