Heinrich Himmler Biography: The Greatest Betrayal in History

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  • It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!

    • ASIN: 0578448831
    • ISBN: 0578448831
    • Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie

    "It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you. "Dan Brown, Author of Reunion Alabama, 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Vio... [Read More]

  • Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

    • ASIN: 038549565X
    • ISBN: 038549565X
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    “The greatest World War II story never told” (Esquire)—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivors of the Bataan Death March. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp... [Read More]

  • We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01FRSZAUO
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is t... [Read More]

  • Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy

    • UPC: 884203109865
    • ASIN: 159921072X
    • ISBN: 159921072X
    • Brand: Lyons Press
    • Manufacturer: Lyons Press

    Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe. She was assigned to France, where she helped the Resistance movement, escaped prisoners of war, and American Allied paratroopers. By 1942 she ... [Read More]

  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: B072BLVM83
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

    • ASIN: 1476794057
    • ISBN: 1476794057
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail” (The Wall Street Journal), the “intimate and sweeping” (Raleigh News & Observer) untold, true story behind the Biltmore Estate—the largest, grandest private residence in North America, which has seen more than 120 years of history pass by its front door.The story o... [Read More]

  • Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)

    • ASIN: 1452140030
    • ISBN: 1452140030
    • Brand: Chronicle
    • Size: N/A
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

    A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller! — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident—unexplained violent... [Read More]

  • Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

    • ASIN: 0615835600
    • ISBN: 0615835600
    • Manufacturer: K.L Randis

    Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call to social services about the escalating brutality in her home.When they jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and jus... [Read More]

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    • ASIN: 1101912375
    • ISBN: 1101912375
    • Brand: VINTAGE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South ... [Read More]

  • Robin

    • ASIN: 1627794247
    • ISBN: 1627794247
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

  • The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

    • ASIN: B01G1K1RTA
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

    • ASIN: 0062218832
    • ISBN: 0062218832
    • Brand: Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    #1 International BestsellerRegina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, former New York State official, and foster youth activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive... [Read More]

  • Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times

    • ASIN: 0307409600
    • ISBN: 9780307409607
    • Brand: Crown
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders a... [Read More]

  • The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II

    • UPC: 783324820270
    • ASIN: 0451224957
    • ISBN: 0451224957
    • Brand: Nal Caliber
    • Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber

    The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian farmers and peasants riske... [Read More]

  • The Life We Bury

    • ASIN: B00JTA9Z7G
    • Manufacturer: Seventh Street Books

    A USA Today bestseller and book club favorite! College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and ... [Read More]

  • All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson

    • ASIN: 0062408852
    • ISBN: 0062408852
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age.Devastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered and clean-cut, Rock Hudson was the ultimate movie star. The embodiment of romantic masculinity in American film throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s, Hudson reigned su... [Read More]

  • Then She Was Gone: A Novel

    • ASIN: B074MDD3H6
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist—Top 5 Best Mystery & Thriller * A Suspense Magazine “Best of 2018” Thriller/Suspense Pick “An acutely observed family drama with bone-chilling suspense.” —People “Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are ... [Read More]

  • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

    • ASIN: 0767929713
    • ISBN: 0767929713
    • Brand: Candice Millard
    • Manufacturer: Anchor Books

    A Booklist Notable Book of 2012The extraordinary New York Times bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard.   James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected p... [Read More]

  • That Month in Tuscany

    • ASIN: 0997341521
    • ISBN: 0997341521
    • Manufacturer: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC

    That Month in Tuscany . . .Ren Sawyer and Lizzy Harper live completely different lives. He’s a rock star with a secret he can no longer live with. She’s a regular person whose husband stood her up for a long planned anniversary trip. On a flight across the Atlantic headed for Italy, a drunken pity party and untimely turbulence literally drop Li... [Read More]

  • Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

    • ASIN: B07SBRFVNH
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis's storied career, from wide-ranging leadership ro... [Read More]

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