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The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Seymour M Hersh · Verso
Pages: 176
Format: Print book |
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In 2011, a group of Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbotabad and killed Osama Bin Laden, the man the United States had been chasing since before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost Obama's first term and played a major part in his re-election... |
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Thank You for Your Service
David Finkel · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after warThe wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David... |
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The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
Thomas Fleming · Da Capo
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover |
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In the months after her husband's death, Martha Washington told several friends that the two worst days of her life were the day George died - and the day Thomas Jefferson came to Mount Vernon to offer his condolences.What could elicit such a strong reaction from the nation's original... |
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Katrina: After the Flood
Gary Rivlin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover |
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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana - on August 29, 2005 - journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting effects not just on the city's geography... |
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The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ
Brant Pitre · Image
Pages: 242
Format: Print book |
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"This book will prove to be a most effective weapon ... against the debunking and skeptical attitudes toward the Gospels that are so prevalent, not only in academe, but also on the street, among young people who, sadly, are leaving the Churches in droves." - Robert Barron, author... |
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
David Maraniss · Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 441
Format: Print book |
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"Elegiac and richly detailed...[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair...evocative." - Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already... |
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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans occupied the Four... |
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