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Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American LumberjackLumberjacks: the men, the myth, and the making of an American legend The folk hero Paul Bunyan, burly, bearded, wielding his big ax, stands astride the story of the upper Midwest--a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast north woods for the...
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The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors"A historian who has spent the last quarter-century exploring China's lakes, rivers, and seas, and plunging into the country's rich maritime history, Schwankert and his team solved what was an enduring mystery - the identity and fate of Titanic's six Chinese survivors." --James Cameron...
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Theodore Roosevelt (Re-Issue) PPringle's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography not only chronicles the incidents that shaped Roosevelt's career but also offers insight into the character and mind of this colorful american president. Index.Author: Henry Pringle,PringlePublisher: Houghton MifflinPublished: 01/13/2003Pages: 456Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.59w x 1.18dISBN: 9780156028028
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The Cicada TreeWHEN AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD, WHISKY DRINKING, PIANO PRODIGY ENCOUNTERS A WEALTHY FAMILY POSSESSING SUPERNATURAL BEAUTY, HER ENSUING OBSESSION UNLEASHES FAMILY SECRETS AND A CATACLYSMIC PLAGUE OF CICADAS. The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence, Georgia, a natural event with supernatural repercussions,...
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Gone with the WindGone With the Wind is a sweeping tale of love, loss, and survival set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Margaret Mitchell's epic novel follows the indomitable Scarlett O'Hara as she navigates the tumultuous world of the Old South, fighting...
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Helen ButtonWinner of the Eludia Award from Hidden River Arts.Daughter of a Collaborationist. Housekeeper to Gertrude Stein. An ordinary woman lives through extraordinary times.In this dual timeline narrative, a young French housekeeper lives out the years of World War II near Vichy France with her...
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Kill or Get KilledRex Applegate's "Kill or be Killed" is a timeless classic of WW2 military combatives. Printed in 1943 for military and civil markets, it explores the core techniques and training needed to stay safe in the warzones and combat theatres of the second world war.Kill...
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Winter's End"A page-turner with honest characters who capture your heart and soul." -Faye KellermanLuring Nazi officers from smoky taverns to their deaths was not what Evi Strobel bargained for when she agreed to join the Dutch Resistance. But that is what she did until that...
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Cherokee Indian Lore And Smoky Mountains Stories""Cherokee Indian Lore And Smoky Mountains Stories"" is a book written by Margaret R. Siler that explores the rich cultural heritage of the Cherokee people and the natural beauty of the Smoky Mountains. The book is a collection of traditional Cherokee stories, legends, and...
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Even as We BreatheNineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and...
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Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Death and MourningBeyond the Veil is a visual tour through the curious history of how we deal with death--the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols, and ceremonies. From Victorian England across to the US, learn about the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how...
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Plunder and Survival: Stories of Theft, Loss, Recovery, and Migration of Nazi Uprooted ArtWritten by a Holocaust survivor whose family collected art, Plunder and Survival tells the stories of principal figures, events, and artworks that contribute to the intricate story of the ruthless Nazi attack on modern art and the art world's subsequent repositioning in America.Each chapter...
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A Place to HideFrom the winner of the National Jewish Book AwardTheodore "Teddy" Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat's career. In 1938, as Hitler's inexorable rise continues, Teddy...
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In the Ghost Shadows: The Untold Story of Chinatown's Most Powerful Crime BossA never-before-seen glimpse into the rarefied world of the Ghost Shadows, New York's powerful Chinese crime organization of the 1970s and '80s--written by the young leader who ran it: reformed gangster Peter Chin. Only in fairy tales can a poor orphan become royalty. But...
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Only the Brave#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a powerful, sweeping historical novel about a courageous woman in World War II Germany. Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than...
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The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted WilliamsCASEY Award Finalist for Best Baseball Book of the Year The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history. It was 1953, the...
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Meet the Kellys: The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn ThorneGangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellys--the bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as "Machine Gun" Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne--who masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappings in American crime . . . How did a small-time, hip-pocket bootlegger become one of the most notorious gangsters...
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Stone AngelsIn this "riveting [and] unforgettable" novel, a forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland--and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother (Jimin Han, author of The Apology). Angelina Lee feels like she doesn't belong. Newly...
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The English ProblemA young Indian man is tapped to help his country's fight for freedom--but his heart engages him in a different war. "Grand, sweeping, mesmerizing . . . a richly detailed, politically profound story of love, of migration, of individuals caught up in the great...
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Old SoulThe Historian meets Under the Skin in this searingly provocative literary horror novel about one woman's determination to stay alive at any terrifying cost. In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they've both brutally lost loved ones...
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