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  • Codebreaker Girls

    A Secret Life at Bletchley Park

    by Jan Slimming ...
    "What would it be like to keep a secret for fifty years? Never telling your parents, your children, or even your husband?"Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park tells the true story of Daisy Lawrence. Following extensive research, the author uses snippets of information, unpublished photographs and her own recollections to describe scenes from her mother's poor, but happy, upbringing ... Read more

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  • The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker

    Codebreaker Girls

    by Jan Slimming ...
    The tale of a college student's top-secret life: "A welcome addition to the seldom told story of the role of American women in [WWII] codebreaking." — The Spectrum MonitorThe Secret Life of an American Codebreaker is the true account of Janice Martin, a college student recruited to the military in 1943 after she was secretly approached by a professor at Goucher College, a liberal arts ... Read more

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  • Captured at Singapore

    A Diary of a Far East Prisoner of War

    What would it be like to leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? Then depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination and find yourself in the heat of a battle which concludes in enemy conditions so terrible that your survival in captivity is still under threat? Cultivated from a small, faded, address book secretly written by a young soldier in ... Read more

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  • The Eagle in the Mirror

    by Jesse Fink ...
    Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of Charles Howard “Dick” Ellis, the Australian-born British intelligence officer and master spy accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century.The longest serving spy for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Ellis came to New York at ... Read more

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  • Queen Victoria's Daughters-in-Law

    The first book to study the four wives of Queen Victoria's sons as a family group—based partly on previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives.The first to join the family of the "Grandmama of Europe" was Alexandra, eldest daughter of the prince about to become King Christian IX of Denmark. Charming, ever sympathetic and widely considered one of the most attractive royal women of her ... Read more

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  • Medieval Military Medicine

    From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages

    A study of how doctors and surgeons treated the brutal injuries and illnesses suffered by medieval combatants.Soldiers of the Middle Ages faced razor-sharp swords and axes that could slice through flesh with gruesome ease, while spears and arrows were made to puncture both armor and the wearer, and even more sinister means of causing harm produced burns and crush injuries. These casualties of war ... Read more

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  • Mental Immunity

    Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

    by Andy Norman ...
    " Mental Immunity is the perfect vaccine for the mind-viruses infecting our culture: alternative facts, fake news, and conspiracy thinking, to name a few." —Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of The Believing BrainAstonishingly irrational ideas are spreading. Covid denial persists in the face of overwhelming evidence. Anti-vaxxers compromise public health. Conspiracy ... Read more

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  • The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

    A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

    by Thomas Geve ...
    A real account of a boy's life during the Holocaust in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald, recorded in his own words and color drawings.In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in the men's camp of Auschwitz I.During twenty-two harsh months ... Read more

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  • Black Bird

    One Man's Freedom Hides in Another Man's Darkness

    Previously published as In with the Devil, Black Bird is the basis for the Apple TV+ show.Featured on Dateline and CNN, Black Bird is the true story of a young man destined for greatness on the football field—until a few wrong turns led him to a ten-year prison sentence. He was offered an impossible mission: Coax a confession out of a fellow inmate, a serial killer, and walk free.James Keene grew ... Read more

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  • Knitting for the Absolute Beginner

    Series series Absolute Beginner Craft
    Techniques, step-by-step photos, and simple projects for new knitters—both adults and kids!Covering all the essential techniques, including basic garter and stocking stitch, casting on and casting off, and increasing and decreasing—all clearly explained using step-by-step photographs and simple instructions—this book is a treasure trove for beginning knitters. Alison Dupernex's designs have a ... Read more

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  • The "More or Less" Definitive Guide to Self-Care

    by Anna Borges ...
    "Taking care of yourself is not meant to be stressful. [This book] gives practical tips for implementing self-care in our busy lives." — AllureSome days you need a pick-me-up, some days you need a life preserver. As Anna Borges explains, for most of us, self-care is a wide spectrum of decisions and actions that soothe and fortify us against all the shit we deal with. You may already practice some ... Read more

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