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Author:Anna Pasternak
Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago
The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya--the true tragedy behind the timeless classic.When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris...- $39.99
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Author:Medea Benjamin
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
Weeks after America invaded Afghanistan in 2002, Medea Benjamin visited that country. There, talking with victims of the strikes, she learned the reality behind the "precision bombs" on which US forces were becoming reliant. Now, with the use of drones escalating at a meteoric...- $24.95
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Author:Barbara W. Tuchman
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and...- $49.95
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Author:William Manchester
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the...- $49.95
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Author:Iain MacGregor
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall...- $39.99
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Author:Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation's capital and reach freedom. When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly...- $34.99
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Author:Carl Bernstein
All the President's Men
The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal.This is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope...- $44.99
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Author:Kate Reading
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Spy Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Woman
From internationally bestselling author of the "gripping" (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Into the Lion's Mouth comes the extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during...- $39.99
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Author:Susan Orlean
The Library Book
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read...Everybody who loves books should check out The...- $39.99
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Author:Rinker Buck
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - #1 Indie Next Pick - Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting...A book filled with so much love...Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of...- $24.99
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Author:Robert O'Neill
The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team Warrior
This instant New York Times bestseller--"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account" (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the world's...- $39.99
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Author:Thich Nhat Hanh
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Old Path White Clouds presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. Drawn directly from twenty-four Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat Hanh in his inimitably beautiful style, this book traces the Buddha's life slowly and gently over the course...- $44.95
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Author:Andrew Cockburn
Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
This essential, page-turning narrative on the history of drone warfare by the acclaimed author of Rumsfeld explores how this practice emerged, who made it happen, and the real consequences of targeted killing.Assassination by drone is a subject of deep and enduring fascination, yet few...- $29.95
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Author:Richard W. Maass
Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion
The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In...- $130.00
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Author:David McCullough
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America's master historian, David McCullough....- $14.99
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Author:Clint Hill
Five Days in November
Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas,...- $24.99
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Author:S. C. Gwynne
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as...- $59.99
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Author:Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John...- $39.99
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Author:Barbara W. Tuchman
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details...- $39.95
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Author:Jeremy Scahill
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor US soldiers. The shooters were private forces...- $29.95
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Author:Alistair Horne
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians...- $44.95
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Author:Alfred Lansing
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent...- $81.00
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Author:Bill O'Reilly
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
This program features an introduction read by Bill O'Reilly. The Revolutionary War as never told before. The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports listeners to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told...- $39.99
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Author:Bill O'Reilly
Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency
From the bestselling team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard comes Killing Reagan, a page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan that tells the vivid story of his rise to power--and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down....- $34.99
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Author:Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of...- $35.00
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Author:Candice Millard
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt--it is a black, uncharted tributary of the...- $19.99
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Author:Deborah Hopkinson
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus)
Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson illuminates the true stories of Jewish children who fled Nazi Germany, risking everything to escape to safety on the Kindertransport. An NCTE Orbis Pictus recommended book.Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler...- $29.99
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Author:Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" (LITHUB), AND...- $24.99
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Author:Douglas Brinkley
American Moonshot Low Price CD: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
2020 Audie Winner - History/BiographyAs the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the...- $24.99
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Author:Christopher Edmonds
No Surrender CD: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting...- $39.99
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Author:Bret Baier
Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II
From the #1 bestselling author of Three Days in Moscow and anchor of Fox News Channel's Special Report with Bret Baier, a gripping history of the secret meeting that set the stage for victory in World War II--the now-forgotten 1943 Tehran Conference, where Franklin...- $44.99
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Author:Simon Winchester
Pacific Low Price CD: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision o
One of Library Journal's 10 Best Books of 2015Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship...- $19.99
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