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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Killing Kennedy chronicles both the heroism and the deceit of Camelot. The events leading up to the most notorious crime of the twentieth century are almost as shocking as the assassination itself. In January 1961, as the Cold War escalates, John F. Kennedy struggles to contain the growth of Communism while he learns the hardships, solitude, and temptations of what it means to be president of the United States. Along the way he acquires a number...
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the "Adam...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 838 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first major, single-volume life of John F. Kennedy to be written by a historian in nearly four decades draws upon previously unavailable material and never-before-opened archives to tell Kennedy's story. We learn for the first time just how sick Kennedy was, how Bobby was selected as Attorney General, exactly what Jack's father did to help his election to the presidency, and more.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
'What was he like?' Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that question. Chris Matthews gives us just that. The man you discover here wanted never to be alone, never to be bored. He loved courage, hated war, and lived each day as if it were his last. This extraordinary biography is based on personal interviews with those close to JFK, oral histories, primary documents, and notes from Jackie Kennedy's first interview after...
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
485 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A re-imagining of the events surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy finds Bob Lee Swagger drawing on old records, intelligence archives, and observations at the infamous site to investigate a new clue about a third bullet that mysteriously exploded.
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Language
English
Description
When Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is found in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of the millionaire. Daisy Buchanan once thought she might marry Gatsby, before her family was torn...
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English
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"In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack...With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald's past, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"A miracle; an exquisite story exquisitely told . . . If you love Jane Austen, or Hamilton, or fiction--of any era--that transports and transforms in equal measure, look no further." --A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window.
From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him best: a young, marriageable...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's...
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Language
English
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As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of President John F. Kennedy's death, including the days immediately preceding and following the assassination. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive travel, and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester...
Author
Language
English
Description
As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon. On May 25, 1961, JFK made an astonishing announcement: his goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. In this engrossing, fast-paced epic, Douglas Brinkley returns to the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the military leadership of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, his strategic insight, and how he often overstepped the boundaries of his political office to assume the role of commander in chief, ultimately changing the course of the war and saving the Union.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p., ; black and white photos
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with a nation deep in mourning and the world looking on in stunned disbelief, Jacqueline Kennedy found the strength to set aside her own personal grief for the sake of posterity and begin the task of documenting and preserving her husband's legacy. In January of 1964, she and Robert F. Kennedy approved a planned oral-history project that would capture their first-hand accounts of the late...
Author
Series
Paul Christopher novels volume 2
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
c1974
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Secret agent Paul Christopher develops a theory about who assassinated John F. Kennedy, but when his theory threatens to destroy the public's opinion of the president, Christopher is ordered off the investigation, forcing him to resign and continue the investigation on his own.
20) Red Square
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
418 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigator Arkady Renco returns to Moscow and finds everything has changed and the only entity that functions is the economy, run by the Russian Mafia.
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