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The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
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Douglas Brinkley
Award-winning historian Brinkley examines the life and achievements of America's Naturalist President. The author argues that it was Theodore Roosevelt--by setting aside 230 million acres of Wild America for posterity--who turned conservationism into a universal endeavor.
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
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David McCullough
Popular historian David McCullough tells the story of the building of the Panama Canal, which connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. He relates the engineering, the politics, and the human drama. THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS won a National Book Award in history.
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
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John M Barry
Victims of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 suffered horrifying effects, including bleeding from the ears and nose, and they usually died. It killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages did in a century. In the United States, where there weren't enough coffins to house the increasing numbers of bodies, nearly seven times ...
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Razor's Edge
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W Somerset Maugham
Maugham traces the development of six friendships in Paris and London, evoking the sense of loss, despair, and unmoored personalities just after wartime.
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Theodore Rex
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Edmund Morris
The second entry in Morris's projected three-volume life of Theodore Roosevelt focuses on the presidential years 1901 through early 1909. Impeccably researched and beautifully composed, Morris's book provides what is arguably the best consideration of Roosevelt's presidency ever penned. Illustrations.
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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Caroline Alexander
In August 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail aboard the "Endurance" bound for the South Atlantic. Their goal was to be the first men to cross Antarctica. Caroline Alexander tells the story of Shackleton's expedition accompanied by the photographs of Australian Frank Hurley.
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Erik Larson
The large audience that drove "The Perfect Storm" high on national bestseller lists is sure to welcome this superb narrative of the extreme hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, leaving at least 8,000 dead in its wake. An unforgettable story of the conflict between human hubris and the last great uncontrollable force, "Isaac's Storm" ...
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A Long Long Way
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Sebastian Barry
Readers meet Willie Dunne when he is still a gifted boy growing up in Dublin and follow him--through a diary and letters home--into battle during World War II where he must shoulder the unending internal damages of the war along with the hatred of his own countrymen for fighting for Britain.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Erich Maria Remarque
Remarque's famous novel about a soldier's experiences in World War I.
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Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Betty Smith
An unforgettable novel about a young girl's growing up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn at the turn of the century.
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Inside the Titanic
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Ken Marschall, Hugh Brewster
This volume features cut-away illustrations revealing the inside of the liner "Titanic". Readers are invited to explore every deck and feature of the legendary liner, including the Grand Staircase, the huge dining saloon and the Turkish baths. A four-page fold-out section provides an overview of the "floating city" which was home to over 2000 ...
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The Coming of the Third Reich
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Richard J Evans
This study of Hitler's rise to power in Germany analyzes that country's demise from Europe's most modern and progressive state, in 1900, to one that, by 1930, was ready to choose a man like Hitler to lead them. This is the first volume in a projected three-volume history of Nazi Germany.
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To the Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf
In TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (1927) Virginia Woolf chooses a three-part structure and an elegiac, ode-like form to reveal the complexities of family politics. The autobiographical plot--which Woolf claimed finally "laid to rest" her conflicted feelings about her parents--begins in St. Ives, where Woolf's family, the Stephens, spent summers when she was a ...
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To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War
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Jeff Shaara
In this spellbinding new novel, the acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling author of "Rise to Rebellion" turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901: Arizona Territories
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Nancy E Turner
Sarah Agnes Prine was a real-life pioneer in the wild west of the early 1800s. Her great-granddaughter, author Turner, discovered Sarah's diaries from that time and decided use them as the basis for a historical novel. This is the fictionalized diary of Sarah's life, which chronicles her settlement, hardships, and romances on the frontier.
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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Karen Abbott
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, this book presents a vivid snapshot of Americas journey from Victorian-era propriety to 20th-century modernity.
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The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf
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Mark Frost
Pitting the greatest player of his day against the young upstart who would defeat him, this account of the 1913 U.S. Open examines how the event would influence golf for generations to come.
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American Progressivism: A Reader
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Ronald J Pestritto (Editor), William J Atto (Editor)
This collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism's role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto provide insight into each figure's influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing each entry with the context within which the author ...
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Birds Without Wings
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Louis de Bernieres
Louis de Bernières's epic novel encompasses the history of Turkey from the late 19th century to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the 1920s. Narrated by a variety of voices (including a potter, a beautiful young woman in love with a goatherd, and a man whose adulterous wife is stoned to death), BIRDS WITHOUT ...
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
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Donald Worster
"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is ...
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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
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Robert K Massie
In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. This is a book about leadership and command, bravery and timidity, genius and folly.
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A Promise for Ellie
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Lauraine Snelling
Ellie Wold can't wait to graduate from high school. She and Andrew Bjorklund have been waiting to get married since...well, since forever, and in June they will finally wed. When Andrew announces they have to postpone the wedding, she's disappointed but takes it in stride--there must be a good reason, or Andrew's pa wouldn't ask it of them. But ...
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Ape Who Guards the Balance
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Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody and family are on a new expedition to the Valley of the Kings at the beginning of the 1907 archaeological season. Soon, Amelia will need all her remarkable skills of detection and deduction to untangle a web woven of criminals and cults, stolen treasures and fallen women--all the while under the unblinking eye of a ruthless, ...
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Falcon at the Portal
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Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody and her family travel to Egypt for their annual dig. Her niece's Egyptian husband is accused of selling ancient artefacts that are actually exquisite fakes, and then the body of an American is found at the botton of the family's excavation shaft. It becomes clear that the land of the pharoahs harbours many secrets.
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The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches
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Harry Patch, Richard Van Emden
Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is now 108 years old and one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but ...
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