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Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied FranceHiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller, a young Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation.Author: Sarah Lew Miller, Joyce B. LazarusPublisher:...
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Code Name ButterflyInspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker in the French Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching, unforgettable tale of the strength of the human spirit in the darkest days of World War II. In the City of Light, one woman will stand against...
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Wartime Wishes at Bletchley Park'The characters are multi-faceted, the settings are described with a depth that makes you feel you are there, and the storyline sweeps you along to the very end' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The third heartwarming novel in the inspiring Bletchley Park Girls series from bestselling...
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The Belfair PinchIN YUGOSLAVIA OF JANUARY 1942 a civil war rages; factions of royalists, communists, and fascists are either fighting or collaborating with each other. To the Allies fighting the wider World War this fractured country is an unknown cipher. Captain Reginald Wallace of the British...
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The Boy with the Star TattooFrom acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphans--to the 1969 daring escape of the Israeli boats of Cherbourg.1942:...
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Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform. Losing Ground argues that the ambitious social programs of the1960s and 1970s actually made matters worse for its supposed beneficiaries, the poor and minorities. Charles Murray startled readers by...
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Gangsterland: A Tour Through the Dark Heart of Jazz-Age New York CityA site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan--where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night.Welcome to the kaleidoscopic netherworld of Jazz Age Manhattan....
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Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to AmericaA compelling nonfiction graphic novel, set on the stage of World War II, Whistleblowers is the true story of 4 courageous individuals who risked their careers--or their lives--to confront the unfolding Holocaust. Who were the whistleblowers? Alan Cranston--a young journalist and future U.S. senator...
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Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy EddieA biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all time Back in the fall of...
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Love You AlwaysAuthor: Amanda StogsdillPublisher: Aj Creative Writing Coach & Editor LLCPublished: 08/29/2023Pages: 222Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47dISBN: 9781088245088
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The Village IdiotA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 "A frothy picaresque that ... vibrates to the "sweet celestial confusion" of Soutine's painting: delirious and earthy, reverent and irreligious." -- The New York Times Book Review A wild, effervescent, absinthe-soaked novel that tells of the life...
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The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm, with a Foreword by Willie NelsonWith a new foreword by Willie Nelson "An exquisitely written American saga." --Sarah Smarsh The "remarkably well told and heartfelt" (John Grisham) story of a young lawyer's impossible legal battle to stop the federal government from foreclosing on thousands of family farmers. In the...
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The ExcitementsA brilliant and witty drama about two brave female World War II veterans who survived the unthinkable without ever losing their killer instinct...or their joie de vivre.Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their late nineties, Josephine and...
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The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop MusicBeloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"--a space in which he has been...
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This CupIn late 1938, two girls flee from their university in Paris after learning of an SS plot to murder them in an attempt to seize the most powerful ancient relic of all: The Holy Grail. With Gestapo spies setting them on the run, the...
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A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring True Story of Surviving the HolocaustThe powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter--a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal.As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find...
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Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a GenerationA leading music journalist's riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended generations. Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they...
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The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the NazisWas Pope Pius XII secretly in league with Adolf Hitler? No, says Rabbi David G. Dalin, but there was a cleric in league with Hitler: the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini. As Pope Pius XII worked to save Jews from the Nazis,...
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Harding: The Jazz Age President"Presidents are ranked wrong. In Harding: The Jazz Age President, Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up--and supplies the evidence to make that case strong. -Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of Coolidge He's the butt of political jokes, frequently subjected to...
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The Prisoner's Daughter: A WWII Story1943In the throes of WWII, German soldier Johannes Gertner, is captured in Egypt and sent to Camp 23 -- a POW camp in the wilds of Canada's boreal forest. Far from Rommel's Afrika Korps, Johannes forms an unlikely friendship with an anti-Nazi philosopher and...
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