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Crime beat
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Michael Connelly |
Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yello… |
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The tide of empire
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Michael Golay |
A vivid tableau of the American conquest of the Pacific Coast "With Broughton's expedition, the Americans and the British had posted competing claims to a vast expanse of the Pacific Northwest. Th… |
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Columbine
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David Cullen |
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Thei… |
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Unbound
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Dean King |
In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic… |
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The Confessions of Saint Augustine
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Edward Bouverie Pusey |
The CONFESSIONS is a history of Saint Augustine's fierce struggle to overcome his evil ways, his attempts to find faith, and his ultimate conversion to Christianity. The CONFESSIONS contitutes perha… |
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Hard Call
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John McCain |
At some point in our lives, we all face tough decisions and have to make that hard call. In this remarkable book, Senator McCain and Mark Salter use experiences of both extraordinary people and peopl… |
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The family memorial
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Payne Kenyon Kilbourne |
This book is a history of the Kilbourn family from 1635 to 1845. It documents the various branches of the family: those who remained in New England, those who were Tories and emigrated to Canada duri… |
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Flyboys
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James Bradley |
This acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. … |
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Titanic's last secrets
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Bradford Matsen |
After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of hist… |
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The spy next door
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Ann Blackman,Elaine Shannon |
Two veteran "Time" magazine reporters present the shocking, fascinating account of one of the greatest espionage scandals of our time--the story of Robert Hanssen, one of the most mysterious traitors… |
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Great tales from English history
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Robert Lacey |
With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England--from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughm… |
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The Medici giraffe
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Marina Belozerskaya |
A fascinating exploration, spanning two thousand years, ofthe central role exotic animals have played in war, diplomacy, and thepomp of rulers and luminaries. |
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The Native American world
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Donna Hightower-Langston |
* Over 300 entries covering major tribes, languages, prominent individuals, and important historical events * Alphabetized for easy use * More than 100 illustrations, including period photos, line … |
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The children of Willesden Lane
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Mona Golabek |
Based on the true story of her mother, Mona Golabek describes the inspirational story of Lisa Jura Golabek's escape from Nazi-controlled Austria to England on the famed Kindertransport. Jewish music… |
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Sudden Sea
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R.A. Scotti |
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaste… |
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Abraham's Children
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Jon Entine |
Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now in ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN bestselling autho… |
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Mysterious Sahara
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Byron Khun De Prorok |
In Mysterious Sahara Prorok, a popular archeologist and adventurer of the time, describes his 1925-28 expeditions into north Africa. He goes south from Algeria, across the Sahara, and into the mounta… |
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The Soldier's Story
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Warren Lee Goss |
During the Civil War tens of thousands of soldiers died in prisons. In Andersonville Prison Pen alone over 11,000 soldiers of the 33,000 died of starvation, exposure and consumption or other disease… |
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What was asked of us
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Trish Wood,Bobby Muller |
"A visceral account of the war . . . honest, agenda-free, and chilling." -New York Times Book ReviewThe Iraq war officially began on March 20, 2003, and since then more than one million young Amer… |
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Rule Number Two
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Heidi Squier Kraft |
When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq . A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war… |
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