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Gold Fever! Deadly Cold! And the Amazing True Adventures of Jack London in the Wild
In 1897, the California native went to the frozen North looking for gold. What he found instead was the great American novel
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Che's Kid Hits the Road
Why I rode a Harley-Davidson around Cuba with the son of the revolutionary icon
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All Fired Up!
How three guys from Houston are igniting a revolution in Texas barbecue
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Behind the Lines
The untold story of the secret U.S. mission to capture priceless mapping data held by the Nazis
Departments
Long Division
Even after a terrible barrier comes down, an artist conjures its haunting presence
The News From Over There
Inside an unprecedented effort to find and preserve a million letters from U.S. service members during wartime
Love, American Style
A new history of getting hitched reveals the only thing that people are not in a hurry to do
How to Boost Morale
The song that launched the Greatest Generation, from bandleader Glenn Miller, who was lost at sea 75 years ago
Snow Job
You don't have to ski on cornflakes because Hollywood's quest for authenticity on-screen triggered an avalanche of frozen innovation
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