United States

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  • Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures....
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  • Jeff Guinn delivers the definitive portrait of Bonnie and Clyde. These media-savvy outlaws appealed to America's Depression-era hunger for swash­buckling characters....
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  • This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time....
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  • This book conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtaking immediacy and stunning detail....
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  • One of the most feared Chicago mobsters, Sam Giancana, clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer....

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  • Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation....
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  • Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine, charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific....
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  • Recruited by the US Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than 10,000 women served as codebreakers during World War II....
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  • A compilation of rare works on the untold history and destiny of America by acclaimed occult writer Manly P. Hall....

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  • In this gritty New York Times best-seller, the true story of a crooked deal between the FBI and the Irish Mob is exposed....
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  • Now with a chapter on the chaos in the Trump administration, The New York Times best-selling, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country....

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  • Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany....
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  • An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes listeners on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places - and deep into the dark side of our history....
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  • The fatherless Moody family moves from Colorado to Massachusetts in 1912, as Ralph enters his teen years....
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  • The little-known story of how a young Wyatt Earp, aided by his brothers, defeated the Cowboys, the Old West’s biggest outlaw gang....

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  • Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd....
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  • Nobody could capture the Phantom. She was the wildest mare on Assateague Island. They said she was like the wind, that the white "map" on her shoulders was her mark of freedom....
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  • Upon discovering that their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island set out to bring her home....

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  • Eve Haas is the daughter of a German Jewish family that took refuge in London after Hitler came to power. Following a terrifying air raid in the blitz, her father revealed the family secret....
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  • It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannah’s half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always....

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