Download Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transfo...

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Title	:	Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Author	:	Nathalia Holt
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ISBN	:	0316338923
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	352 pages

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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolica...

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Title	:	The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Author	:	Skip Hollandsworth
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ISBN	:	0805097678
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	321 pages

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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven.In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular...

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Title	:	The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
Author	:	Joshua Hammer
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ISBN	:	1476777403
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	280 pages

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The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss by Anderson Cooper

A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their livesThough Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS affords him little time to spend with her. After she suffers a brief but serious...

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Title	:	The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
Author	:	Anderson Cooper
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ISBN	:	006245496X
Edition Language	:	English
Format Type	:	ebook
Number of Pages	:	304 pages

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Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders by Brady Carlson

An entertaining exploration into the death stories of our nation’s greatest leaders—and the wild ways we choose to remember and memorialize them.In Dead Presidents, public radio host Brady Carlson takes readers to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials to tell the death stories of our greatest leaders. Mixing biography and travelogue, Carlson explores whether Wi...

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Title	:	Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders
Author	:	Brady Carlson
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ISBN	:	0393243931
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	324 pages

And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East by Richard Engel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Gripping reading...an astute, fast-paced overview...[Engel] gives us sharp, unnerving snapshots.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesBased on two decades of reporting, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent’s riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen up-close—sometimes dangerously so.When he was just twe...

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Title	:	And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
Author	:	Richard Engel
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ISBN	:	1451635117
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	241 pages

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