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How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
Inc National Public Radio - HarperOne Format: Hardcover
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Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music - from Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton - featuring archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations.Turning... |
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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes... |
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell - and the ones we don't - shape our realities.. "[Coates] is intellectually fearless . . . unshackled by political or racial ideology,... |
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
Abbott Kahler - Crown Format: Hardcover
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An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos - from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park. At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists... |
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell - Viking Format: Paperback
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From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century's greatest unsung power players. When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing - and many... |
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Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic
Lindsay M. Chervinsky - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.. The United States of 1797 faced enormous challenges, provoked by enemies... |
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Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy
Richard Blakemore - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire.. The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world... |
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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An instant New York Times bestseller! . "It literally changed my outlook on the world ... incredible." - Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel ... The Barn describes not just the poison... |
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Question 7
Richard Flanagan - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author's life and family, and the role of fiction in our times. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's... |
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