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Texas Ranger

The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde

by John Boessenecker
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

The New York Times bestseller! “Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his proper place alongside such fabled lawmen as Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. Here is a grand adventure...

Speakeasy

A Novel

by Alisa Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

A WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ACADEMY RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018! In this literate and action-packed historical thriller, set during World War II, a plucky code-breaker fights to keep a deadly secret as her Bonnie-and-Clyde past threatens to catch up with her. Thirty-year-old Lena Stillman is living...

The Boy Who Went to War

The Story of a Reluctant German Soldier in WWII

by Giles Milton
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011

A powerful and true story of warfare and human survival that exposes a side of World War II that is unknown by many— this is the story of Wolfram Aïchele, a boy whose childhood was stolen by a war in which he had no choice but to fight. Giles Milton has been a writer and historian for many...

Law & Disorder

The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD

by Bruce Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times as high....

Babylon's Ark

The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

by Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007

When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city center and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony entered Baghdad he discovered that full-scale combat and uncontrolled looting had killed nearly all the animals...

The Bible Doesn't Say That

40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings

by Dr. Joel M. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016

The Bible Doesn't Say That explores what the Bible meant before it was misinterpreted over the past 2,000 years. Acclaimed translator and biblical scholar Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the reader through dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In...

The Girl from Purple Mountain

Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America

by May-lee Chai, Winberg Chai
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002

A true story of love, betrayal, and healing, The Girl from Purple Mountain begins with a mystery: The Chai family matriarch, Ruth Mei-en Tsao Chai, dies unexpectedly and her grieving husband discovers that she had secretly arranged to be buried alone-rather than in the shared plots they had purchased...

Defiant

The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, The Women Who Fought for Them, and The One Who Never Returned

by Alvin Townley
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of North Vietnamese guards and interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the POWs developed...

Enduring Vietnam

An American Generation and Its War

by James Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse the...

Here Comes Exterminator!

The Longshot Horse, the Great War, and the Making of an American Hero

by Eliza McGraw
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

The father of the Kentucky Derby called him “the greatest all-around Thoroughbred in American racing history.” Sportswriter Grantland Rice simply called him “the greatest racehorse.” Now Eliza McGraw tells the story of how a gangling, long-shot Kentucky Derby winner named Exterminator became...

Desperate Engagement

How a Little-Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C., and Changed American History

by Marc Leepson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

The Battle of Monocacy, which took place on the blisteringly hot day of July 9, 1864, is one of the Civil War's most significant yet little-known battles. What played out that day in the corn and wheat fields four miles south of Frederick, Maryland., was a full-field engagement between some 12,000...

The Day Dixie Died

The Battle of Atlanta

by Gary Ecelbarger
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010

One of the most dramatic and important battles ever to be waged on American soil, the Battle of Atlanta changed the course of the Civil War and helped decide a presidential election. In the North, a growing peace movement and increasing criticism of President Abraham Lincoln's conduct of the...

Rescue Warriors

The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes

by David Helvarg
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009

Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people. On any given day, "Coasties" respond to 125 distress calls and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than 50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean...

Radioman

An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific

by Carol Edgemon Hipperson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008

Radioman is the biography of Ray Daves, a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and an eyewitness to World War II. It is based on the author's handwritten notes from a series of interviews that began on the eighty-second birthday of the combat veteran and gives a first-person account of the world's...
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