From the butchery of the Crater to the election of 1864, this novel resurrects the Civil War's hard reality. Fabled leaders turned for help to rising heroes, while common soldiers paid the price...
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Author: Peters, RalphSummary: -
Author: Greer, BillSummary:Topics in the news as 1872 opened were rigged elections, shootings, attacks on the press, sexual impropriety, reproductive rights, and the chasm between rich and poor, issues that still resonate...
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Author: Robinson, PatrickSummary:After Somali pirates capture two U.S. ships, Mack Bedford and the Navy SEALs' Delta Platoon are tasked with not only rescuing the ships, but also completely obliterating all pirates operating...
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Author: Ross, Steven JosephSummary:The little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
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Author: Yalom, Irvin D.Summary:Bestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye on himself. Not simply a...
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Author: Fleming, E. J.Summary:
The tragic death of thirteen-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for twenty years until the Boston abuse scandal-a string of assaults taking place within the Catholic...
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Author: Kakalios, JamesSummary:In the pulp magazines and comics of the 1950s, it was predicted that the future would be one of gleaming utopias, with flying cars, jetpacks, and robotic personal assistants. Obviously, things...
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Author: Perry, ThomasSummary:
From Thomas Perry, the New York Times bestselling author of the Jane Whitefield series, comes a whip-smart and lethally paced standalone novel, Forty Thieves. Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate...
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Author: Perry, ThomasSummary:To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple driver'...
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Author: Ribowsky, MarkSummary:
A biography of the legendary professional football coach and strategist. After playing with the AAFC Yankees and NFL Giants, then as defensive coach of the Giants, Landry spent thirty years as...
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Author: Bruen, Ken, Starr, JasonSummary:Five valuable lessons: don't hire a psychopath to kill your wife, don't use Drano to get rid of a body, hotel room doors aren't very secure, a wig isn't much of a disguise, and secrets can kill....
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Author: Bruen, Ken, Starr, JasonSummary:When we last saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking, and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for...
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Author: Fife, BruceSummary:For years, The Coconut Oil Miracle has been a reliable guide for men and women alike. Now in its fifth edition, this revised and updated version has even more information on the benefits of...
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Author: Almond, SteveSummary:In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond...
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Author: McFate, SeanSummary:
Returning to DC, Tom Locke discovers that a civil war has fractured Apollo Outcomes, his former employer. A division has splintered off, led by an ambitious, unprincipled former colleague. But...