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The Sun Dance People: The Plains Indians Their Past and Present

by Richard Erdoes

Published: 1972-10

Paperback: 218 pages

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Contrasts the traditional life of the Plains Indians with "modern" life on the Government reservations.

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The Midwife

by Jolina Petersheim

Published: 2014-05-16

Paperback: 400 pages

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The story about a mother who risks everything to save a child not genetically hers . . . The Past -- Graduate student Beth Winslow was sure she was ready to navigate the challenges of becoming a surrogate. But when early tests indicate possible abnormalities with the baby, Beth is unpr...

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The Survivors Club: A Thriller

by Lisa Gardner

Published: 2013-06-25

Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages

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THE SURVIVORS CLUB   . . . that’s what Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen, and Meg Pesaturo call it. They won’t consider themselves victims. They are survivors. They helped lead the investigation that caught the man who changed their lives forever. Now they are the prime suspects in his murde...

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Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil

by Paul Bloom

Published: 2013-11-12

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it ...

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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman

by Robert L. O'Connell

Published: 2014-07-01

Hardcover: 432 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape—and the American character.   America’s first “cele...

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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

by Hampton Sides

Published: 2014-08-05

Hardcover: 480 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the for...

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Never Hug a Nun

by Kevin Killeen

Published: 2012-12-01

Paperback: 198 pages

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Kevin Killeen's debut novel, winner of a Silver Benjamin Franklin award from the Independent Book Publishers Association, is written with a keen sense of comic timing, and is a sweet, laugh-out-loud look at the innocence of childhood in the leafy Webster Groves suburbs of 1960s Saint Louis. From falling...

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How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination

by Sally Hogshead

Published: 2014-07-01

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Sally Hogshead believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself.Hogshead rose to the top of the advertising profession in her early 20s, writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Over the course of her ad career, Sally won hundreds of awards for creativity, co...

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Lost Kingdom: Hawaiiâ??s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and Americaâ??s First Imperial Venture

by Julia Flynn Siler

Published: 2013-01-08

Paperback: 415 pages

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"Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polynesian people, was encountered, annexed, and absorbed." ?Kevin Starr, historian, University ...

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Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument

by Allen St. John

Published: 2006-06-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Allen St. John started off looking for the world's greatest guitar, but what he found instead was the world's greatest guitar builder. Living and working in Rugby, Virginia (population 7), retired rural mail carrier Wayne Henderson is a true American origi...