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  • “Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review  Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in…
    In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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    In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an…

    By Erik Larson rating of short cover   ( 96 customer ratings) Crown, May 2011 ISBN: 9780307887955 History, Germany
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  • Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great…
    The Passage of Power
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    The Passage of Power

    By Robert A. Caro Knopf, May 2012 ISBN: 9780307960467 Biography & Memoir, Political
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  • In the last days of old Peking, where anything goes, can a murderer escape justice?Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The…
    Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
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    Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young…

    By Paul French Penguin, April 2012 ISBN: 9781101580387 Modern, 20th Century
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  • A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo…
    Thunderstruck
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    Thunderstruck

    By Erik Larson rating of short cover   ( 5 customer ratings) Broadway, October 2006 ISBN: 9780307351920 Modern, 20th Century
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  • In this magisterial new biography, New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II. From the moment of…
    Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
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    Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern…

    By Sally Bedell Smith Random House, January 2012 ISBN: 9780679643937 Modern, 20th Century
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  • In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary “fasting treatment” of Dr. Linda Burfield…
    Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
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    Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder…

    By Gregg Olsen rating of short cover   ( 14 customer ratings) Broadway, May 2005 ISBN: 9780307238399 Modern, 20th Century
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  • Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees, the…
    Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and a Love Reclaimed

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    Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of…

    By Leslie Maitland Other Press, April 2012 ISBN: 9781590514979 Modern, 20th Century
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  • Here are some of the most courageous missions executed by six-man teams on their own deep behind enemy lines.
    Phantom Warriors: Book I: LRRPs, LRPs, and Rangers in Vietnam
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    Phantom Warriors: Book I: LRRPs, LRPs, and…

    By Gary Linderer Ballantine Books, December 2008 ISBN: 9780307489494 Modern, 20th Century
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  • From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years…
    Paris: The Biography of a City
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    Paris: The Biography of a City

    By Colin Jones Penguin Group US, April 2006 ISBN: 9781440626999 Modern, 20th Century
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  • "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked…
    The Greatest Generation
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    The Greatest Generation

    By Tom Brokaw Random House, February 2000 ISBN: 9780375504624 Modern, 20th Century
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