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DrawnFor many gay men in America in 1955, life was an exercise in concealment, where to be one's true self could spell rejection, jail, or even death. For Jack Lovett, it means getting thrown out of his house on a cold March night with...
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African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United StatesExplore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History! The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The people who dared to stand up and speak out against the systemic cruelty and oppression were often brutally killed for their...
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The Fairacre FestivalTthe first day of October brings an unheralded and violent storm, which whips through Fairacre, blowing down trees and telephone poles -- and, worst of all, damaging the roof of St. Patrick's Church. The inhabitants of tiny Fairacre can't imagine how they will be...
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Last Comes the Raven: And Other StoriesThe first complete English-language edition of one of Calvino's important early short story collections Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection--one of Calvino's earliest--take place in a World War II-era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and...
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The Essential Lewis and ClarkThis compact volume of the journals of Lewis and Clark, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure--in their own words The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most...
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Even if I PerishBased on a miraculous true story of courage in the face of impossible odds."If I perish, I perish." A sermon based on Queen Esther's famous words spurs music teacher Mary Cornish to action. She volunteers to escort a group of 15 girls from England...
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Conversation in the Cathedral"Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the master storytellers of our time." -- Chicago TribuneFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a haunting novel about power, corruption, and the complex search for identity.Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru...
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Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond ReproachAward-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Meryl Gordon's Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach is "an even-handed and fascinating portrait of a wealthy family torn apart by money, jealousy, and emotional distance" (USA Today). The fate of...
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The Big Roads"Travelers hitting the highways this summer might better appreciate the asphalt beneath their tires thanks to this engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system."--Los Angeles Times Perhaps nothing changed the face of America more than the creation of the interstate system....
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Exposing the Expositions 1851-1915- Revised 2021Expositions Exposed 2021 is a fully revised and edited version of the 2019 original.Have we have been lied to? During 1850-1915 Great Expositions (Fairs) were built worldwide including: Chicago 1893, Paris 1900, St. Louis 1904, San Francisco 1915. These giant 7-1200 acre expos were...
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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New HollywoodOne of The Hollywood Reporter's 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time "Pictures at a Revolution is probably one of the best books I've ever read in my life." --Quentin Tarantino The New York Times bestseller that follows the making of five films at...
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Berlin Game: A Bernard Samson NovelBerlin Game begins with a plea from "Brahms Four," one of Britain's most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed in London, is tasked with...
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Little Heathens: Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great DepressionI tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and...
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The Good ShepherdNow a major motion picture Greyhound on AppleTV+, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy...
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American HistoryThe New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue. In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting, American legends Jim...
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The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine"A vividly detailed, heartbreaking tale about a dark, alien place, the people who loved working there and a town that has never been the same. He brings to life the hot, dirty, treasure-hunt environment where danger was a miner's heroin." --Seattle Times "Investigation at...
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The Drowned and the SavedIn his final book before his death, Primo Levi returns once more to his time at Auschwitz in a moving meditation on memory, resiliency, and the struggle to comprehend unimaginable tragedy. Drawing on history, philosophy, and his own personal experiences, Levi asks if we...
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest MutinyIn 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful...
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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's DestinyNow in paperback with a new afterword.... Another pageturning New York Times bestseller by the authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates. The War of 1812 saw America threatened on every side. Encouraged by the British, Indian tribes...
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A Russian JournalSteinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. Featuring newly reset, high-resolution black and white photography by Robert Capa A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer...
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