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The Fort at Prospect Bluff: The British Post on the Apalachicola & the Battle of Negro FortThe deadliest cannon shot in American history was fired at the "Negro Fort" at Prospect Bluff on Florida's Apalachicola River on July 27, 1816. The resulting explosion killed more than 270 men, women, and children, and destroyed the largest free black settlement in North...
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The Kiev ConfessionSet against the fall of the Soviet Union, The Kiev Confession is a journalistic thriller weaving together the stories of a Ukrainian family devastated by the Chernobyl disaster and an American journalist who unearths a nuclear secret at the heart of her own family's...
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The B-58 Blunder: How the U.S. Abandoned its Best Strategic Bomber.Highly effective weapons of war that often cost millions of dollars can easily end up in a trash pile due to quick and uninformed decisions. This work is a case study on how the B-58 supersonic bomber came to a premature death in the...
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Mary Alice Everline Katie Fisher ValentineLana (Allen) Hilton was born in 1947 in Walters, Okla. Growing up in a small town setting and having Grandparents available, made home and family the center of childhood. The church, the school, and the community set a constant guideline of how we lived....
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Harper Lee and MeHarper Lee and Me is the result of five years of study by David Dessauer, as he dissected and explored the various "secrets" he found in the epic book To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM). Although the author and Harper Lee never met, he felt...
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San Francisco Is Burning Lib/E: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and FiresAuthor: Dennis SmithPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 09/22/2005Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200149049About the AuthorSmith, Dennis: - Dennis Smith is a retired New York City firefighter. He stayed in the fire department an additional nineteen years after the success of his first book, Report from Engine Co. 82....
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The Last Seven Months of Anne FrankThe "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women who survived the hell from which Anne Frank never retumed.Author: Willy...
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Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XIIThe "explosive" (The New York Times) bestseller that "redefined the history of the twentieth century" (The Washington Post ) This shocking book was the first account to tell the whole truth about Pope Pius XII's actions during World War II, and it remains the...
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The Economic Consequences of the PeaceOne of the most important economic documents of the 20th century John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiating the peace treaty ending World War I. Frustrated and angered by the...
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller CenterIn this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart...
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My XanthiA Greek immigrant woman's wartime secrets teach a criminal defense lawyer about love's triumph over injustice.My Xanthi brings together the clashing worlds of cantankerous, loveable criminal defense lawyer Nick Milonas: southern California where he lives with his Korean-American wife and twin daughters, the suburban...
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of AmericaA New York Times Notable Book "In an era of jet tourism, Jonathan Raban] remains a traveler-adventurer in the tradition of . . . Robert Louis Stevenson." --The New York Times Book Review In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St....
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the MafiaThis disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence suggesting the...
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Carpenter's GothicThis story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand crusade that conveniently...
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Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of Fdr's Great Supreme Court JusticesA tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on...
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The GatekeeperThe "fine biography" and "compelling personal story" (The Wall Street Journal) of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration, Marguerite "Missy" LeHand, FDR's de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history...until now.Widely considered the first--and...
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With just one suitcaseThis is a true story about two boys, Istvan and Frici, who live two kilometres but worlds apart in Romania. One is Catholic, one is Jewish. Yet when the Second World War breaks out, the familiar world with its clear divisions disintegrates. On their...
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The House in the WaterA secluded house. A lost notebook. A wartime secret.1942: Young Irish nurse Ellen arrives at May Day House, tasked with helping the men there rehabilitate. But there's something strange about the house, surrounded by water, on its own island in the Thames. And then...
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Army Girls: Heartbreak and HopeThe next story in a BRAND NEW series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller - Meet the Army Girls!June 1942Grace Sinclair never meant to sign up to the ATS, but when her parents made it clear she had to marry a man she hated,...
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Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the DeadAuthor: Christine WickerPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 09/26/2006Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.54w x 0.76dISBN: 9780061153747About the AuthorWicker, Christine: - Christine Wicker was raised in Oklahoma, Texas, and other parts of the South. Her mother's grandfather was an itinerant Baptist preacher, and her dad's father...
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