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  • The Haight

    The Haight Mystery Series, #1

    by Peter Moreira ...
    Series Book 1 - The Haight Mystery Series
    SFPD Lieut. Jimmy Spracklin had never believed that peace and love reigned supreme in Haight-Ashbury. He didn't buy it when his teenage daughter Marie ran away to the hippie enclave in 1967. And he wasn't buying it 10 months later, when investigating the murder of an artist called John Blakely. If anything, The Haight was more dangerous than ever because the growing popularity of heroin was ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hemingway on the China Front

    by Peter Moreira ...
    Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn had no idea of what they would discover when they set out for Hong Kong, China, and Burma in 1941. The husband-and-wife team of celebrity literati intended to report on the China-Japan war while honeymooning in the romantic Far East. What they found was a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and drunks, scoundrels and socialites, heroes and ... Read more

    $17.95 USD

  • Jew Who Defeated Hitler

    Henry Morgenthau Jr., FDR, and How We Won The War

    by Peter Moreira ...
    President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the slogan "The Arsenal of Democracy" to describe American might during the grim years of World War II. The man who financed that arsenal was his Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr. This is the first book to focus on the wartime achievements of this unlikely hero-a dyslexic college dropout who turned himself into a forceful and efficient ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Backwater:: Nova Scotia's Economic Decline

    by Peter Moreira ...
    This hard-hitting but fair assessment of Nova Scotia and the Maritimes will shock and surprise many Maritimers who have been conditioned to think that the east coast of Canada is one of the most livable regions in the country. Author Peter Moreira, a native Maritimer who returned home after working overseas for more than a decade, offers a straightforward analysis of why the region has fallen so ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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  • The Black Dahlia

    by James Ellroy ...
    Series series L. A. Quartet
    A novel in The L.A. Quartet. The Black Dahlia is the haunting and harrowing book that put James Ellroy on the map as one of the most electrifying writers on the scene.On January 15, 1947, the brutally mutilated body of Elizabeth Short is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia, becoming the center of a media frenzy and cultural fixation.Caught up in the investigation ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Three Days at the Brink

    FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II

    by Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney ...
    Series series Three Days Series
    The Instant New York Times Bestseller"I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This book not only sparkles but is destined to be a classic!” —Jay Winik, bestselling authorFrom the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier, comes thegripping lost ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • The Splendid Blond Beast

    Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

    by Christopher Simpson ...
    Series Book 24 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    From a National Jewish Book Award–winning author: The "revelatory and shocking" investigation into the CIA's liberation of Nazi war criminals ( Kirkus Reviews).How did Gen, Karl Wolff, one of the highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party's Waffen-SS, who personally oversaw the deportation of three hundred thousand Jews to the Treblinka extermination camps, escape prosecution at the Nuremberg ... Read more

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  • Let the Great World Spin

    A Novel

    by Colum McCann ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-LevittIn the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Wise Men

    Six Friends and the World They Made

    by Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas ...
    With a new introduction by the authors, this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II.A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces six close friends who shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II.They were the original best and brightest, whose ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Accidental President

    Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

    by A. J. Baime ...
    A hypnotically fast-paced, masterful reporting of Harry Truman’s first 120 days as president, when he took on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable power—marking the most dramatic rise to greatness in US presidential history.Chosen as FDR’s fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Blue Knight

    by Joseph Wambaugh ...
    New York Times–Bestselling Author: A novel of a cop on the edge that "capture[s] the excitement, terror, pity, and occasional tedium of police work" ( The Boston Globe).Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two days before he pulls the pin and walks away from it forever. But on the streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Roosevelt and the Holocaust

    How FDR Saved the Jews and Brought Hope to a Nation

    by Robert L. Beir ...
    The year was 1932. At age fourteen Robert Beir’s journey through life changed irrevocably when a classmate called him a “dirty Jew.” Suddenly Beir encountered the belligerent poison of anti-Semitism. The safe confines of his upbringing had been violated. The pain that he felt at that moment was far more hurtful than any blow. Its memory would last a lifetime.Beir’s experiences with anti-Semitism ... Read more

    $10.99 USD