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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
Jerry Brotton · Viking Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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The gripping story of Queen Elizabeth's bold alliance with the Ottoman sultan by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsPublished in the UK as This Orient IsleLong before the Barbary Pirates challenged Thomas Jefferson, English merchants travelled... |
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The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History
Brian Fagan · Bloomsbury Press Pages: 308 Format: Print book
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Animals, and our ever-changing relationship with them, have left an indelible mark on human history. From the dawn of our existence, animals and humans have been constantly redefining their relationship with one another, and entire civilizations have risen and fallen upon this curious bond... |
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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 Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Michael J Klarman · Oxford University Press Pages: 880 Format: Print book
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Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War
DAVID FISHER · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman · Random House Pages: 937 Format: Print book
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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Read On ... Romance: Reading Lists for Every Taste
C. L. Quillen · Libraries Unlimited Format: Paperback
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With thousands of romance novels published each year, librariansespecially those unfamiliar with or indifferent to the genrecan benefit from this well-organized, reference that offers scores of appeals-based read-alike lists for some of the most popular, contemporary romance fiction. Describes... |
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The Story of Egypt : The Civilization That Shaped the World
Joann Fletcher · Pegasus Books Pages: 496 Format: Print book
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The story of the world's greatest civilization -- spanning 4,000 years of history -- full of epic stories, spectacular places, and an evolving society rich in inventors, heroes, villains, and pioneers. The story of the world's greatest civilization spans 4,000 years of history that has shaped... |
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A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
Edmund Levin · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Pages: 377 Format: Print book
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A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months... |
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Julius Chambers: A Life in the Legal Struggle for Civil Rights
Richard A Rosen · The University of North Carolina Press Pages: 408 Format: Print book
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Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936-2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson · Simon & Schuster Pages: 304 Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history:... |
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