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Those Who Save Us
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Jenna Blum
A professor of German history begins a long journey back into a past she has pushed aside.
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The Secret Scripture
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Sebastian Barry
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told ...
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Douglas A Blackmon
Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers.
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Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
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Jeff Guinn
Bestselling author Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of Bonnie and Clyde--two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more important, fame.
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Dreamers of the Day
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Mary Doria Russell
Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates modern headlines. As enlightening as it is entertaining, "Dreamers of the Day" is a memorable, passionately written novel.
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Catch-22
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Joseph L Heller (Preface by)
Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, ...
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
This intimate biography of Joseph Stalin is also a group portrait of Stalin and those around him during his 30-year rule of the Soviet Union--including Beria, Molotov, Stalin's wife, Nadya, and others in his court. It is thick with details of everyday life, and it is this detail that demythologizes the Soviet dictator, and which reveals his ...
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Every Man Dies Alone
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Hans Fallada, Michael Hofmann (Translator), Geoff Wilkes (Afterword by)
This never-before-translated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
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The Sacrifice
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Beverly Lewis
Abram's Daughters book 3, the sequel to the bestselling The Betrayal. This powerful family saga features four Amish courting-age sisters growing up in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, beginning in the 1940s. Life in Gobbler's Knob was all Leah Ebersol ever wanted until her older sister Sadie abandoned faith and family, leaving Leah no choice but to ...
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War and Remembrance
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Herman Wouk
This novel continues the story begun in "The Winds of War", following the dispersed lives of the Henry clan from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's second full-length novel, published in 1929, calls on his own experiences during World War I, when he worked for the Red Cross in Italy, was wounded after only six weeks on duty, and recuperated in a hospital in Milan, where he had a romance with a nurse. The blend of fact and imagination in A FAREWELL TO ARMS, however, is artful; ...
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Edith Wharton
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Hermione Lee
The name 'Edith Wharton' conjures up 'Gilded Age' New York, in all its snobbery and ruthlessness - the world of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth". But this definitive biography by Hermione Lee overturns the stereotype. This Edith Wharton is not the genteel, nostalgic chronicler of a vanished age but a fiercely modern woman, writing ...
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
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Bryan Burrough
Journalist Bryan Burrough, grandson of an FBI agent, details the spread of both a new type of crime and a new type of crime-catcher in the early 1930s. The socioeconomic conditions in the U.S. during the Great Depression facilitated the rise in flashy, bloody crime sprees across state lines, committed by limelight-seeking perpetrators such as ...
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Betsy-Tacy and Tib
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Maud Hart Lovelace
The story of three best friends growing up in America at the turn of the century. The adventures in this book take place during the year that the girls are 8 years old.
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Letters to a Young Poet
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ...
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The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
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Professor Stephen E Ambrose
Historian Ambrose evokes what it was like to be in a B-24 as pilot, gunner, bombardier, or navigator, as these planes flew missions over German territory during World War II. He chronicles their training and assesses their contribution to the Allied victory--which was often at great cost to these freedom-loving men who made a difference. Much of ...
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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
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Maud Hart Lovelace
The continuing story of Betsy, Tacy, and Tib--three friends growing up in America at the turn of the century. Now almost 10, the girls have just learned that a Queen of Summer is going to be crowned for their neighborhood. In order to gather enough votes to ensure that Tib will be named Queen, the girls venture into an unfamiliar neighborhood- ...
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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Ron Chernow
A biography of the famed American industrialist and benefactor. Widely reviled during his lifetime for his rapacious business practices, Rockefeller amassed the greatest fortune of his times and eventually became as adept at giving away funds as he was at making them.
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Angelas Ashes
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Frank McCourt
After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about it. ANGELA'S ASHES traces the tortuous path of his life from his days in abysmal poverty in Limerick ...
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Secret Honor
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W E B Griffin
This installment in W.E.B. Griffin's best-selling historical thriller series pits World War II fighter pilot Cletus Howell Frade against the OSS and their search for a father/son team of assassins.
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The Last Town on Earth
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Thomas Mullen
Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced--the 1918 flu epidemic--Mullen's powerful, sweeping first novel is a tale of morality in a time of upheaval.
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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David M Kennedy
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, ...
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Corelli's Mandolin
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Louis de Bernieres
Dr. Iannis and his daughter, Pelagia, live on the idyllic Greek island of Cephallonia in the years before World War II. Pelagia falls in love with Mandras, a fisherman, but when Italy attacks Greece in 1940, Mandras goes to war, and the villagers' quiet lives are changed forever. When an Italian officer, Corelli, is billeted with Dr. Iannis, he ...
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The Runner
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Christopher Reich
At the end of WWII Erich Seyss, former SS officer and Olympic sprinter, known as the 'White Lion', uses his skills as a trained killer and escapes from the American POW camp holding him. He finds refuge with a shadowy organisation of former Nazis who plan to use his expertise in a breathtaking plot - a conspiracy that could change the destiny of ...
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Power of One
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Bryce Courtenay
No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world.
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