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Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen WilsonIn New York City back in April of 1874, a most unusual event took place. A severely abused nine-year-old girl named Mary Ellen Wilson became the first child in America to be rescued from an abusive home. She had been beaten, burned, slashed with...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New...
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JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral BiographyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fascinating...the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written." --The Washington Post The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his closest friends,...
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The Fate of the Generals: Macarthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines"One of the very best World War II books in many years...A great read." --General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA * "Fans of Unbroken will love this book." --Doug Stanton In the tradition of Ghost Soldiers, a "riveting" (The...
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What We Leave BehindWhat We Leave Behind has been chosen by the North Dakota Center for the Book to be included in the "Great Reads from Great Places" list for the 2025 National Book Festival of the Library of Congress!***Martin and Asta came to America in 1913...
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Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern AmericaA Washington Post Book of the YearWinner of the Merle Curti AwardWinner of the Jacques Barzun PrizeWinner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award "A masterful study of privacy."--Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books "Masterful (and timely)...[A] marathon trek from Victorian propriety to social...
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Chasing the Dark: A 140-Year Investigation of Paranormal ActivityA gripping narrative that uses the case files of Tony Cornell and the Society for Physical Research to examine our interactions and obsessions with all things paranormal. Tony Cornell spent his life probing the very edges of reality. A member of the UK's Society...
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U.S.A.: The Complete Trilogy [The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and the Big Money]This gorgeous new paperback edition collects the three volumes of John Dos Passos's acclaimed U.S.A. trilogy, named one of the best books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, and a "linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age--his, and ours" (The New...
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal WestThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal)--the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build...
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The Mapmaker: A Novel of World War IIResistance fighters Charlotte and Philippe, an American woman and a Frenchman, brave death or worse to evade the Gestapo and get critical information to the Allies. Resistance operative Charlotte Denneau has critical targeting information for the Allies, and the Gestapo knows it. On the...
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Still Life: A GMA Book Club PickA Good Morning America Book Club Pick A Veranda Magazine Book Club Pick A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man. Tuscany, 1944:...
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War. Shaken by economic and technological disruption, they...
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Inside the Reagan White House: A Front-Row Seat to Presidential Leadership with Lessons for TodayAn inside look at the most successful president of modern times. What makes a good White House memoir? The right mix of personal stories, insight on the president, discussion of policy and historical events, and crazy, colorful anecdotes that capture the reader's attention. Inside...
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A Death in BerlinTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! 'Scarrow's Berlin is sharply drawn with closely observed detail, a place that reeks of threat and fear - and not just from the Gestapo' Financial Times 'Gripping, with an electric atmosphere and cracking pace' Sun Berlin. 1940. Hitler's rule...
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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial EqualityThe New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington. When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker...
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Leadership: In Turbulent TimesFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and...
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The Silence and the RageFrom "a novelist at the height of his powers," a dramatic and jubilant dive into France in the "glorious years" of the 1950s, through the lens of one ambitious, troubled, and utterly compelling family (La Croix). It is 1952 and the grown children of...
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History"Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account." --Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post "An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, even lyrical writer." --David W. Blight, Los Angeles Times A...
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Wolf at the TableThe Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst in this "masterful novel" that "peers into the dark heart of America" (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day)...
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DiplomacyA brilliant, sweeping history of diplomacy that includes personal stories from the noted former Secretary of State, including his stunning reopening of relations with China. The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy. Moving from a sweeping overview of history to...
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