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  A Night to Remember

  by Walter Lord

  The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic , in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic 's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and crew, both noble and ignominious. Some sacrificed their lives, while others fought like animals for their... (more)
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  Trilogy of Desire: Book 1

  The Financier

  by Theodore Dreiser

  This powerful novel explores the dynamics of the financial world during the Civil War and after the stock market panic caused by the Chicago fire. Frank Cowperwood, a ruthlessly dominating broker, climbs the ladder of success, occasionally missing a rung or two, with his loving mistress championing his every move. Ten 90-minute cassettes and four 60's.
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  Dear America

  Voyage on the Great Titanic

  The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912

  by Ellen Emerson White

  Written from the point of view of a young passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic, this title combines an award-winning series with the "disaster of the century".
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  Titanic

  An Illustrated History

  by Donald Lynch, Ken Marschall

  A popular gift volume featuring dozens of meticulously accurate, full-color paintings--including a fold-out illustration of the whole Titanic --offers a wealth of information about the "unsinkable" cruise ship and its fatal voyage. Reprint.
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  Doctor Who: New Adventures: Book 38

  Human Nature

  by Paul Cornell

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  Her Name Titanic

  The Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship

  by Charles Pellegrino

  "NOT EVEN GOD HIMSELF COULD SINK THIS SHIP? On the evening of Sunday, April 14, 1912, the awesome ocean liner Titanic-the majestic queen of the White Star fleet-struck an iceberg and quickly vanished into the frigid blackness of the North Atlantic. Seventy-three years later, a dedicated group of scientists set sail in search of the sunken behemoth-an incredible mission that uncovered shocking secrets buried two... (more)
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  Nothing Can Separate Us

  by Tracy Leininger Craven

  As the Titanic sank, Pastor John Harper of Scotland cried out for lost souls, led dying men to Christ, and ultimately sacrificed his life for others. On board with him was his daughter Nan. This is a love story about a father and a daughter, and how one girl grew up to pass on her father's legacy of heroism and Christianity to future generations. Thrilling and Christ glorifying!
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  The First Fall Classic

  The Red Sox, the Giants and the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos Who Re-Invented the World Series in 1912

  by Mike Vaccaro

  Acclaimed author Mike Vaccaro presents a riveting, must-read account of what remains, nearly a century later, the greatest World Series ever played. In October of 1912, seven years before gambling nearly destroyed the sport, the world of baseball got lucky. It would get two teams-the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants, winners of a combined 208 games during the regular season-who may well have been the two... (more)
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  Death in Venice

  by Thomas Mann

  The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann. Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. In the decaying city, besieged by... (more)
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  The Gods Will Have Blood

  by Anatole France

  It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a revolutionary young artist appointed magistrate, and given the power of life and death over the citizens of France. But his intense idealism and unbridled single-mindedness drive him inexorably... (more)
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  Story Of The Wreck Of The Titanic Copyright (1912 Memorial Edition)

  by L. H. Walter

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  by David Von Drehle (Author)Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Hardcover)

  by David Von Drehle (Author)

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  Pygmalion

  by George Bernard Shaw

  A dramatic play about a poor flower girl and her Pygmalion, Professor of Phonetics Henry Higgins, that mirrors Shaw's opinions about the way english is, and should be, spoken and written.The story that became the basis for the hit musical My Fair Lady.
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  Demian

  by Hermann Hesse

  In Demian, one of the great writers of the twentieth century tells the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent--led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian-- into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to self-hood. "The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian is unforgettable. With uncanny... (more)
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  In the Land of White Death

  by Valerian Ivanovich Albanov

  In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea-a misfortune grievously compounded by an incompetent... (more)
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  Bread and Roses, Too

  by Katherine Paterson

  Historical fiction, set in Lawrence, MA.
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  1912

  Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election that Changed the Country

  by James Chace

  Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates. When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a radical reformer on the Bull Moose ticket. Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson, the ex-president of Princeton,... (more)