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Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

Lee Durkee - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A darkly humorous and spellbinding detective story that chronicles one Mississippi man's relentless search for an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare.. Following his divorce, down-and-out writer and Mississippi exile Lee Durkee holed himself up in a Vermont fishing shack and fell...
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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

Cara Fitzpatrick - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education - one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school . America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack. With declining...
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The Herstory of Art: The Untold Story of Women in Art

Noah Charney - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then ... even a regular museum-goer might run out of steam. What about female curators, critics, patrons,...
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Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic (Early American Studies)

Michael A. Blaakman - University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover

During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann - Vintage
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Lost City of Z.In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation...
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While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the "University of Idaho Murders," offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the media's seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations,...
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Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures - including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today's Republican Party - written with his full cooperation by an award-winning...
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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

Dolly Parton - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive. In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first...
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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

Fergus M. Bordewich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil - when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist...
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To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment

Bret Baier - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates George Washington's indispensable contributions to America's founding"To Rescue The Constitution is a masterful exploration of the electrifying struggle to unite a young United States." - Jay WinikA sweeping narrative...
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