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Up: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure

by Patricia Ellis Herr

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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When Trish Herr became pregnant with her first daughter, Alex, she and her husband, Hugh, vowed to instill a bond with nature in their children. By the time Alex was five, her over-the-top energy levels led Trish to believe that her very young daughter might be capable of hiking adult-size...

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The Cake Therapist

by Judith Fertig

Published: 2015-06-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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A fiction debut that will leave you wanting seconds, from an award-winning cookbook author.Claire “Neely” O’Neil is a pastry chef of extraordinary talent. Every great chef can taste shimmering, elusive flavors that most of us miss, but Neely can “taste” feelings—cinnamon makes ...

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Outlaw

by Ted Dekker

Published: 2014-06-10

Paperback: 352 pages

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The story of how I, Julian Carter, and my precious two-year old son, Stephen, left Atlanta Georgia and found ourselves on a white sailboat, tossed about like a cork on a raging sea off of Australia's northern tip in 1963, is harrowing.But it pales in comparison to what happened deep in ...

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17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-Up in History

by Andrew Morton

Published: 2015-03-10

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II.Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his Americ...

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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia

by James Bradley

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 432 pages

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From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent.In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's engageme...

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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

by Laura J. Snyder

Published: 2015-03-16

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek?a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher?gazed through ...

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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

by Gerald Posner

Published: 2015-02-03

Hardcover: 752 pages

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A deeply reported, fast-paced exposé of the money and the cardinals-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican—the world’s biggest, most powerful religious institution—from an acclaimed journalist with “exhaustive research techniques” (The New York Times).From a master chroni...

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A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

by Marc Morris

Published: 2015-03-15

Hardcover: 480 pages

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The first major biography of a truly formidable king, whose reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale. Edward I is familiar to millions as "Longshanks," conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William ...

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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

by Rachel Swaby

Published: 2015-04-07

Paperback: 288 pages

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Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise thre...

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Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

by Rachel Cooke

Published: 2014-12-02

Hardcover: 368 pages

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An exuberant group biography—"a splendidly various collection of 'brief lives' written with both gusto and sensitivity" (The Guardian)—that follows ten women in 1950s Britain whose pioneering lives paved the way for feminism and laid the foundation of modern women's success.In Her Bril...