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Martin Dugard

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Martin Dugard is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of the Taking Series — including Taking Berlin (2022) and Taking Paris (2021).

Book Two in the Taking series is titled Taking Berlin, covering the final nine months of World War II in Europe. Taking Berlin goes on sale November 1, 2022.

He is also the co-author of the mega-million selling Killing books, the bestselling non-fiction series in history: Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, Killing Reagan, Killing England, Killing the Rising Sun, Killing the SS, Killing Crazy Horse, Killing the Mob, and the upcoming Killing the Killers.

Other works include the New York Times bestseller The Murder of King Tut (with James Patterson; Little, Brown, 2009); The Last V ...more

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	Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone 4.15 avg rating — 7,597 ratings — published 2002 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook 4.33 avg rating — 2,486 ratings — published 2001 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights 4.27 avg rating — 1,646 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Discovery 4.12 avg rating — 1,668 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking on a 5-K Makes You a Better Person and the World a Better Place 3.78 avg rating — 1,091 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich 4.26 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization 4.30 avg rating — 598 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 4.15 avg rating — 593 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success 3.71 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Taking Midway: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II 4.46 avg rating — 514 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I stood in my backyard last night. Just before 1 a.m. It wasn't meant to be a symbolic moment. In truth, I was just letting the dogs out to pee before calling it a night. But in the crisp darkness and 50 degree temperature I call California-cold, I looked up at the sky and saw the three bright diagonal stars of Orion's belt blazing just above. Ptolemy named Orion one of the original 48 constellat

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“To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons.”
― Martin Dugard, To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking on a 5-K Makes You a Better Person and the World a Better Place

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“To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.”
― Martin Dugard

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“If we want to score a victory, we must actively make use of lies. They have to be big. The bigger the lies the quicker people will believe them,” Adolf Hitler stated, coining the term “Big Lie.” Hitler used the Big Lie to spread untruths about Germany’s Jewish population. Dictator Joseph Stalin didn’t much like Hitler, but he appropriated the Big Lie to explain purges of Soviet citizens. In America, almost a century later, the Big Lie is now woven into the fabric of daily political discourse.”
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Polls

This poll is for the 'first' quarterly Non-fiction selection in our BT group. We had an outstanding response in nominations, with even more members holding off for the next quarter. I can only hope to see a book discussion that is half as lively.

Should we have a tie, there will be a very short 3 day additional poll to select one winner this quarter. However, if this non-fiction selection stays this popular - there could be multiple winners in the future. Time and thread participation will tell...

Please vote for your choice below...

Thanks and Happy Reading...

Educated

by Tara Westover

15 votes, 21.4%

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

by Maxwell King

13 votes, 18.6%

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

8 votes, 11.4%

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson

4 votes, 5.7%

The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

by John Kelly

4 votes, 5.7%

Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

by Drema Hall Berkheimer

3 votes, 4.3%

To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire

by David Cowan

3 votes, 4.3%

My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business

by Dick Van Dyke

3 votes, 4.3%

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

by Masaji Ishikawa

3 votes, 4.3%

A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild

by Jennifer Bove

3 votes, 4.3%

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

by Susan Freinkel

2 votes, 2.9%

Gold Dust Woman: A Biography of Stevie Nicks

by Steven Davis

2 votes, 2.9%

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

2 votes, 2.9%

Eggshell Skull: A memoir about standing up, speaking out and fighting back

by Bri Lee

1 vote, 1.4%

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

by Martin Dugard

1 vote, 1.4%

Rick Mercer Final Report

by Rick Mercer

1 vote, 1.4%

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

1 vote, 1.4%

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

by Malala Yousafzai

1 vote, 1.4%

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

by Catherine Kerrison

0 votes, 0.0%

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

by Conor Grennan

0 votes, 0.0%

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