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by Mary Renault
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013

An “intriguing and invaluable” biography of Alexander the Great by the novelist whose fiction redefined Ancient Greece (The New York Times). Acclaimed writer Mary Renault is widely known for her provocative historical novels of Alexander the Great and his lovers. But she also authored this...
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12, 20 & 5

A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

by John A. Parrish, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor’s year behind the frontlines in Vietnam. Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting,...
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Chiang Kai-Shek

An Unauthorized Biography

by Emily Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015

An in-depth biography of the towering 20th-century Chinese military and political figure who led the government, first on the mainland and then in exile in Taiwan, from the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China when he was head of state In 1911, 24-year-old Chiang Kai-shek was...
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by Manfred Weidhorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014

Robert E. Lee's life has been regarded as one of great honor and esteem and he has been a man admired for his loyalty, patriotism, and conduct as not only an American, but also a Virginian. And when he made the decision to turn down Lincoln's offer to command a large army of Union Soldiers in the...
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Dee Brown on the Civil War

Grierson's Raid, The Bold Cavaliers, and The Galvanized Yankees

by Dee Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

Three true tales of Civil War combat, as recounted by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. The acclaimed historian of the American West turns his attention to the country’s bloody civil conflict, chronicling the exploits of extraordinary soldiers who...
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Elizabeth Is Missing

One of the Eighteenth Century's Greatest Mysteries—Solved!

by Lillian de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

The true story of the eighteenth-century English maidservant at the center of a fascinating criminal mystery. On New Year’s Day, 1753, Elizabeth Canning disappeared. An eighteen-year-old girl, she was unremarkable in every respect, from her appearance to her disposition, but she was about...
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The Heir of Douglas

The Scandal That Rocked Eighteenth-Century England

by Lillian de la Torre
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

A sensational account of the Lady Jane Douglas scandal: A penniless Frenchman claimed a title and turned eighteenth-century England upside down. In 1748, Scottish noblewoman Lady Jane Douglas gave birth to twin boys in Paris. Although she and one of the boys died in poverty five years later,...
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SAS Ghost Patrol

The Ultra-Secret Unit That Posed as Nazi Stormtroopers

by Damien Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018

An “amazing” account of Britain’s most audacious act of subterfuge in WWII: an undercover raid of Rommel’s stronghold in Tobruk (The Daily Mirror). On a scorching September day in 1942, the Special Air Service (SAS), a special forces unit of the British Army, pulled off one of the most...
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Had She But Known

A Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Charlotte MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

Before Agatha Christie, there was America’s Mistress of Mystery. This is the story of her life and creative legacy, from the butler who did it to Batman. In the decades since her death in 1958, master storyteller Mary Roberts Rinehart has often been compared to Agatha Christie. But while...
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The King Maker

The Man Who Saved George VI

by Geordie Greig
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

“A treasure trove that throws new and entertaining light” on the friendship between the WWII-era king and the man who inspired The King’s Speech (The Times, London). Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician,...
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Defy All the Devils

America's First Kidnapping for Ransom

by Norman Zierold
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

The “fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful” account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and the desperate manhunt to find him (The New York Times Book Review). On July 1, 1874, four-year-old Charley Ross and his older brother, Walter, were playing in front of their stately Philadelphia...
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Becoming a Man

Half a Life Story

by Paul Monette
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. “One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life” (LA Weekly). Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving . . . and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid...
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Don't Panic

Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Neil Gaiman, David K. Dickson, M.J. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s “hilarious . . . idiosyncratic . . . delightful” and definitive companion to a global phenomenon (Publishers Weekly). Douglas Adams’s “six-part trilogy,” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding...
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Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume One

Blue Thirst, Sicilian Carousel, and Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

by Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018

Travel writing “as luminous as the Mediterranean air” from the acclaimed author of the Alexandria Quartet, who is featured in PBS’s The Durrells in Corfu (Time). Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt...
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