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The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to PowerThe deeply reported exploration of Joe Biden as told through his extended family, now in paperback. Coming off of the 2020 election, THE BIDENS tells the Biden Family story in full, from the secrets lurking in the deep recesses of Joe's family tree to...
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This Country: My Life in Politics and HistoryA "quintessentially American" (Policy Magazine) memoir of politics and history from Chris Matthews, New York Times bestselling author and long-time host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. In This Country, Chris Matthews "has written a love letter to his country" (Joy Reid, host of...
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil GeniusOn the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act taking effect comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system and helped inspire The Great Gatsby. "[Batchelor] makes this flashy bootlegger sound like a folk hero...Behold the king." --New York Times...
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High Tension: Fdr's Battle to Power AmericaThe story behind one of the greatest peacetime achievements in US history and a model for today's ongoing government fight with big tech―Franklin Delano Roosevelt's crusade to electrify the entire nation. Ranging from the highest halls of power to the remote corners of rural...
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Gouldtown, A Very Remarkable Settlement of Ancient DateThis exceptional history profiles Gouldtown, a settlement which in many ways typified small-town life in the New England of long ago.The historic settlement of Gouldtown, New Jersey carries a notable role in US history, with several distinguished persons born within its bounds. Although small,...
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An Old River Town: Being a History of Winterport, (Old Frankfort), Maine, Illustrated From PhotographsThis history of Frankfort, Maine and its surrounding areas is detailed and encompassing, beginning from the earliest colonial times and concluding in the early 20th century.Ada Littlefield's enquiry covers a great range of activity. Topics include the initial founding of Frankfort, the importance in...
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Triumphant Plutocracy: A History of the Gilded Age; the Government and Economics of the United States, 1870-1920 - a Senator's AutobiographyRichard Pettigrew was a United States Senator during the Gilded Age; a time when the captains of industry gained unprecedented power. His recollections of public service span decades.Running on an anti-corruption platform and representing South Dakota, Pettigrew was appalled as the wealthy owners of...
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Proud Sorrows"Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is settling into a peaceful rest at the country estate of Sir Richard Seaton, the father of Billy's British...
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Hornswogglers, Fourflushers & Snake-Oil Salesmen: True Tales of the Old West's Sleaziest SwindlersEveryone loves a heel, especially one to whom nothing was sacred and who charmed his or her way into the hearts, minds, and wallets of bumpkins and belles alike. This collection offers twenty-four tales of petty bandits, sleazy bunko artists, and conniving conmen and...
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The Appin Murder: The Killing That Shook a NationOn a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he's evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell's...
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Memoirs of a Baby Boomer: A Personal Time Capsule 1949 - 1962Memoirs of a Baby Boomer is for everyone, whether you grew up in the 1950s and '60s, or whether you wish to experience a different kind of childhood in America. Philip Haldeman's remarkable memory, youthful quest for knowledge, and search for identity will transport...
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Por Amor a la Libertad / For the Love of FreedomLa historia real del judío que escapó de la Alemania nazi y se convirtió en agente secreto de Estados Unidos La inspiradora historia de un superviviente de la Segunda Guerra Mundial Alemania, década de 1930. Los sueños y aspiraciones de la comunidad judía se...
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Searching for Van GoghSet in Michigan during the tumultuous closing weeks of 1963, "Searching for Van Gogh" is a heart-wrenching story of two young souls bravely navigating life's challenges.A young woman is inspired by a cinematic heroine to find meaning in a world that has cast her...
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La Hija de Auschwitz / The Daughter of AuschwitzEl desgarrador y conmovedor relato de una de las supervivientes más jóvenes de Auschwitz: una niña que sólo tenía cinco años cuando fue enviada a un campo de exterminio. BEST SELLER DE THE NEW YORK TIMES Prólogo de Sir Ben Kingsley FUI UNA DE...
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Rain Breaks No BonesEVERYBODY HAS SECRETS. EVEN THE DEAD. Fifty-year-old Violet has had a good life. The love of an honest man. The joys of motherhood. Yet, even in 1955, her heart still aches over the death of her sister more than four decades earlier. Lately, Violet...
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The Feldafing Boys: Uncovering My Father's Stolen Childhood at an Elite Nazi SchoolWhen Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a personal account of devastating trauma.During World War II, the Nazis trained some three hundred thousand German...
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My Father's HouseA WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARSet in Rome, Italy, and inspired by the true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, who, together with his accomplices, risked his life to smuggle thousands out of occupied Rome right under the nose of his Nazi nemesis,...
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In the Land of the Postscript: The Complete Short Stories of Chava RosenfarbWith the addition of two stories, namely, "The Masterpiece," "April 19th" and "Letters to God," this collection makes available in English for the first time a complete selection of Chava Rosenfarb's short stories all in one place. All the stories in this collection deal...
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Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's DownfallRe-issued forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon's historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew's Washington Journal, featuring a brilliant new afterword. Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew's Washington Journal is a landmark work...
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The Unforgivable: And Other WritingsThrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and Doctor Zhivago to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer.Christina Campo published only two short collections of essays in her lifetime: Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971). The...
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