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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery

by Robert M M. Poole, Robert M Poole

Published: 2009-10-27

Hardcover: 368 pages

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An intimate, behind-the-scenes chronicle of America’s most sacred ground.“Along Eisenhower Drive, as far as the eye could see, the grave markers formed into bone-white brigades, climbed from the flats of the Potomac River, and scattered over the green Virginia hills in perfect order. T...

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The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

by Rosalind Williams

Published: 2013-09-30

Hardcover: 432 pages

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In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek “the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things;...

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Two Brothers: A Novel

by Ben Elton

Published: 2012-12-17

Hardcover: 424 pages

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The new novel from this well-loved, bestselling author. Two Brothers is a heartrending story of two boys growing up under the darkening shadow of the Nazis. Born in Berlin in 1920 and raised by the same parents, one boy is Jewish, his adopted brother is Aryan. At first, their origins are ...

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A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls

by Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray, Margaret K. Hofer

Published: 2007-03-22

Hardcover: 200 pages

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Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is celebrated today as one of the most influential creative designers of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls presents the celebrated works of Tiffany Studios in an entirely new context, focu...

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Five Days in November

by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin

Published: 2013-11-19

Hardcover: 256 pages

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On November 22 , 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a...

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Last Friends (Old Filth Trilogy)

by Jane Gardam

Published: 2013-04-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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Book Three in Jane Gardam's Old Filth trilogy.Last Friends is the third and concluding novel in the highly praised trilogy that began with Old Filth and continued with The Man in the Wooden Hat. The haunting first novel was the story of a decades-long marriage that stretched from the immed...

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A Great and Godly Adventure

by Godfrey Hodgson

Published: 2007-10-02

Paperback: 240 pages

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The first Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated with turkey (there weren't any in Massachusetts) and didn't take place in 1621. Indeed the settlers, who probably didn't think of themselves as Pilgrims and were most certainly not revolutionaries against their king, were lucky not to be wiped ...

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The Laws of Gravity

by Liz Rosenberg

Published: 2013-05-07

Paperback: 298 pages

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An exquisite tour de force, The Laws of Gravity is a testament to what it means to be a family, what it takes to save a life, and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love. Two families, bound by blood. One decision holds the key to survival. Nicole, red-haired and beautiful, disc...

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The Actor

by Douglas Gardham

Published: 2013-04-08

Paperback: 406 pages

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It is 1991 when Ethan Jones finally wins the role of his dreams in an upcoming, big screen movie. With the envelope holding the script clutched in his hand, he arrives at his California apartment where he can hardly wait to tell his live-in girlfriend the exciting news. But when he finds the door unexpectedly...

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The Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet

by Joann Eckstut, Arielle Eckstut

Published: 2013-10-22

Hardcover: 240 pages

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In this beautiful and thorough investigation, The Secret Language of Color celebrates and illuminates the countless ways in which color colors our world.Why is the sky blue, the grass green, a rose red? Most of us have no idea how to answer these questions, nor are we aware that color perv...