A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
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The Summer of 1876: Outlaws, Lawmen, and Legends in the Season That Defined the American West
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On the Galápagos Islands, the lives of two women—a century apart—converge in the most startling ways in a historical novel of desperate love, secrets, and deception by the author of My Last Continent.…
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
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