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The Last Days of Stalin
A scholarly, absorbing narrative of Stalin's last days and the turbulent wake of his dictatorship. Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected US pres...Book Details
Author : Rubenstein, Joshua
Publish : May 31, 2016
Publisher : Yale University Press
The Last Days of Stalin
The Last Dickens
n his most enthralling novel yet, the critically acclaimed author Matthew Pearl reopens one of literary history’s greatest mysteries. The Last Dickens is a tale filled with the dazzling twists and turns, the unerring period details, and the meticulous research that thrilled readers of the bestsell...Book Details
Author : Pearl, Matthew
Publish : March 24, 2009
Publisher : Random House (NY)
The Last Dickens
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West
A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn's definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really were and what the shootout was all about. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in ...Book Details
Author : Guinn, Jeff
Publish : May 17, 2011
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral–And How It Changed The American West
The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's heroism and courage in World War II. They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experienced attack unit in the United States Army. In December 1944, Lt. Col. James Rudder's 2nd B...Book Details
Author : Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom
Publish : November 1, 2022
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
The Last Punisher - A Seal Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
The Last Punisher is a “thoughtful, funny, and raw…always compelling” (Bing West, New York Times bestselling author of No True Glory) first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the bold story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team THREE, the warrior...Book Details
Author : Lacz, Kevin
Publish : July 12, 2016
Publisher : Threshold Editions
The Last Punisher: A SEAL Team Three Sniper’s True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
For readers of Rinker Buck, Bill Bryson, and Larry McMurtry, The Last Ride of the Pony Express boldly illuminates America's mysterious and complex connection to the iconic Pony Express. With two horses, cowboy and journalist Will Grant takes us on an epic and authentic horseback journey into the mod...Book Details
Author : Grant, Will
Publish : June 6, 2023
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
The Last Stand of Fox Company
November 1950, the Korean Peninsula: After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for s...Book Details
Author : Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom
Publish : January 6, 2009
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing out $13 billion in annual revenue. Yet its current dominance has obscured how p...Book Details
Author : Eisenberg, John
Publish : October 9, 2018
Publisher : Basic Books
The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini. Say his name and a number of things come to mind. Escapes. Illusions. Magic. Chains. Safes. Live burials. Close to a century after his death, nearly every person in America knows his name from a young age, capturing their imaginations with his death-defying stunts and daring acts. He ...Book Details
Author : Posnanski, Joe
Publish : October 22, 2019
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
The Lincoln Highway
The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he h...Book Details
Author : Towles, Amor
Publish : October 5, 2021
Publisher : Viking
The Lincoln Highway
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug...Book Details
Author : Cantu, Francisco
Publish : February 6, 2018
Publisher : Riverhead Books
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
The Long Road to Antietam
In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy, one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation: an unprecedented use of...Book Details
Author : Slotkin, Richard
Publish : July 16, 2012
Publisher : Liveright
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution
The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape
This is the real story behind "The Great Escape" of World War II popularized in the now-classic movie starring Steve McQueen and James Garner. First published in 1990 and based on sources not available for Paul Brickhill's earlier work, the book tells how on the night of March 24, 1944, seventy-six ...Book Details
Author : Burgess, Alan
Publish : January 31. 1990
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II’s Great Escape
The Lost Airman - A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
Bronx-born top turret-gunner Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second mission when he was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the B-24 Liberator known as “Harmful Lil Armful” who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground. After fleeing the wreck, Arthur knocked on the door of a...Book Details
Author : Meyerowitz, Seth
Publish : January 19, 2016
Publisher : Berkley
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as “an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.” In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what s...Book Details
Author : Fairbanks, Amanda M
