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My Remarkable Journey: A MemoirThe remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a...
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American WestNow in paperback, the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the Wild West, set in Dodge City, the most depraved and criminal town in the nation. The instant New York Times bestseller Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The...
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings"THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." --The Times (London)A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle--deserve to be celebrated as...
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Essays of E. B. White"Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White's style incorporates eloquence without affection, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White's creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities." --...
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Glory Days: The Summer of 1984 and the 90 Days That Changed Sports and Culture ForeverA rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sportsThe summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the...
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Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack RubyThe incredible story of one of America's most publicized--and surprising--criminal trials in history. No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of President Kennedy, a troubled nightclub owner named Jack Ruby quietly slipped into the Dallas...
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The Pitch That KilledOn a torridly hot August day in 1920, Ray Chapman was struck and killed by a Carl Mays fastball, in what was and remains the only on-the-field fatality in the history of major league baseball. The drama of Good Guy Chapman versus Bad Guy...
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Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission" A] well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city...Puleo's tale, despite the hardship to come, surely is a tribute to the better angels of America's nature, and in that...
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesAdam Hochschild's Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history--the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryA National Book Award FinalistA...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--And Why It FailedBrad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on the sixteenth president in The Lincoln Conspiracy. Everyone...
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights MovementThe essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy--Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan's Edge.Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning America in...
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The Arsenal of Democracy: Fdr, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at WarNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The story of the dramatic transformation of Detroit from "motortown" to the "arsenal of democracy," featuring Edsel Ford, who rebelled against his pacifist father, Henry Ford, to build a manufacturing complex that was crucial to winning WWII.As the United States...
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War"The WikiLeaks of its day" (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. "The most significant leaks of classified material in American history." -Washington Post Not Fake News The basis for the...
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Long Time Dead: My Investigation into the Unsolved Murder of Ralph Wilson SnairHow did a conservative, simple-living, retired church custodian come to die from a gunshot wound to the head? Was it murder or suicide?On April 19, 1957, Ralph Wilson Snair was found dead in a rented vehicle at the side of Highway 50, two miles...
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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New WestThe dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The Revenant Michael Punke's The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved...
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Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern AmericaFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the transcontinental railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines,...
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the WorldIn 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and had a decisive effect on the history of the twentieth...
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern AgeNamed "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins.A rare and remarkable cultural history of World War...
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The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece"The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov's masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness." --David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower...
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On DemocracyA New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title"For democracy's weary champions, White's time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline" (Madeleine Albright)."I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear."These words were written by E....
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