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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement

by Taylor Branch

Published: 2013-08-13

Paperback: 224 pages

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Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning America in the King Years trilogy, presents selections from his monumental work that recount the essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. A masterpiece of storytelling on race and democracy, violence and nonviolence, The King Yea...

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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

by Richard Rubin

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 544 pages

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“Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who have all since died—bring to vivid life a cataclysm that changed our world forever but that remains curiously forgotten here.”—Adam...

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Sati

by Christopher Pike

Published: 2011-03-29

Paperback: 256 pages

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I once knew this girl who thought she was God. She didn’t give sight to the blind or raise the dead. She didn’t even teach anything, not really, and she never told me anything I probably didn’t already know.On the other hand, she didn’t expect to be worshipped, nor did she ask for ...

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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

by David Hoffman

Published: 2010-08-03

Paperback: 608 pages

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapon...

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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down

by Colin Woodard

Published: 2008-06-30

Paperback: 400 pages

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 The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the worldIn the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and C...

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The Wild Truth

by Carine McCandless

Published: 2014-11-11

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller"The Wild Truth is an important book on two fronts: It sets the record straight about a story that has touched thousands of readers, and it opens up a conversation about hideous domestic violence hidden behind a mask of prosperity and propriety."–NPR.orgThe spe...

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Killer Gourmet (A Savannah Reid Mystery)

by G.A. McKevett

Published: 2015-03-31

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid and her pals at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency know a thing or two about fine dining. But when murder shows up on the menu, it's time to go back to the kitchen. . .When the Moonlight Magnolia gang learns their friends Ryan Stone and John Gibson ...

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Paris Red: A Novel

by Maureen Gibbon

Published: 2015-04-20

Hardcover: 288 pages

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For readers of Girl with a Pearl Earring, a luminous and evocative novel of Édouard Manet’s muse.Paris, 1862. A young girl in a threadbare dress and green boots, hungry for experience, meets the mysterious and wealthy artist Édouard Manet. The encounter will change her?and the art worl...

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* * * Difficult

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Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

by Alexander Watson

Published: 2014-10-07

Hardcover: 832 pages

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For Germany and Austria-Hungary the First World War started with high hopes for a rapid, decisive outcome. Convinced that right was on their side and fearful of the enemies that encircled them, they threw themselves resolutely into battle. Yet, despite the initial halting of a brutal Russi...

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The Woman in the Photograph

by Dana Gynther

Published: 2015-08-04

Paperback: 352 pages

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Set in the romantic glow of 1920s Paris, a captivating novel of New York socialite and model Lee Miller, whose glamorous looks and joie de vivre caught the eye of Man Ray, one of the twentieth century’s defining photographers.1929, Montparnasse. Model and woman about town Lee Miller move...