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Displaying records 111 through 120 of 507 |
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $14.00
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Manufacturer: Bruce Campbell Adamson Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bruce Campbell Adamson::Knight. D::Dennis McDonough
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Publisher: Bruce Campbell Adamson Books
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Edition: Revised 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 1996-10
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Reading Level: 168
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Price: $30.95
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Sale: $30.95
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Diane Ackerman
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318350943841
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Publication Date: 2008-01-09
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Reading Level: 487
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Description: Amazon Significant Seven, September 2007: On the heels of Alan Weisman's The World Without Us I picked up Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper’s Wife. Both books take you to Poland's forest primeval, the Bialowieza, and paint a richly textured portrait of a natural world that few of us would recognize. The similarities end there, however, as Ackerman explores how that sense of natural order imploded under the Nazi occupation of Poland. Jan and Antonina Zabiniski--keepers of the Warsaw Zoo who sheltered Jews from the Warsaw ghetto--serve as Ackerman's lens to this moment in time, and she weaves their experiences and reflections so seamlessly into the story that it would be easy to read the book as Antonina's own miraculous memoir. Jan and Antonina's passion for life in all its diversity illustrates ever more powerfully just how narrow the Nazi worldview was, and what tragedy it wreaked. The Zookeeper’s Wife is a powerful testament to their courage and--like Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise--brings this period of European history into intimate view. --Anne Bartholomew
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Audio Memory Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Audio Cassette
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Author: Larry Troxel
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Publisher: Audio Memory Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 903
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Publication Date: 1998-03
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Reading Level: 24
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $17.09
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Manufacturer: Random House Audiobooks
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Number of Items: 3
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Binding: Audio CD
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Author: Max Arthur
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Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355
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Publication Date: 2004-10-01
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Description: Taken from the archives of the Imperial War Museum and new voice recordings, this collection of audiobooks tells the real story of WWII from the men and women who were there. The Fight for Survival covers September 1939 - June 1941, and looks specifically at the outbreak of war, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, the sinking of the Bismark, the Battle of Crete, and Hitler's invasion of Russia. |
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $12.62
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Manufacturer: Random House Audiobooks
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Number of Items: 3
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Binding: Audio CD
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Author: Max Arthur
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Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355
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Publication Date: 2004-11-01
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Description: Taken from the archives of the Imperial War Museum and new voice recordings, this collection of audiobooks tells the real story of WWII from the men and women who were there. D-Day and Beyond covers June 1944 - May 1945, and looks specifically at D-Day, the liberation of Paris, the Allied advance into Germany, the Russian advance towards Berlin, the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini, and the end of the War.
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Manufacturer: G K Hall & Co
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Cahill
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Publisher: G K Hall & Co
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Edition: Largeprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.04924
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Publication Date: 1998-11
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Reading Level: 328
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Description: Thomas Cahill, author of the bestselling How the Irish Saved Civilization, continues his Hinges of History series with The Gifts of the Jews, a light-handed, popular account of ancient Jewish culture, the culture of the Bible. The book is written from a decidedly modern point of view. Cahill notes, for instance, that Abraham moved the Jews from Ur to the land of Canaan "to improve their prospects," and that the leering inhabitants of Sodom surrounded Lot's lodging "like the ghouls in Night of the Living Dead." The Gifts of the Jews nonetheless encourages us to see the Old Testament through ancient eyes--to see its characters not as our contemporaries but as those of Gilgamesh and Amenhotep. Cahill also lingers on often-overlooked books of the Bible, such as Ruth, to discuss changes in ancient sensibility. The result is a fine, speculative, eminently readable work of history.
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jack Lucas::D. K. Drum
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.542528
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Publication Date: 2007-03-21
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Reading Level: 260
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Price: $58.00
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Sale: $15.82
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Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.544973
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Publication Date: 2001-08-14
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: Long before he entered politics, when he was just in his early 20s, South Dakotan George McGovern flew 35 bomber missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery under fire. Stephen Ambrose, the industrious historian, focuses on McGovern and the young crew of his B-24 bomber, volunteers all, in this vivid study of the air war in Europe. Manufactured by a consortium of companies that included Ford Motor and Douglas Aircraft, the B-24 bomber, dubbed the Liberator, was designed to drop high explosives on enemy positions well behind the front lines--and especially on the German capital, Berlin. Unheated, drafty, and only lightly armored, the planes were dangerous places to be, and indeed, only 50 percent of their crews survived to the war's end. Dangerous or not, they did their job, delivering thousand- pound bombs to targets deep within Germany and Austria. In his fast-paced narrative, Ambrose follows many other flyers (including the Tuskegee Airmen, the African American pilots who gave the B-24s essential fighter support on some of their most dangerous missions) as they brave the long odds against them, facing moments of glory and terror alike. "It would be an exaggeration to say that the B-24 won the war for the Allies," Ambrose writes. "But don't ask how they could have won the war without it." --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $4.99
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Art Buchwald
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Publisher: Thorndike Pr
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Edition: Lrg
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Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
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Publication Date: 1996-11
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Reading Level: 383
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Description: "I felt like I was riding a horse in a steeplechase. I could hardly catch my breath after finishing a conversation with J. Paul Getty, and then started a new one with Truman Capote," writes Art Buchwald in I'll Always Have Paris the continuation of a memoir that began with Leaving Home. A Paris-based writer for the International Herald Tribune in the 1940s and '50s, Buchwald wrote a column exalting, criticizing, and, most of all, poking fun at the era's celebrities. The much-loved humorist looks at the period in his life with zeal and sensitivity, capturing the excitement of the time, while reflecting on the natural ebb and flow of his life with wife Ann.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $20.64
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Manufacturer: Warren L. Braun
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Warren L. Braun
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Publisher: Warren L. Braun
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Dewey Decimal Number: 370
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Publication Date: 2005-12-30
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Reading Level: 212
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