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Battle Stations: How the USS Yorktown Helped Turn the Tide at Coral Sea and MidwayThe true story of the valiant men who gave their all to save the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown--and changed the course of the Pacific War. On June 4, 1942--six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor--Yorktown's crew began the carrier's final battle against Japan's...
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion"Lincoln believed that 'with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.' Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln's leadership by showing us how deftly he managed his relations with the press of his day to move public...
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Beginning Again RevisedThe author's account of the events of World War I and also a description of the origin of the Bloomsbury Group, the founding of the Hogarth Press, and the author's marriage to Virginia Stephen. "To write this masterly account is a severe test of...
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Chesty Puller: A Marine Legend in World War IIFor Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the dramatic tale of Marine Corps legend Chesty Puller, focusing on his combat service during the Pacific War. Chesty Puller is an American legend. He began his career fighting guerrillas in Haiti and Nicaragua during the 1920s...
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Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the NazisIn 1945, when the Red Army liberated Berlin, they found in the Nazi capital a functioning Jewish hospital. In Refuge in Hell, Daniel B. Silver explores the many quirks of fortune and history that made the hospital's survival possible. His engrossing account of this...
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House of Honor: The Heist of Caravaggio's NativityTwo Italian sons, linked by a masterpiece painting, are put to a test of loyalty and honor. At the heart of this gripping tale is Orazio Bordoni, the wayward son of a construction magnate, living a reckless life like that of his artistic hero...
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Elmer McCurdy: The Life and Afterlife of an American OutlawBorn 1880. Died 1911. Buried 1977. These are the misadventures of America's most fascinating dead outlaw. When Elmer McCurdy was shot dead by an Oklahoma sheriff and his posse after a short spree of bungled robberies, he was not laid to rest. Leaning in...
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The Brazen Bride"Fabulously entertaining....Laurens adds a dash of exotic spice to her always reliable mix of sexy romance and risky intrigue."--Booklist The third book in New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens's sensational Black Cobra Quartet, The Brazen Bride ingeniously blends intrigue and danger with sizzling,...
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A People's History of the United StatesTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book--a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." -Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States...
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House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American PowerFrom the National Book Award-winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast--often hidden--impact on America. This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it,...
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El Palacio Secreto (the Hidden Palace - Spanish Edition)1923. Entre los antiguos muros de color miel de la diminuta isla de Malta, gente extraña se desliza entre las sombras y cualquiera puede comprar un nuevo nombre. Rosalie Delacroix huye de París para trabajar como bailarina en los clubes bohemios de sus sinuosas...
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Wings Over GermanyWings Over Germany covers one of the most dramatic periods in recent history, the first part of WWII when the Germany suddenly invades Poland, then Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Low Countries, and France. The speed of the advance shocks the British. By the summer...
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Fast Girls LPONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY POPSUGAR, FROLIC, PARADE, TRAVEL & LEISURE, SHE KNOWS, and SHE READS NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF 2020 (SO FAR). "Fast Girls is a compelling, thrilling look at what it takes to be...
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The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on PowerFrom one of America's foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a family that enjoyed public adulation but provided fluctuating leadership, that experienced both unparalleled fame...
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Inside Out: A Memoir of the BlacklistDuring World War II, Walter Bernstein was a correspondent for the U.S. Army magazine Yank; after the war, he joined the Communist Party. When Senator Joseph McCarthy began his notorious witch hunt for Communists in the late 1940s, Bernstein -- a writer for film...
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Belvidere: A Plantation Memory"Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach," begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located in between Santee River and Eutaw Creek near present day Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, Belvidere plantation once produced Santee...
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The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of FameA hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted -- because the...
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The Elephant in the Temple: Tales of Beast and Man in IndiaFrom military camels and hunting cheetahs, to herding dogs and talking mynahs, animals have been living, working, playing and performing with humans in India for centuries. In this intimate book, John Lockwood Kipling writes about animals in daily Indian life, bringing alive the sights,...
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An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South Carolina Low Country Receipts and Remedies of Emily Wharton SinklerAt the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton plantation in an isolated area in the South Carolina Lowcountry. In monthly letters to her northern family, she recorded keen observations about...
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Alger Hiss: Why He Chose TreasonA former U.S. Intelligence analyst shines a fresh light on accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss, providing "a solid look at the specifics of the case as well as a useful overview of the ideological debate gripping America" (Kirkus Reviews). Author: Christina SheltonPublisher: Threshold EdPublished:...
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