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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

Written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Published on October 2, 2012 There are a few moments of history that people can bring to life in there mind remember all that was going on during that moment....

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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

Written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard Published on September 27, 2011 On April 14, 1865 Abraham Lincoln became the first U.S. President to be assassinated.  His murder came at the end of the...

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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

written by by Kristen Iversen published June 5th 2012 Iversen states that in writing her memoir she had to write about her father’s alcoholism and Rocky Flats.  This memoir blends together the thorough...

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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Written by Stephen Puleo Published on September 16, 2004 On January 15, 1919 a 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses ruptures destroying homes and businesses in the...

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Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

written by Heike B. Görtemaker, Damion Searls (Translator) published October 2011 “Who was Eva Braun?”, “What type of woman would want to stand next to Hitler?”  These are some of the questions that...

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Written by Laura Hillenbrand Published in 2010 This book published in 2010 continues to appear week after week on bestseller lists and has been on my “to read” list for almost as long.  The book...

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Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

Written by Chris Crowe Published in 2003 Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy who traveled from Chicago to Mississippi to visit family during the summer of 1955.  While in Mississippi Emmett allegedly...

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Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls...

Written by Karen Blumenthal Published in 2005 Blumenthal is a young adult nonfiction author that has written books about the stock market, finance and Steve Jobs. This book, which seems outside her...

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Review: Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wendy Lower is a historical consultant for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her research work on the...

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Review: Thank You for Your Service

Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel My rating: 5 of 5 stars David Finkel follows a group of soldiers as they return home from the Middle East and try to pick up their lives where they had left...

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