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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

Ben Ehrenreich · Penguin Press
Pages: 428
Format: Print book

From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest...
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Kaplan AP U.S. History 2013-2014 (Kaplan AP Series)

Denise Pivarnik-Nova · Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

The best-selling Advanced Placement test preparation guide that delivers 70 years of proven Kaplan experience and features exclusive strategies, practice, and review to help students ace the AP U.S. History exam!Students spend the school year preparing for the AP U.S. History test. Now it's...
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They Bled Blue: Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers

Jason Turbow · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The wildly entertaining narrative of the outrageous 1981 Dodgers from the award-winning author of Dynastic, Fantastic, Bombastic and The Baseball Codes In the Halberstam tradition of capturing a season through its unforgettable figures, They Bled Blue is a sprawling, mad tale of excess...
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Murder In Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy

HELENE STAPINSKI · Dey Street Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

"A murder mystery, a model of investigative reporting, a celebration of the fierce bonds that hold families together through tragedies ... Murder in Matera is a gem." - San Francisco Chronicle "Tantalizing" - NPR "A thrilling detective story ... Stapinski pursues...
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

Margaret O'Mara · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest...
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High Time

Louise Hillary · Dutton
Pages: 192
Format: Book

Book by Hillary, Louise
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail

Jonathan Chait · Custom House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from...
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House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World's Most Powerful Address

Michael Gross · Atria Books
Pages: 394
Format: Hardcover

In real estate-obsessed New York, no new building has captured the city's imagination - or as many of its richest residents - as Fifteen Central Park West. In House of Outrageous Fortune, America's foremost chronicler of the upper crust, journalist and bestselling author Michael...
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The Polish Way

Adam Zamoyski · F. Watts
Pages: 422
Format: Book

This title is now out of print. Please see Adam Zamoyski's new book POLAND: A HISTORY, available September 1, 2012.
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The Heartland: An American History

Kristin L. Hoganson · Penguin Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A history of a quintessentially American place - the rural and small town heartland -- that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area...
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

Manal al-Sharif · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold....
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