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This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

Jon Mooallem · RANDOM HOUSE
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster--and the unlikely woman around whom it pulled together.

In 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis--the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. Then, just...

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Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

Geoffrey Cain · Currency
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

An explosive exposé of one of the biggest and most secretive companies in the world, Samsung, as the Korean juggernaut battles Apple and Sony to dominate the world of technology

Based on years of reporting on Samsung for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Time,...
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942

Richard B. Frank · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 836
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening, pathbreaking account of the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal.

In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world's population, all save a fraction enduring under some form...

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Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best

Neal Bascomb · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing.

They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver...
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Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang

Boessenecker, John · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The little-known story of how a young Wyatt Earp, aided by his brothers, defeated the Cowboys, the Old West's biggest outlaw gang.

Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story...
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Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward

James Howard Kunstler · BENBELLA BOOKS
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that would pitch the USA into political and economic turmoil in the 21st century—the end of affordable oil, climate irregularities, and flagging economic growth, to name a few. Now, he returns...
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