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Alien hunter volume 3
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Tor
Pub. Date
2016
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The aliens have seen many worlds, but they know that Earth in particular is a jewel. They lust for its soaring mountains, its shining seas, its gorgeous forests, and majestic deserts. There is just one part of the planet that they don't want: us. Flynn Carroll knows that the aliens have found a way to eliminate humanity: capture the mind of the president of the United States. Though Carroll is determined to stop the aliens from achieving their goal,...
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"Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been...
84) Living history
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White...
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Triumph Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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Inaugurations take place in a swirl of pageantry, but the historic swearing-in of Barack Obama lives on in a handsome 160-page commemorative photo book that documents the official ceremony, the parade, the crowds, moments public and private, and the inaugural balls with all their finery.
88) The meaning of Michelle: 16 writers on the iconic first lady and how her journey inspires our own
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Michelle Obama is unlike any other first lady in American history. From her first moments on the public stage, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful, to be strong, to be fashion-conscious, to be healthy, to be First Mom, to be a caretaker and hostess, and to be partner to the most powerful man in the world ... While many books have looked at Michelle Obama from a fashion perspective, no book has fully...
90) The Clintons
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This title explores how the Clintons got their start in politics, their impact from the White House, and how the Clinton legacy is continuing into the 2016 presidential election and beyond.
93) The last orphan
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Orphan X volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller--when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure...
96) Deception point
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In this riveting thriller by the author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Da Vinci Code," a team of scientists uncovers a vicious, high-ranking conspiracy that may lead all the way to the White House. Now in a premium edition.
97) The Rough Riders
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Theodore Roosevelt's bestselling memoir chronicling the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry and its victory at San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. Yearning to join the fight for Cuban independence in the Spanish–American War, Theodore Roosevelt and Col. Leonard Wood formed the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. They enlisted a motley crew from all walks of life, from cowboys and frontiersmen to Ivy League graduates. These 1,250 men became...
98) Our Nixon
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Newly uncovered Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides – and fellow Watergate conspirators – offer an intimate and surprising new glimpse into his presidency.
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In 1863, Abraham Lincoln proved himself a master of a new frontier - not on the battlefields of the Civil War, but in his high-tech command center: the War Department Telegraph Office. The internet of the 19th century, the telegraph gave Lincoln new powers to reshape leadership and wield personal control across distant battlefields. It also connected him to the country in new ways, as information poured in, and allowed him to feel the pulse of the...
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