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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir

Day, Daniel R. · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn't just about fashion. It's about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hustle, love, and a singular determination to live our dreams out loud." - Ava Duvernay, director of Selma,...
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Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force

Dan Schilling · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of 23 comrades-in-arms.In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot...
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Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War

Bouverie, Tim · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War IIOn a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later...
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In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves

Streever, Bill · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling exploration of the science and history of the deep sea.Full of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening...
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

O'Mara, Margaret · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest...
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

O'Neill, Tom · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

What really happened in 1969?Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order-their...
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The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story

Joy-Ann Reid · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMSNBC'S Joy-Ann Reid calculates the true price of the Trump presidency"The host of AM Joy on MSNBC argues that President Trump's administration is characterized by grift and venality that demeans the office and diminishes America." - New York...
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

Wineapple, Brenda · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president." - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated...
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

Ackerman, Elliot · Penguin Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria."War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names,...
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Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

Daniel C. Guiet · Penguin Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family...
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