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The Secret They HidAll's not fair in love and war.As the Great War rages, two brothers, Leo and Alex, are ensnared in a captivating love triangle with the stunning Adelaide. While Leo is the unwavering protector, Alex, the enigmatic seducer, ultimately captures Adelaide's heart.Their lives are further...
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The Interpretation of CakesThe Interpretation of Cakes is like no other novel you have ever read and is one novel that you will never forget.It's 1916 and Isaak Brodsky has inherited his family's patisserie in the Jewish quarter of Budapest. Here, in the midst of shelves overcrowded...
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The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery"Goodman writes crisp, confident prose, giving us a novel as compelling as the incredible true story it's based on. The Last Man blends thrilling, cinematic set pieces with convincing character work that explores the nature of crime and rehabilitation. Fans of historical fiction should...
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Where the Acorn Falls: a mental wandering of growing up a product of the 1950sThere is a difference between growing up and growing older.Growing up in the suburbs in the 1950s was a completely different experience than growing up after the year 2000. Just about everything was self-created and directed. From a very early age, we left our...
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Crossroads of GraniteThe storm of war thunders to a finale.Nora Brouwer, a radar operator, watches as Allied bombers crest the horizon. A cryptic call tempts her-safety or a daring mission?Her brother-in-law Christiaan Brouwer, ensnared in an SS prison, faces a dire choice: betray his secrets or...
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The Shakespeare Sisters: An emotional and absolutely unputdownable WW2 historical romanceFour motherless sisters, raised by a distant father in a crumbling, ivy-choked country estate. A terrible war on the horizon that will tear an ancient family apart. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in England, has grown up running...
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Another Time and Place: A novel of World War IIENGLAND, 1944.A chance meeting changes two people's lives for ever.Young American pilot Tom Blake isn't looking for love, but seeing Anna Pilgrim in a tearoom on a cold winter afternoon changes everything. So begins a passionate affair. Their happiness does not last. Shot down...
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The Fowler Family: Early California PioneersThe 1840s were transformative years in California. What was then a remote Mexican territory became the destination for opportunity-seeking Americans such as the author's fourth-great grandfather, William Fowler. William and his family moved west in three stages over 30 years, always seeking out the...
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How Desolate Our Home Bereft Of TheeAuthor: Sue Jensen WeeksPublisher: Clouds of Magellan Pub.Published: 10/27/2014Pages: 226Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52dISBN: 9781742984681This title is not returnable
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Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to EarthIn time for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing comes this edition of journalist Andrew Smith's Moondust, now updated with a new Afterword, that tells the fascinating story of twelve astronauts who ventured to space, and his interviews with nine of...
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A Family's Civil Ware StrugglesNorth Carolina Family during the American Civil War.Author: Maynard SheltonPublisher: Brownshel PublishingPublished: 10/20/2014Pages: 140Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44dISBN: 9781582752952This title is not returnable
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Saunders Meadow - A Place Without Fences, A History of The Term Occupancy Permit Act of 1915On March 4, 1915, with the prompting and support of the US Forest Service, Congress passed the Occupancy Act. This Special Use Permit allowed private citizens the opportunity to occupy national forest or public domain lands for a certain period of time for family...
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Shot All to HellShot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time. Follow the Wild West's most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield's First...
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West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony ExpressWestern Writers of America Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years." --True West"This rollicking account of the daring enterprise known as the Pony Express brings its...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New DealWhen the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial...
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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold WarNow in paperback, a riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer--the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold WarIn the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon was living in...
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Women of Vision: Founders of the Daughters of the American RevolutionA widowed single mother, domestic-violence survivor, impoverished Southern belle and poor relation of America's first president: Eugenia Washington, Mary Desha, Ellen Hardin Walworth and Mary Smith Lockwood. They founded an enduring organization for women: the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution...
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The Making of the President 1972" White] revolutionized the art of political reporting." --William F. BuckleyThe Making of the President 1972 is the fourth book in Theodore H. White's landmark series, a riveting account of the 1972 presidential campaign and Richard M. Nixon's precedent-shattering landslide victory. White had made...
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Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession."--Saturday ReviewAuthor: Frederick L. AllenPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 07/16/1986Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize:...
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A new Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: ... And a Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro'The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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