Publish : May 25, 2021
Publisher : Gallery Books
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind
The Lost City of Z - A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable ...Book Details
Author : Grann, David
Publish : February 24, 2009
Publisher : Doubleday/Random House (NY)
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lupus Book - A Guide for Patients and Their Families
The symptoms are puzzling, intermittent, and frequently seem unrelated: mysterious rashes, sore joints, fatigue, headaches. It can take years to properly diagnose, often leaving its victims suffering not only from the disease, but from the uncertainty about whether they have the disease and from th...Book Details
Author : Wallace, Daniel J, MD
Publish : December 21, 1995
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
The Lupus Book: A Guide for Patients and Their Families
The Madman and the Assassin the strange life of Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth
Union cavalryman Boston Corbett became a national celebrity after killing John Wilkes Booth, but as details of his odd personality became known, he also became the object of derision. Over time, he was largely forgotten to history, a minor character in the final act of Booth’s tumultuous life. And...Book Details
Author : Martelle, Scott
Publish : April 1, 2015
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the Man Who Killed John Wilkes Booth
The Man in the Ice
The story of the amazing discovery of a man frozen in the Alpine ice, told by the leader of the international team of scientists who investigated the find. A classic of scientific discovery that reveals to us the fullest picture yet of Neolithic man, our ancestor....Book Details
Author : Spindler, Konrad
Publish : February 7, 1995
Publisher : Harmony Books (NYC)
The Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5000-year-old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age
The man of numbers : Fibonacci's arithmetic revolution
In 1202, a 32-year old Italian finished one of the most influential books of all time, which introduced modern arithmetic to Western Europe. Devised in India in the 7th and 8th centuries and brought to North Africa by Muslim traders, the Hindu-Arabic system helped transform the West into the dominan...Book Details
Author : Devlin, Keith J
Publish : July 5, 2011
Publisher : Walker Books
The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to a POW work camp. He was put to work every day in a German factory, where he labored alongside Jewish prisoners from a nearby camp called Auschwitz. The stories they told him were horrifying. Eventuall...Book Details
Author : Avery, Denis and Broomby, Rob
Publish : March 1, 2011
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington - Robert E Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
The riveting true story of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington's family but turned by war against Washington's crowning achievement, the Union. On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy of George Washington and the hopes of leaders across...Book Details
Author : Horn, Jonathan
Publish : January 6, 2015
Publisher : Scribner
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
The Mathews Men - Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-Boats
“The German U-Boat war against American merchant men was deadly and dramatic—in World War II, the U.S. Merchant Marine had twice the fatality rate of the U.S. Navy. William Geroux has unearthed a fascinating tale of one small coastal town caught in the thick of the fight, and he tells it with a ...Book Details
Author : Geroux, William
Publish : April 19, 2016
Publisher : Viking
The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler’s U-boats
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885 In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was...Book Details
Author : Hollandsworth, Skip
Publish : April 5, 2016
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James “Jubilee Jim” Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad,...Book Details
Author : Brands, H W
Publish : May 31, 2011
Publisher : Anchor
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
The Nazi Titanic
Built in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she was stripped down for use as a floating barracks and troop transport. Later, during the war, Hitler...Book Details
Author : Watson, Robert P
Publish : April 26, 2016
Publisher : Da Capo Press
The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolitics are mapping our future The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a tim...Book Details
Author : Yergin, Daniel
Publish : September 14, 2021
Publisher : Penguin Books
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The Operators
In June 2010, Michael Hastings's extraordinary, uncensored "Rolling Stone "article, "The Runaway General," shocked the world and set off a series of events that culminated in the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal. Now, THE OPERATORS will lead us even deeper into the war, its politics, and it...Book Details
Author : Hastings, Michael
Publish : December 6, 2011
Publisher : Little, Brown & Company
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan
The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, this trail offered desert and mountain hideouts to bandits and cowboys. The almost ina...Book Details
