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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

By James D. Hornfischer ,

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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In the Heart of the Sea

By Nathaniel Philbrick ,

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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
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Sea of Thunder

By Evan Thomas ,

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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The Path Between the Seas

By David McCullough ,

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The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway
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The First Team

By John B. Lundstrom ,

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Survive the Savage Sea
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Survive the Savage Sea

By Dougal Robertson ,

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Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War
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Island Encounters

By Geoffrey M. White , Lamont Lindstrom ,

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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
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Helmet for My Pillow

By Ross Leckie ,

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East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia
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East of the Sun

By Benson Bobrick ,

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On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact
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On the Road of the Winds

By Patrick Vinton Kirch ,

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The Wild North Land: Being the Story of a Winter Journey, with Dogs, Across Northern North America
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The Wild North Land

By William Francis Butler ,

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Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War II
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Crossing the Line

By Alvin Kernan ,

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Unsung Eagles: True Stories of America's Citizen Airmen in the Skies of World War II
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Unsung Eagles

By Jay A. Stout ,

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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and The North Pole, 1818-1909
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The Arctic Grail

By Pierre Berton ,

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Sentinel of the Seas: Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Built
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Sentinel of the Seas

By Dennis M. Powers ,

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In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark
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In Search of York

By Robert B. Betts ,

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Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet
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Rare Bird

By Maria Ruth ,

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Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry
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Cascadia Field Guide

By Elizabeth Bradfield (editor) , CMarie Fuhrman (editor) , Derek Sheffield (editor)

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Adrift
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Adrift

By Tami Oldham Ashcraft ,

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A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail
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A Blistered Kind of Love

By Angela Ballard , Duffy Ballard ,

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The Rope of Tradition: Reflections of a Saipan Carolinian
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The Rope of Tradition

By Lino M. Olopai ,

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Our Northern Islands: The first expedition to the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument
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Our Northern Islands

By Dennis Chan , Angelo O'Connor Villagomez (editor) ,

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Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven Year Pacific Odyssey
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Tightwads on the Loose

By Wendy Hinman ,

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Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
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Liftoff

By Eric Berger ,

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Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
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Love Does

By Bob Goff ,

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Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
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Touched with Fire

By Eric M. Bergerud ,

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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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Sea of Glory

By Nathaniel Philbrick ,

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Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II
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Enterprise

By Barrett Tillman ,

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The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
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The Happy Isles of Oceania

By Paul Theroux ,

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Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds
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Mutiny on the Bounty

By Peter FitzSimons ,

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The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise
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The Big E

By Edward P. Stafford ,

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Last Chapter
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Last Chapter

By Ernie Pyle ,

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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
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438 Days

By Jonathan Franklin ,

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Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of World War II
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Bones of My Grandfather

By Clay Bonnyman Evans ,

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The Beach of Falesa
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The Beach of Falesa

By Robert Louis Stevenson ,

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South Pacific Handbook
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South Pacific Handbook

By David Stanley ,

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Desperate Voyage
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Desperate Voyage

By John Caldwell ,

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Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma
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Bright Lights, Prairie Dust

By Karen Grassle ,

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Night Sky
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Night Sky

By Rola Shaw , Lara Hawthorne (illustrator) ,

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Hokule'a: The Way to Tahiti
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Hokule'a

By Ben R. Finney ,

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Kon Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
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Kon Tiki

By Thor Heyerdahl , F. H. Lyon ,

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The Sea and the Bells
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The Sea and the Bells

By Pablo Neruda , William O'Daly (translator) ,

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So Long for Now: A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin
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So Long for Now

By Jerry L. Rogers ,

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