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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon: A Living LegacyThe Civilian Conservation Corps transformed Oregon's landscapes, building lasting parks, roads, trails, and forest infrastructure.Amid the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt formulated a bold plan for putting millions of unemployed Americans to work and restoring the nation's public lands. Between 1933...
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The Warm Hands of GhostsNATIONAL BESTSELLER - During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale....
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The Oregon Trail: An American SagaIn today's world of jet airplanes and smooth highways, it is nearly impossible to imagine the hardships faced by the thousands of people who headed west along the great Oregon Trail. In this detailed and engaging account, historian David Dary recounts the full saga...
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Some Murders in Berlin: A WWII Historical Fiction NovelThis pulse-pounding, brilliantly twisting new historical thriller is a gripping tale that will leave you questioning everything.September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness--and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she's been summoned from Copenhagen to...
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Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a GenerationThe galvanizing true story of a group of remarkable women in the 1970s male-run world of business, banking, and finance. They didn't play by the rules. They changed them and made history.In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in...
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The Second World WarA masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall...
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The MurderessFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro comes a haunting true-crime novel about Winnie Ruth Judd, one of the twentieth century's most notorious and enigmatic killers.It's October 1931. When Winnie Ruth Judd arrives at the Los Angeles train station from Phoenix, her...
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FloreanaOn the Galápagos Islands, the lives of two women--a century apart--converge in the most startling ways in a historical novel of desperate love, secrets, and deception by the author of My Last Continent.After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana...
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The Secret Book of Flora LeaINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed. In the war-torn London of 1939,...
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A Schooling in MurderFrom the author of The Ashes of London, comes a new historical mystery set in the last days of WWII 'Ten out of ten' The Times 'A grand piece of work - a triumph and one of Taylor's best' MICK HERRON 'A wonderfully unique...
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The Room of Lost StepsAn American boy with impossible dreams is thrust into the cauldron of the Spanish Civil War in this arresting and thrilling historical coming-of-age epic and sequel to The Palace at the End of the Sea.Barcelona 1936. Theo helps the Anarchist workers defeat the army...
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The Baker of Lost MemoriesFrom the author of A Castle in Brooklyn comes an epic novel spanning decades about the broken bonds of family, memories of war, and redemption and hope in the face of heartbreaking loss.Growing up in 1960s Brooklyn, Lena wants to be a baker just...
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The Master JewelerFrom the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Night Angels comes the epic story of a brilliant young woman's dangerous rise to fame in the perilous world of jewelry in 1920s Shanghai--and the power of love and friendship.Harbin, China, 1925. Fifteen-year-old Anyu Zhang discovers...
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In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust"In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration, acquiescence and passivity of millions, there were people who risked their lives to save others out of a sense of shared humanity. This...
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end...
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the...
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The Palace at the End of the SeaA young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of an identity--and a cause--at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War in a thrilling, timely, and emotional historical saga.New York City, 1929. Young Theo Sterling's world begins to unravel as the Great...
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Grace of the Empire StateIn this "thrilling, heartbreaking" (Annie Lyons, author of The Air Raid Club) debut novel set during the Great Depression in 1930s New York, a daring dancer must take her twin brother's place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save...
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Time EnoughIn the early 1900's, a Manx family of miners subsists on a small-hold farm; their lives are stable, steeped in routines, love and faery lore, but they are on the verge of ruin. The young family must leave forever, in search of a new...
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The Teacher of AuschwitzFrom the bestselling author of Born Survivors, a novel inspired by the powerful true story of a man who risked everything to protect children in Auschwitz.Fredy built a wall against suffering in their hearts . . .Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright...
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