Author : Kelly, Charles
Publish : May 1, 1996
Publisher : Bison Books
The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor
At 5:58 AM on October 3rd, 2009, Combat Outpost Keating, located in frighteningly vulnerable terrain in Afghanistan just 14 miles from the Pakistani border, was viciously attacked. Though the 53 Americans there prevailed against nearly 400 Taliban fighters, their casualties made it the deadliest fig...Book Details
Author : Tapper, Jake
Publish : October 22, 2013
Publisher : Back Bay Books
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Paci...Book Details
Author : McCullough, David
Publish : June 1, 2004
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Perfect Horse - The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable true story of the valiant rescue of priceless pedigree horses in the last days of World War II. As the Russians closed in on Hitler from the east and the Allies attacked from the west, American soldiers di...Book Details
Author : Letts, Elizabeth
Publish : August 23, 2016
Publisher : Ballantine Books
The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail
Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this rivetin...Book Details
Author : Morris, Larry E
Publish : January 16, 2013
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail
The Pinellas Puzzle: A History of Tierra Verde, Mullet Key, and the New Uplands of the Lower Boca Ciega Bay
The Pinellas Puzzle tells the history of the islands of Florida's lower Boca Ciega Bay. It also examines the political and social forces that led to the pumping of 500 acres of residential uplands into the middle of the bay, and the transformation of two groups of its islands into an upscale residen...Book Details
Author : Whelan, Dennis
Publish : June 11, 2020
The Pinellas Puzzle: A History of Tierra Verde, Mullet Key, and the New Uplands of the Lower Boca Ciega Bay
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country. As ...Book Details
Author : McCullough, David
Publish : May 7, 2019
Publisher : Simon Schuster
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
The Pirate Coast - Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines and the Secret Mission of 1805
In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who at the last moment grew wary of "intermeddling" in a fo...Book Details
Author : Zacks, Richard
Publish : June 1, 2005
Publisher : Hyperion
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They're a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives. Drawing on research in soci...Book Details
Author : Pink, Daniel H
Publish : February 1, 2022
Publisher : Riverhead Books
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
The Presiden'ts War - Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them
For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s reelection bi...Book Details
Author : DeRose, Chris
Publish : June 17, 2014
Publisher : Lyons Press
The Presidents’ War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them
The Professor and the Madman - A tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, wa...Book Details
Author : Winchester, Simon
Publish : 2005
Publisher : Harper Perennial
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shine...Book Details
Author : Moore, Kate
Publish : May 2, 2017
Publisher : Sourcebooks
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world. In the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Van...Book Details
Author : Woodard, Colin
Publish : May 7, 2007
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The Revenant
Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker.But when a scouting mission puts Glass face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously ma...Book Details
Author : Punke, Michael
Publish : January 6, 2015
Publisher : Picador
The Revenant
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
Joe Trippi's campaign for Howard Dean marked a quantum leap in how the Internet could be used to shake up politics and empower Americans歯w Trippi reveals how technology can harness the power of the people in every sector. When Joe Trippi signed on to manage Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign...Book Details
Author : Trippi, Joe
Publish : July 6, 2004
Publisher : William Morrow
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory...Book Details
Author : Schiff, Stacy
Publish : October 25, 2022
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days
The Richmond campaign of April-July 1862 ranks as one of the most important military operations of the first years of the American Civil War. Key political, diplomatic, social, and military issues were at stake as Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan faced off on the peninsula between the York and ...Book Details
Author : Gallagher, Gary W
Publish : September 18, 2000
Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
The Richmond Campaign of 1862: The Peninsula and the Seven Days
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before. In this captivating narrative (enli...Book Details
Author : Brusatte, Stephen
Publish : April 24, 2018
Publisher : William Morrow
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
River Doubt
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 Amazon that snakes t...Book Details
Author : Millard, Candice
Publish : October 10, 2006
Publisher : Anchor Books
