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• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

  Blackhawk, Ned,

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  Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, retelling U.S. history from the side of America's Indigenous peoples.

• Code Talker

  Nez, Chester,

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  In this memoir, 89-year-old Chester Nez chronicles both his years serving as a Code Talker during WWII and his life growing up on the Checkerboard Area of the Navajo Reservation.

• A Walk in the Park

  the True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

  Fedarko, Kevin,

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  Kevin Fedarko chronicles his year-long effort to find a 750-mile path along the highly dangerous, life-changing length of the Grand Canyon, through a vertical wilderness suspended between the rims and the Colorado River.

• Damn Lucky

  One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

  Maurer, Kevin,

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  The incredible true story of John "Lucky" Luckadoo, who survived 25 missions as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in WWII.

• Realm of Ice and Sky

  Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue

  Levy, Buddy, 1960-

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  A thrilling narrative of Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman, who pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each.

• Boyd

  The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

  Coram, Robert

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  John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Many think of Boyd, the man who in simulated air-to-air combat defeated every challenger in less than 40 seconds, as the most influential military theorist since…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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