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Sweet Tooth
The Bittersweet History of Candy

St. Martin's Press
A cultural history of candy—how it evolved from medicine and a luxury to today's Kit Kat bars and M&M'sTold through the Kate Hopkins' travels in Europe and the...
  
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Battleground Pacific
A Marine Rifleman's Combat Odyssey in K/3/5

St. Martin's Press
A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WWII’S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary “K-3-5” (for Company K, 3rd Battalion,...
  
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From Splendor to Revolution
The Romanov Women, 1847--1928

St. Martin's Griffin
This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of...
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SEAL Team Six
Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper

St. Martin's Griffin
When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes...
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Empire of Shadows
The Epic Story of Yellowstone

St. Martin's Press
“George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet’s most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you’ll never think of our...
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Babylon
Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Thomas Dunne Books
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and...
  
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The Story of English in 100 Words

St. Martin's Press
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In The...
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Hell Above Earth
The Incredible True Story of an American WWII Bomber Commander and the Copilot Ordered to Kill Him

St. Martin's Press
“The riveting true story of a World War II bomber pilot and the co-pilot who received orders to kill him…After the twists and turns in Goering's many missions,...
  
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A Magnificent Obsession
Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy

St. Martin's Press
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage...
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Death and the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal That Rocked the Throne

St. Martin's Griffin
In the tradition of Alison Weir’s New York Times bestselling Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, comes the most sensational crime story of...

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Gideon's Spies
The Secret History of the Mossad

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
THE SIXTH EDITION OF THE COMPELLING AND CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY OF ISRAEL’S SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no...
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Blackhorse Riders
A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot

St. Martin's Press
This is the incredible true story of a brave military unit in Vietnam that risked everything to rescue an outnumbered troop under heavy fire—and the...
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Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America’s...
  
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Sniper Elite
The World of a Top Special Forces Marksman

St. Martin's Press
A gritty, no-holds-barred behind-the-scenes memoir of life as one of the world’s top snipers In Sniper Elite, Rob Maylor takes readers inside the closed world...
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Fighter Pilot
The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds

St. Martin's Griffin
Robin Olds was many things to many people. To his West Point football coach he was an All American destined for the National College Football Hall of Fame. To...
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Xenophon's Cyrus the Great
The Arts of Leadership and War

St. Martin's Griffin
In 1906, a stilted English translation of Xenophon of Athens' story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more...
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Alix and Nicky
The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina

St. Martin's Press
The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that...
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Killer Elite
Completely Revised and Updated: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team

St. Martin's Griffin
For the first time ever, the explosive truth behind the world’s most secret Special Operations organization A top-secret U.S. Army Special Operations unit has...
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Kill or Capture
How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist

St. Martin's Griffin
The electrifying true story of the pursuit for the man behind al Qaeda’s suicide bombing campaign in Iraq Kill or Capture is a true-life thriller that tells...
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Nixon's Darkest Secrets
The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President

Thomas Dunne Books
A veteran White House reporter reveals our 37th president was even more sinister and haunted than we knew. Richard Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our...
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Five Days That Shocked the World
Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II

Thomas Dunne Books
In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini’s capture and...
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And the Band Played On
Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

St. Martin's Griffin
Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international...
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The Captured
A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

St. Martin's Griffin
On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence,...
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The Story of Ireland
A History of the Irish People

Thomas Dunne Books
In this groundbreaking history of Ireland, Neil Hegarty presents a fresh perspective on Ireland’s past. Comprehensive and engaging, The Story of Ireland is an...