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"From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void, '" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and...
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English
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"Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent...
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Harper Select
Language
English
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"A U.S. naval intelligence agent working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; A Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that will change the world forever"--
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English
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"Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
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1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 22
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xi, 288 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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An analysis of the intertwined careers of the founders of the American republic documents the lives of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Across decades and generation, the Kennedy's have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most storied family, as told by America's most trusted storyteller.
36) Escape
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Broadway Books
Edition
1st ed.
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English
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A woman forced into a plural marriage as a teenager with a man thirty-two years her senior describes the years of psychological abuse she suffered, her decision to escape with her eight children, and her successful battle with the church over custody of her children.
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Documents the experiences of an extraordinary family whose seven sons and neighbors from a Mathews County, Virginia, community served as Merchant Marines and in 1942 defended the coastal United States against a U-boat assault.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache warrior Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent"--
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Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
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p. cm.
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English
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Evaluates the relationship between the two leaders of the ancient world against the backdrop of their time, exploring the facts and mythology surrounding their individual lives and famous love affair as they influence the rise of the Roman Empire.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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pages cm
Language
English
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A dual biography of the first two women flight captains for the Nazis describes how Hanna Reitsch and Melitta Gr�afin von Stauffenberg became pioneering test pilots and were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich.
