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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten BoomINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII--at the cost of losing her family and being...
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped AmericaAn award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men--who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from...
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Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to AmericaAward-winning journalist Ruth Gruber's powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943, nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration to...
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Bar Harbor in the Roaring Twenties: From Village Life to the High Life on Mount Desert IslandFrom the end of the Great War until the onslaught of the Great Depression, Americans had a good time, and nowhere was that more true than in Bar Harbor during high season. Amid peace and prosperity, the wealthy flocked to Mount Desert Island, foxtrotted...
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My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American...
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Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in EuropeA thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini--Benito Mussolini's favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe--and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream in Italy, from award-winning historian and author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet, Caroline Moorehead "Reads like...
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Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True CrimeNew York Times Editor's Pick & Best True Crime of 2022"Blood & Ink is among 2022's best works of true crime." --Washington PostVanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime...
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Street WarriorAs Seen On Discovery Channel's "Street Justice: The Bronx" 2,000 arrests. 100 off-duty arrests. 6,000 assists. 15 shootings. 8 shot. 4 kills. These are not the performance statistics of an entire NYPD unit. They are the record that makes Detective 2nd Grade Ralph Friedman...
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The Losing RoleA German actor conscripted into WWII will play the role of his life as he makes a daring escape in this espionage thriller inspired by true events. When the SS orders banned entertainer Max Kaspar to impersonate a US officer during the Battle of...
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America's Star-Spangled StoryO Say Can You See?Georgetown lawyer Francis Scott Key did not initially support the War of 1812 against Great Britain. After all, he voted against President James Madison and his war. Instead, Key supported the Federalist Party. But after the notorious British military burned...
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust JournalA New York Times bestseller A USA Today bestseller The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English"The publication of Renia's Diary offers a reminder of the power of bearing witness." --The New York...
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Wild Bill Donovan Lib/E: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American EspionageAuthor: Douglas WallerPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 03/28/2011Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200095827About the AuthorWaller, Douglas: - Douglas Waller is a former correspondent for Newsweek and Time who has reported on the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, and Congress. He served for eight years...
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Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our PastIn this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation's past The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions...
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Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise"[A] concise, meticulously researched, century-spanning chronicle of queer life on Fire Island captures, with a plain-spoken yet lyric touch, the locale's power to stun and shame, to give pleasure and symbolize evanescence." --Wayne Koestenbaum, New York Times Book Review Fire Island, a thin strip...
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Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original"Seldom does a sports biography--especially a page-turner--so comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are." - Sports IllustratedFrom the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball's...
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The World of Virginia Woolf: A 1000-Piece Jigsaw PuzzleA 1000-PIECE PUZZLE that makes a perfect gift for fans of Virginia Woolf and her work. INCLUDES A PULL-OUT POSTER so you can spot all the characters and read their stories. "THE WORLD OF..." JIGSAWS are a fun way of celebrating the lives and...
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The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted AideAn inside look at President Richard Nixon's administration and epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, by the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy.From Richard Nixon's "You-won't-have-Nixon-to-kick-around-anymore" 1962...
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Harrisburg in World War IIAs the nation entered into the throes of World War II, Harrisburg was prepared to answer the call of service. Prideful as a beehive of industry, the city was a hub for wartime manufacturing, railroads and distribution. Bond drives attracted celebrities such as Abbott...
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Rose Cherami: Gathering Fallen PetalsRose's son, Dr. Michael Marcades, pieces together the fragments of Rose's troubled life - involving her secret life with mobsters, assassins, the FBI, personal substance abuse, prostitution rings, and violence - to reveal startling truths about the events leading up to the assassination of...
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Racing: Indian StyleCharles Curtis was a Kansan, Native American, Jockey, Attorney, Senator and Vice President of the United States. He was the first person from Kansas and the first person of significant Native American heritage to rise to the top of the United States government -...
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