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  • Thornton Wilder

    A Life

    The definitive biography of the great American playwright: a "fine-grained, sympathetic portrait" with a foreword by Edward Albee ( The New York Times).Thornton Wilder—three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, creator of such enduring stage works as Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and beloved novels like Bridge of San Luis Ray and Theophilus North—was much more than a pivotal figure in twentieth ... Leer más

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  • The Poet and the Sailor

    The Story of My Friendship with Carl Sandburg

    Two friends, a lifetime of letters, and an intimate look at a literary iconCarl Sandburg first encountered Kenneth Dodson through a letter written at sea during World War II. Though Dodson wrote the letter to his wife, Letha, Sandburg read it in tears and told her, "I've got to meet this man." Composed primarily of their correspondence that continued until Sandburg's death in 1967, The Poet and ... Leer más

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  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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  • When Books Went to War

    The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II

    This New York Times bestselling account of books parachuted to soldiers during WWII is a "cultural history that does much to explain modern America" ( USA Today).When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned 100 million books. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops, gathering 20 million hardcover donations. Two years ... Leer más

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  • Tarawa

    The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles

    In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, the United States waged a bloody campaign on Betio Island in the Tarawa Atoll, the most heavily fortified Japanese territory in the entire Pacific. They were fighting to wrest control of the island to stage the next big push toward Japan—and one journalist ... Leer más

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  • The Mosquito Bowl

    A Game of Life and Death in World War II

    Instant New York Times Bestseller · Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation“Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John GrishamAn extraordinary, untold story of the Se... ... Leer más

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  • We Band of Angels

    The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan

    In the fall of 1941, the Philippines was a gardenia-scented paradise for the American Army and Navy nurses stationed there. War was a distant rumor, life a routine of easy shifts and dinners under the stars. On December 8 all that changed, as Japanese bombs began raining down on American bases in Luzon, and this paradise became a fiery hell. Caught in the raging battle, the nurses set up field ... Leer más

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  • Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976

    de E. B. White ...
    A wise, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White.Written for the New Yorker over a span of forty-nine years, these 161 pieces show White’s changing concerns and development as a writer. In matchless style White writes about everything from cicadas to Khrushchev, from Thoreau to hyphens, from academic freedom to lipstick, from New York garbagemen to the ... Leer más

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  • Rescue at Los Baños

    The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II

    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time.In February 1945, as the US victory in the Pacific drew nearer, the Japanese army grew desperate, and its soldiers guarding U.S. and Allied POWs more sadistic. Starved, shot and beaten, many of the 2,146 prisoners of the Los Baños prison camp in the ... Leer más

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  • The Jersey Brothers

    A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home

    This extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II in the Pacific Theater is “liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it’s all true” (The New York Times).The three Jersey brothers are all Navy men who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war’s most crucial moments. Bill, a naval ... Leer más

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  • All the Gallant Men

    An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor

    The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor"An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage." — Reader's DigestIn this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight.At 8:10 a.m. on Decem... ... Leer más

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  • Standing into Danger

    de Cassie Brown ...
    In the snowy predawn of February 18, 1942, a convoy of three American ships zigzagged up the North Atlantic toward Newfoundland, heading for one of the worst disasters in naval history. The ships were under radio silence to protect their position from the threat of German U-boats. A storm was raging, visibility was zero, and the currents had turned wildly unpredictable. With only unreliable ... Leer más

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