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How Banksy Saved Art History

Kelly Grovier - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover

A new take on the history of art through the eyes of the international phenomenon that is Banksy.Few would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also a perceptive art historian might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad memorable...
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The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice

Simon Parkin - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world's first seed bank who faced an impossible choice during the Siege of Leningrad: eat the collection to prevent starvation, or protect their life's...
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The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

Michael Tackett - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.. In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky's Mitch McConnell....
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The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable ... What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn't the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect." - Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker. "A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden...
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Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West

Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time -- and the lawmen tasked with rooting them out.. Robbers Roost, Brown's Hole, and Hole-in-the-Wall were three hideouts...
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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter

Clare Mulley - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo.. During World War II, Elzbieta Zawacka - the WWII female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo - was the only woman to reach London as an emissary of the Polish Home Army...
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The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

Stephanie Gorton - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in AmericaIn the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Dennett. Sanger would go on to found Planned...
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How to End Christian Nationalism

Amanda Tyler - Broadleaf Books
Format: Hardcover

"A potent tool for taking action." --JEMAR TISBY"Read this book and take its lessons to heart." --KRISTIN KOBES DU MEZ"An indispensable tool in renewing civic engagement and democracy." --ANTHEA BUTLER"Timely and insightful." --ROBERT P. JONESThe...
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The Army that Never Was: George S. Patton and the Deception of Operation Fortitude

Taylor Downing - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The full, dramatic story behind Operation Fortitude - the biggest subterfuge of World War II - and the plan to mislead the Germans into thinking that the invasion of Europe would come at Pas-de-Calais.. On May 29th, 1944, General George S. Patton gave a speech in the southeast of England...
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Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating Organ

Elsa Richardson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating - and often secret - history of the body's most fascinating system: the gut.. The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent, inconspicuous, and content. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy, often...
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