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These truths : a history of the United States / by Lepore, Jill,1966-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas--"these truths," Jefferson called them--political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching," writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation's history. In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths, or belied them. "A nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, sovereignty in a land of conquest, will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history," Lepore writes, finding meaning in those very contradictions as she weaves American history into a majestic tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. A spellbinding chronicle filled with arresting sketches of Americans from John Winthrop and Frederick Douglass to Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly, These Truths offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation"--
Subjects: Civil rights;

The book of elsewhere : a novel / by Reeves, Keanu,author.; Miéville, China,author.;
"An epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books"--
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Epic fiction.; Novels.; Imaginary wars and battles; Immortalism; Mercenary troops;

The little captive / by Kristensen, Lise G.; Kristensen, Lise G.Blue door.;
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Subjects: Kristensen, Lise G.; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© 2014, c2012., Pan Books,

London / by Platt, Richard.; Cappon, Manuela.;
London" follows the story of the historic capital from its Celtic origins, from 3500 B.C., right up to the present - including the settlement of the Romans, the Anglo-Saxon era, the Viking invasion, and the growth of medieval London in Norman times. Along the way, the book explores major events in London's history, such as the plague, the Great Fire and the Blitz of World War II.
© c2009., Kingfisher,

The hidden girl : a true story of the Holocaust / by Kaufman, Lola Rein.; Metzger, Lois.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [100-105]) and Internet addresses.LSC
Subjects: Kaufman, Lola Rein.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Holocaust survivors; Jews;
© [2010], c2008., Scholastic,

All the ways we said goodbye : a novel of the Ritz Paris / by Williams, Beatriz,author.; Willig, Lauren,author.; White, Karen(Karen S.),author.;
The authors of 'The Glass Ocean' and 'The Forgotten Room' return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris legendary Ritz hotel.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Hotels;

Over the wire : a Canadian pilot's memoir of war and survival as a POW / by Carswell, Andrew,1923-;
Subjects: Carswell, Andrew, 1923-; Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command; Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf.; Air pilots, Military; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2011., J. Wiley & Sons Canada,

The war begins in Paris : a novel / by Wheeler, Theodore,author.;
From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Americans; Nazis; Propaganda; Women war correspondents; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;

The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War / by Bascomb, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of three downed British airmen who mastermind an elaborate, rollicking escape from a WWI German POW camp"--
Subjects: Prisoner-of-war escapes; Escaped prisoners of war; Prisoner-of-war camps; World War, 1914-1918; Airmen;

Seven days in May : a novel of the Lusitania, inspired by true events / by Izzo, Kim,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Lusitania (Steamship); Man-woman relationships; World War, 1914-1918;

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