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  • The Last Manchu

    The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

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    Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains.The author, Michael Gill, was a close ... Leer más

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  • The Bowery

    The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

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  • 1967

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    Blazing hot meets icy cool in a momentous year in US historyOn New Year’s Day in 1967, the 200 million Americans who lived in the United States were about to experience a fascinating, exciting, and sometimes bewildering twelve months that for many formed an iconic portion of their lives. Despite the fact that the coming year produced no Black Friday, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11 attack, the nation still ... Leer más

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  • The Iron Queen

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    47 CE. Rome's iron fist closes around Celtic Britain. One woman dares to fight back...Boudica dreams of being a warrior, but fate has other plans. Forced into a political marriage, she watches helplessly as Rome strips her people of their freedom.When imperial treachery shatters her world, Boudica must make an impossible choice . . . submit to Rome's tyranny, or lead a bloody rebellion against the ... Leer más

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  • Dark Days of Georgian Britain

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    How He Helped Win the First World War

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  • Lies, Half-Truths, and More Lies

    The Truth Behind 250 "Facts" You Learned in School (and Elsewhere)

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