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Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

by Wendy Holden

Published: 2015-05-05

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied ...

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Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back

by Janice P. Nimura

Published: 2015-05-04

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 "Surprising and richly satisfying" (Megan Marshall); "beautifully crafted…subtle, polished, and poised" (Stacy Schiff).In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return t...

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The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe

by Michael Pye

Published: 2015-04-15

Hardcover: 360 pages

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An epic adventure ranging from the terror of the Vikings to the golden age of cities: Michael Pye tells the amazing story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea. Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North Se...

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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

by Dean Jobb

Published: 2015-05-19

Hardcover: 352 pages

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“A brilliantly researched tale of greed, ambition, and our desperate need to believe in magic, it’s history that captures America as it really was--and always will be. A great read.” —Douglas Perry, author of Eliot Ness It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madde...

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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese-American Internment in World War II

by Richard Reeves

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

by Jim Bell

Published: 2015-02-24

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission— told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries—11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch.Voya...

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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab

by Steve Inskeep

Published: 2015-05-19

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its ...

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Joan of Arc: A History

by Helen Castor

Published: 2015-05-19

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world—as never told before.Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the Frenc...

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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

by Nikolaus Wachsmann

Published: 2015-04-14

Hardcover: 880 pages

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The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Thi...

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Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist

by Stephen Kurkjian

Published: 2015-03-10

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its collections included priceless artwor...