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| A Rainbow in the Night: The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa
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Dominique Lapierre.
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| Publisher: DaCapo. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780306818820. Daedalus Item Code: 21889 |
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| In 1652 a group of Dutch Calvinist farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa with a mandate from the Dutch India Company simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The ... (Read More)
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| Read My Heart: A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution
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Jane Dunn.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400042838. Daedalus Item Code: 14204 |
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| When Sir William Temple (1628–99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627–95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families—parliamentarians and royalists, ... (Read More)
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| The Real Enigma Heroes
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Phil Shanahan.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752457857. Daedalus Item Code: 30445 |
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| For almost 60 years after their deaths, three men whose courageous actions shortened World War II and saved uncounted lives remained virtually unknown. Following a sea battle on October 30, 1942, ... (Read More)
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| Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention
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Charlotte Gray.
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| Publisher: Arcade. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781611450606. Daedalus Item Code: 22422 |
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| Although we remember Alexander Graham Bell best as inventor of the telephone, this biography reveals his wide-ranging passion for invention and delves into the private life that supported his genius. ... (Read More)
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| Renaissance Florence on 5 Florins a Day
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Charles FitzRoy.
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| Publisher: Thames & Hudson. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780500288504. Daedalus Item Code: 21280 |
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| Welcome to Florence in 1490; under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, no city on earth can match its culture, learning, art, and naked ambition. Written in the style of a modern travel guide but ... (Read More)
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| A Renegade History of the United States
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Thaddeus Russell.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416571063. Daedalus Item Code: 23222 |
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| In his contentious alternate history of the origins of American freedom, Thaddeus Russell disparages traditional icons of liberty like Adams, Jefferson, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Edison, Roosevelt, and ... (Read More)
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| Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town
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Deborah Rudacille.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375423680. Daedalus Item Code: 23529 |
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| The science writer who gave us The Riddle of Gender here returns to her hometown roots to portray the rusting steel industry in America. When Deborah Rudacille was growing up in Dundalk, ... (Read More)
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| Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
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Rosina Harrison.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143120865. Daedalus Item Code: 29747 |
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| In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her new position as personal maid to the infamously temperamental Lady Nancy Astor, who sat in Parliament, ... (Read More)
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| Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War
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Carrie Brown.
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| Publisher: Northeastern University Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781555535353. Daedalus Item Code: 30160 |
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| The iconic Rosie the Riveter may have plied the airplane assembly lines during World War II—but what about World War I? Who assembled all those wood and fabric biplanes? Who shaped and filled the ... (Read More)
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| Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds
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Leslie Carroll.
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| Publisher: New American Library. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780451232212. Daedalus Item Code: 31116 |
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| The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the rottenest apples. Chock full of shocking scenes, titillating tales, and wildly wicked nobles, Royal ... (Read More)
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| School House to White House: The Education of the Presidents
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National Archives Presidential Libraries.
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| Publisher: D. Giles. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781904832430. Daedalus Item Code: 14030 |
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| This companion volume to a traveling exhibit of the National Archives uses memoirs, scrapbooks, official records, and letters to reveal the formative experiences that shaped the lives of 20th-century ... (Read More)
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| The Second World War: A Military History
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Gordon Corrigan.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781843548942. Daedalus Item Code: 30391 |
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| A member of the British Commission for Military History and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society as well as the author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock and Blood, Sweat and Arrogance, ... (Read More)
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