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Smoke on the Water". . . will keep you wanting to turn the next page." -Richard Hess, US Air Force officer (Ret.) and coauthor of Night of the Bear In 1971, the war in Vietnam still rages. Jason Conley, a recent college graduate, finds himself paying the...
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Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century CircusThe fascinating story of how nineteenth-century circus women performed impossible feats and changed American culture.Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers: boundary-breaking women like Lavinia Warren, known as The Queen of Beauty; Millie-Christine McKoy, the Two-Headed Nightingale; and Patty...
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical ImaginationThe 20th-anniversary edition of Kelley's influential history of 20th-century Black radicalism, with new reflections on current movements and their impact on the author, and a foreword by poet Aja Monet First published in 2002, Freedom Dreams is a staple in the study of the...
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The Last WhalerTHE LAST WHALER is an elegiac meditation on the will to survive under extreme conditions. Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his remote whaling station when they...
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Footnote to History: From Hungary to America. The Memoir of a Holocaust SurvivorThe secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his experiences with the Nazis, his will to...
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The Town That Started the Civil WarBefore the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.S. government and Oberlin, Ohio. . . . "A fascinating, gripping narrative."--James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of FreedomOn a crisp autumn day in Ohio, 1858, two Kentucky slave hunters were...
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The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945The Boys' Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell's unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman's experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author's own experiences, it provides a stirring narrative of what the war was actually like,...
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Sharpe's Battle: The Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the twelth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men...
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The Lady and Her MonstersThe Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.Montillo recounts how--at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution--Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists...
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Underground: My Life with Sds and the Weathermen"Honest and funny, passionate and contrite, meticulously researched and deeply philosophical: an essential document on the '60s." --Washington Post Mark Rudd, former '60s radical student leader and onetime fugitive member of the notorious Weather Underground, tells his compelling and engrossing story for the first...
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Unfinished PortraitAuthor: Agatha Christie,Mary WestmacottPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.88dISBN: 9780063452565About the AuthorChristie, Agatha: - Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have...
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The Cherry HarvestA memorable coming-of-age story and love story, laced with suspense, which explores a hidden side of the home front during World War II, when German POWs were put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences.The war...
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The Storyteller's DaughterThe BRAND NEW beautiful historical novel from Victoria Scott, perfect for fans of Evie Woods, Kate Storey and Rachel Burton. A secret buried for decades... A story that will change everything. 1940: When twenty-one-year-old Nita Bineham is offered the chance of independence, away from...
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Wildwood BoysFrom the raw clay of historical fact, James Carlos Blake has sculpted a powerful novel of both a man and an America at war with themselves. Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of...
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Five Quarters of the OrangeWhen Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present...
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The Thread"A brilliant page turner...rich with drama and historical detail."--Glamour (UK)A beautiful and epic novel that spans nearly a hundred years, The Thread is a magnificent story of a friendship and a love that endures through the catastrophes and upheavals of the twentieth century--both natural...
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Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its LegacyWith a new preface, a "profound, chilling, and heartbreaking, contribution to American history" that investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community (Boston Globe). On May 30, 1921, a misunderstanding between a...
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German Generals TalkThe German Generals who survived Hitler's Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British miltary strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and respect. For the first time, answers are revealed to many questions...
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The Hand That First Held MineFrom the best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood."An exquisitely sensual tale of love, motherhood, and other forms of madness, The Hand That First Held...
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How to Find Your Way in the DarkFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDWINNER OF THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES"[Miller's] character portraits are indelible, often heartbreaking. At times this novel moved me to tears, the highest possible compliment."--New York Times Book Review With the wit and...
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