In a devastated Europe at the end of World War II, the improbable relationship between fallen tyrant Hermann Göring and rising US Army physician Douglas Kelley becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil.
Biography
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Author:El-Hai, JackSummary: - Author:Moulton, MoSummary:
A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights.
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Author:Davis, Steven L., Minutaglio, BillSummary:Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, this book takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy...
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Author:Sherman, William T.Summary:In vigorous, frank, and powerful prose, Sherman reveals his strategic planning for battles such as Bull Run, Shiloh, and Vicksburg and delivers classic lessons--and military philosophies--about this war.
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Author:Lee, J. J.Summary:For years, journalist and amateur tailor JJ Lee tried to ignore the navy suit that hung at the back of his closet — his late father's last suit. When he decides to finally make the suit his own, little does he know he is about to embark...
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Author:Klages, GregorySummary:"How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally...
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- Author:Dionne, N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope)Summary:
A history and biography of Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635 and the early settlement of Canada.
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A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country--but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders.
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Absorbing story about the escape of a small group of prisoners of various nationalities from a soviet labour camp in Siberia in 1941 and details their terrible journey on foot across Asia to safety.
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Author:Raddatz, MarthaSummary:Documents the two-day firefight in Sadr City that began the Iraqi insurgency, during which eight 1st Cavalry Division soldiers were killed and numerous others wounded, an engagement that was vigilantly monitored by their loved ones back...
- Author:Weir, AlisonSummary:
No English monarch had a greater influence on his or her people than Queen Elizabeth I. Yet despite her extremely public life, she closely guarded her secrets, which are finally revealed in this epic biography. The Life of Elizabeth I...
- Author:Fuller, AlexandraSummary:
Colton H. Bryant loves Wyoming and loves life. Mind over matter, he always says--"If you don't mind, it don't matter." And so, like his father and his father's father before him, he gets a dangerous job on the oil rig when he's old...
- Author:Hall, KermitSummary:
Utah State University professor, Kermit L. Hall delivers a course that explores the Supreme Court as a living, breathing institution. Listeners will come to know the court through a thorough study of its most significant decisions.
- Author:Posner, MichaelSummary:
The author draws on dozens of interviews conducted in London, New York, Montreal, and Toronto to present a portrait of novelist, essayist, satirist, and iconoclast Mordecai Richler. His public and private lives are documented in a close...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. But Chapman achieved the notoriety he craved, and wounded the spirit of a generation.
- 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 head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, including...
- Author:Nakazawa, Donna JacksonSummary:
In this book the author, a science journalist explores the autoimmune disorders that plagued her for a decade, curious to know what mind-body strategies might help her, including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture.
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Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:Traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substance.
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