The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men
By: Robert M. Edsel
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The author of The Monuments Men, brings this story to young readers for the first time, detailing h…
Want to Read $ 11.99"No age lives entirely alone; every civilisation is formed not merely by its own achievements but by what it has inherited from the past." — British Major Ronald Balfour of the Monuments Men"-Robert M. Edsel, The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men
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1. Talk of the Town (Daily Texas, #1)
By: Lisa Wingate
3.73
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
The show American Megastar is the hottest thing on television but its associate producer, Mandalay … read more
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- adult
"Just because I didn't create the plan didn't mean a plan didn't exist."-Lisa Wingate, Talk of the Town (Daily Texas, #1)
"My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room."-Lisa Wingate, Talk of the Town (Daily Texas, #1)
"My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too."-Lisa Wingate, Talk of the Town (Daily Texas, #1)
"Somewhere, deep within me, beyond the passion, beyond the beauty of the night, that little spark of Daily magic ignited in me again, began burning in a place that had gone dark and untended, that had…"-Lisa Wingate, Talk of the Town (Daily Texas, #1)
2. A Table in the Presence
By: Carey H. Cash
4.33
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
On April 10th, 2003, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, faced with the task of seizing the pre… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
3. George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
By: Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade
3.85
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- war
4. The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue
By: Casey Sherman , Michael J. Tougias
3.85
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years. As the weat… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
5. Lost on a Mountain in Maine
By: Donn Fendler , Joseph B. Egan
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of the Katahdin … read more
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- nonfiction
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6. The Brooklyn Nine
By: Alan Gratz
4.23
Format: 192 pages,
1845: Felix Schneider, a 10-year-old immigrant from Germany, cheers the New York Knickerbockers as … read more
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- historical
- middle grade
7. I Escaped from Auschwitz
By: Rudolf Vrba
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
The author describes his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz and his daring escape. read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- history
- war
8. Out of My Mind
By: Sharon M. Draper
3.73
Format: None pages,
Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can… read more
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- middle grade
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9. Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and tex… read more
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- historical
- middle grade
- history
- nonfiction
10. The Great Fire
By: Jim Murphy
4.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flour… read more
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- history
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11. Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
By: Tilar J. Mazzeo
3.47
Format: None pages,
A New York PostBest Book of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fa… read more
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- history
- historical
- war
- world war ii
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12. The Mapmaker's Children
By: Sarah McCoy
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Baker's Daughter, a story of family, love, and cou… read more
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13. Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone at Alcatraz, #1)
By: Gennifer Choldenko
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by wa… read more
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14. The Greatest Generation
By: Tom Brokaw
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documenta… read more
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15. When My Name Was Keoko
By: Linda Sue Park
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Sun-hee and her older brother Tae-yul are proud of their Korean heritage. Yet they live their lives… read more
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16. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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- art
- history
- childrens
- historical
- middle grade
- nonfiction
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
17. The Thief Knot (Greenglass House, #4)
By: Kate Milford
4.28
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Ghosts, a kidnapping, a crew of young detectives, and family secrets mix in this new standalone mys… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
18. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
By: Steve Sheinkin
4.49
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hung… read more
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- history
- historical
- middle grade
- world war ii
- nonfiction
19. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Words on Fire
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more
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"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire
21. Peanut Butter Panic (An Amish Candy Shop Mystery, #7)
By: Amanda Flower
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Thanksgiving is Bailey King’s busiest holiday weekend. This year promises to be even more hectic, s… read more
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22. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
By: Jason Reynolds
3.94
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a nove… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
"Got it. Here's the thing. Kenzi here got a big heart. But that big heart happens to be in a small body. Now, I don't know about you, but I would hate for that heart to be broken because that body was…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
"Difference: Then I think about Ms Broome's assignment. What could I be? What do I wish I could become to change the world? I think about telling Benni I might want to be wet cement to fill the cracks…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
"A school bus is many things. A school bus is a substitute for a limousine. More class. A school bus is a classroom with a substitute teacher. A school bus is the students' version of a teachers' loun…"-Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
23. Lalechka
By: Amira Keidar
4.46
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
A little girl is smuggled out of a Ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of surv… read more
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24. My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List
By: Rena Finder
4.22
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schin… read more
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- world war ii
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"Like many other survivors, I feel an obligation to tell my story again and again. The Holocaust was the scientifically designed, state-sponsored murder of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany and its al…"-Rena Finder, My Survival: A Girl on Schindler's List
25. Beneath the Swirling Sky (The Restorationists, #1)
By: Carolyn Leiloglou
4.18
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
A house full of paintings, a missing sister, and a family secret send a boy and his cousin into a w… read more
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26. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
By: Bill Shaffer
3.63
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking cour… read more
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27. Anne of West Philly
By: Ivy Noelle Weir
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Anne of Green Gables, with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and The Secret Ga… read more
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28. The Secret Garden on 81st Street: A Modern Retelling of the Secret Garden
By: Ivy Noelle Weir
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Unknown Binding
The Secret Garden with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, this full-color graphi… read more
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29. Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II
By: Candace Fleming
4.15
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning author Candace Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave an… read more
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30. The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century
By: Neal Bascomb
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
At the height of World War I, as Allied and German forces battled in the trenches and in the air, a… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men
By: Robert M. Edsel
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The author of The Monuments Men, brings this story to young readers for the first time, detailing h… read more
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- world war ii
- nonfiction
- adult
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"No age lives entirely alone; every civilisation is formed not merely by its own achievements but by what it has inherited from the past." — British Major Ronald Balfour of the Monuments Men"-Robert M. Edsel, The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History: The Story of the Monuments Men
