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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing - Basic Books; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book -- with over 200,000 copies sold -- has long... |
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The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Format: electronic resource
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.“Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect... |
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
David Guterson
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardAmerican Booksellers Association Book of the Year AwardSan Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drown |
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much... |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared M. Diamond - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."―Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped... |
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