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The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

Yuval Levin · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset:...
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Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight

William Hazelgrove · Prometheus Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first "flying machine."How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school...
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Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering

Siobhan Roberts · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

With Wind Wizard Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport - the father of modern wind engineering who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earths natural and built environments--and how when not properly heeded wind causes buildings and bridges to teeter...
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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War

Eva Dillon · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer - the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon was living in New Delhi with her family...
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis

Julie Kavanagh · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Nureyev, the definitive biography of the celebrated Russian dancer, now comes the astonishing and unknown story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who inspired Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel and play La dame aux camélias, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata,...
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Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future

Caitlin Shetterly · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary...
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Media Lynching: The Persecution of Michael Skakel

Robert F Kennedy · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

In 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley's body was found in the backyard of her family's Connecticut home, and a member of America's beloved Kennedy family, then also fifteen, was accused of the crime. What ensued was a media firestorm and a whodunit that transfixed the nation,...
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Georgette Heyer

Jennifer Kloester · Sourcebooks
Format: Book

A wonderful entertaining biographyxa readable and lively account of this beloved writerxEloisa James New York Times bestselling author Required reading for all lovers of Regency novelsxMary Jo Putney New York Times bestselling author of No Longer a Gentleman A superb portrayal of one of my all-time...
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A Dog's Gift: The Inspirational Story of Veterans and Children Healed by Man's Best Friend

Bob Drury · Rodale Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A decade ago, former military counterintelligence officer Terry Henry joined his precocious young daughter, Kyria, on a trip to a nursing home in order to allow its residents to play with their family dog, a golden retriever named riley. Terry was astounded by the transformations that unfolded...
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The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster

Chris Adams · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover

In The Grail Guitar: The Search for Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze Telecaster, Chris Adams takes readers on a fascinating mystery tour to determine whether a Fender Telecaster bought secondhand in a London music store in 1973 was the one used by Jimi Hendrix to record "Purple Haze"...
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Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History

Joseph Telushkin · HarperWave
Format: Hardcover

One of the greatest religious biographies ever written. Dennis PragerIn this enlightening biography, Joseph Telushkin offers a captivating portrait of the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a towering figure who saw beyond conventional boundaries to turn his movement, Chabad-Lubavitch,...
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Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913

DANIEL WOLFF · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America - woven together in one epic...
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The Last Rescue: How Faith and Love Saved a Navy SEAL Sniper

Joel Kilpatrick · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

In the aftermath of war, a Navy SEAL finds faith, hope, and love. Howard Wasdin, author of SEAL Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper twenty-two weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, survived the firestorm made famous in Black Hawk Down only to return to a world without...
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A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

KERRI RAWSON · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) , tells the nightmarish story of that discovery and of her long journey of faith and healing.In 2005, Dennis Rader...
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

Don Piper · Revell
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In the ten years since 90 Minutes in Heaven was published, millions of people worldwide have read the incredible true story of Don Piper's experience with death and life--and in reading they have found their own lives changed.After a semi-truck collided with Don Piper's car, he was pronounced...
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