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The Devil Soldier

The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China… A courageous leader who became the first American mandarin, Frederick Townsend Ward won crucial victories for the Emperor of China during the Taiping Rebellion, history's...

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Mao: The Unknown Story

By: Jung Chang

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually...

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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

By: Jung Chang

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an...

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The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II

By: Winston Groom

Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall – from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to...

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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York

By: Richard Zacks

A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICE In the 1890s, New York City was America’s...

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Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour

By: Richard Zacks

From Richard Zacks, bestselling author ofIsland of ViceandThe Pirate Hunter,a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disasterand family tragedy—and revived his...

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One Native Life

By: Richard Wagamese

In 2005, award-winning writer Richard Wagamese moved with his partner to a cabin outside Kamloops, B.C. In the crisp mountain air Wagamese felt a peace he’d seldom known before. Abused and abandoned as a kid, he’d grown up feeling...

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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman

By: Richard P. Feynman

“One of the towering figures of twentieth-century science, Richard Feynman possessed a curiosity that was the stuff of legend. Even before he won the Nobel Prize in 1965, his unorthodox and spellbinding lectures on physics secured...

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