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
The Rush America's Fevered Quest for Fortune 1848-1853
In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the first time ever-t...Book Details
Author : Dolnick, Edward
Publish : August 12, 2014
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
The Rush: America’s Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston's Lost Boys
Between 1971 and 1973, more than twenty-seven teenage boys disappeared from idyllic, tree-lined neighborhoods in Houston. This is the true story of how one dedicated forensic scientist finally identified the victims of the "Candy Man," one of America's most prolific serial killers. Houston, Texas...Book Details
Author : Olsen, Lise
Publish : April 1, 2025
Publisher : Random House
The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys
The Secret Destiny of America
From the author of the landmark Secret Teachings of All Ages comes two classic works on the mysterious origins and unique mission of America: The Secret Destiny of America and America's Assignment with Destiny. Focusing on often-forgotten moments in history, Manley P. Hall proposes that there was...Book Details
Author : Hall, Manly P
Publish : October 1, 2008
Publisher : Tarcherperigee
The Secret Destiny of America
The Secret Rescue
When 26 Army nurses and medics-part of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron-boarded a cargo plane for transport in November 1943, they never anticipated the crash landing in Nazi-occupied Albania that would lead to their months-long struggle for survival. A drama that captured the att...Book Details
Author : Lineberry, Cate
Publish : May 7, 2013
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines
The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga
Civil War enthusiasts will welcome this new volume of Peter Cozzens's highly praised works on the Civil War in the West. The battles around Chattanooga in the late fall of 1863 were among the most decisive of the Civil War, opening the Deep South to the Union and setting the stage for the Atlanta ca...Book Details
Author : Cozzens, Peter
Publish : September 1, 1994
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga
The Silence of Murder
Seventeen-year-old Hope Long's life revolves around her brother Jeremy. So when Jeremy is accused of killing the town's beloved baseball coach, Hope's world begins to unravel. Everyone is convinced Jeremy did it, and since he hasn't spoken a word in 9 years, he's unable to defend himself. Their lawy...Book Details
Author : Mackall, Dandi Daley
Publish : October 11, 2011
Publisher : Knopf Books
The Silence of Murder
The Sixth Extinction
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impac...Book Details
Author : Kolbert, Elizabeth
Publish : February 11, 2014
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Smugglers Ghost
Ride along with smugglers as they buy boatloads of marijuana in Jamaica and spirit them into Florida. They elude determined cops, corrupt some others, make a pile of money. And some live to tell the tale. And that's just one facet of this compelling, first-person true story of the man who came to be...Book Details
Author : Lamb, Steve & Marcou, Diane
Publish : January 7, 2015
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
The Smuggler’s Ghost: When Marijuana Turned a Florida Teen Into a Millionaire Fugitive
The Spirit to Soar: The True Story of Former Orphan & POW, Lt. Col. Barry B. Bridger US Air Force (Ret)
The day after Lt. Colonel Barry Bridger retired from a distinguished military career in 1984, he put on a suit and went to work for a financial services company. Fortuitously, his instructor in those classes was Jim Petersen, PhD, a trainer and manager in the investment and financial services ind...Book Details
Author : Petersen, Jim
Publish : February 8, 2022
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
The Spirit to Soar: The True Story of Former Orphan & POW, Lt. Col. Barry B. Bridger US Air Force (Ret)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably g...Book Details
Author : Summerscale, Kate
Publish : April 27, 2020
Publisher : Walker & Company
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
The Swamp
The Swamp is the story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, takes readers on a journey from the ...Book Details
Author : Grunwald, Michael
Publish : March 27, 2007
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
The Taking of K-129
In late February of 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of three ballistic missiles with enough nuclear material to create an explosion 50 times greater than Hiroshima, disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. The Soviet Navy used ships, subs, and planes in an enormous search of open ocean, in sto...Book Details
Author : Dean, Josh
Publish : September 5, 2017
Publisher : Amberley Publishing
The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History
The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Front
The true story of the Taliban’s remarkable resurgence in Pakistan and war-torn Afghanistan more than a decade after the U.S. military’s post-9/11 incursion In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who ha...Book Details
Author : Abbas, Hassan
Publish : June 24, 2014
Publisher : Yale University Press
The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier

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