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The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey TeamThe true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which Sports Illustrated called the greatest moment in sports history--with a new afterword by Ken Morrow for the fortieth anniversary of the Miracle on Ice "An unvarnished and captivating...
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Gretel and the Great WarA New Yorker best book of 2024 One of Bloomberg's nine best books of summer 2024 "Inventive . . . Whimsical . . . Fusing period atmosphere with fairy tale, Ehrlich Sachs hints at modern themes while summoning an unexpected imaginary place." --The New...
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Black ButterfliesSHORT-LISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION. A timeless story of strife and hope set during the conflict in the Balkans in the early '90s--a searing debut novel about a woman who faces the war on her doorstep with courage, fierceness, and an unshakable...
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A Traitor in Whitehall: A MysteryFrom Julia Kelly, internationally bestselling author of The Last Dance of the Debutante, comes the first in the mysterious and immersive Evelyne Redfern series, A Traitor in Whitehall. "Kelly spins an Agatha Christie-esque mystery . . . thoroughly delightful and well-researched."--Susan Elia MacNeal 1940,...
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The Painted BirdJerzy Kosinski's mythic, master-work of a shattered post-War Europe. Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski's story follows a dark-haired, olive-skinned boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, as he wanders alone from...
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Winter LoveThe raw account of a life-altering affair in wartime London--"Han Suyin's outstanding achievement . . . her finest novel." (Alison Hennegan) As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her married classmate Mara. Their...
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The Holocaust: 100 Questions and AnswersWhy, today, do we hear so much about the Holocaust? Why are people we don't like called 'Nazis'? Why is Hitler's name constantly invoked as the embodiment of evil? Why is the Holocaust a perennial theme in films and documentaries? Why are there repeated...
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Running Around Town: An Ann Arbor MemoirThis collection of essays shares the observations of an energetic boy living in an anything-but-simple time: the mercurial decades of the 1960s and 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Running Around Town brings funny and quirky insights into gentle focus, with a lens on the small...
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Gabriel's Moon: A Gabriel Dax NovelFrom the internationally bestselling author beloved by readers everywhere, William Boyd offers his most exhilarating novel yet, following a reluctant spy drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsessionGabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his...
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyA New York Times Notable Book - Inspiration for PBS's American Experience film The Poison Squad "A detailed, highly readable history of food and drink regulation in the United States." --Wall Street Journal "Riveting. . . . [A] timely tale about how scientists and...
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Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the StoryThe true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn--told from the perspective of the native americans who fought in Custer's Last Stand. The day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American boy by U.S. cavalry troopers. Before it ended, all of those...
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The Postmistress of ParisAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK* A GMA BUZZ PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK* AN AMAZON BEST OF THE MONTH PICK, LITERATURE AND FICTION*A PEOPLE MAGAZINE PICKThe New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the...
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The Last Hope: A Maggie Hope MysteryNATIONAL BESTSELLER - All will be revealed in this no-holds-barred finale of the Edgar Award-nominated Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer--and possible double agent--Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program. "Intrepid Maggie Hope's...
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the WestFrom the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning-author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, a fascinating look at the old American West and the man who prophetically warned against the dangers of settling it In...
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Women's Diaries of the Westward JourneyMore than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences...
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The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's SoulNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The 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: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In The President and the Freedom Fighter, Brian Kilmeade...
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age AmericaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy "Gatsby-era...
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church"An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society."--Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On JuneteenthNew York Times Book...
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery StoryMLK's classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells...
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. In...
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