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But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging
Hala Gorani - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people... |
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
Ronald Drabkin - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief - and richly rewards it." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ; Best Books of February SelectionThe untold story of the World... |
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To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
Noah Feldman - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar... |
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The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
Michael Wolraich - Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall's dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning... |
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Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons
Sarah Scoles - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape. Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Despite... |
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America
James Traub - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey's role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America Hubert Humphrey was liberalism's most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrifice. As a young politician in 1948, he defied segregationists and forced the Democratic... |
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Little Ohio: Small-Town Destinations
Jane Simon Ammeson - Quarry Books
Format: Paperback
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Where can you travel the Erie Canal on a boat pulled by a horse? What is Wapakoneta, and what does it have to do with Neil Armstrong? Where can you eat ice cream at a stop on the Underground Railroad? . Find these answers and more in Little Ohio: Small-Town Destinations. Author and blogger... |
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