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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
Jane Kamensky - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life -- and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur.... |
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The Shadows of Socrates: The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind the Trial of Socrates
Matt Gatton - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for the first time how the philosopher was set up, who did it, and why.. The influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates has been... |
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND. Take a well-fed nine-year-old... |
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
David Gibbins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's... |
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Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition
Mark Walczynski - 3 Fields Books
Format: Paperback
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Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers... |
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In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
Jonna Mendez - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War. Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband,... |
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What Would Reagan Do?: Life Lessons from the Last Great President
Chris Christie - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president?. A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh... |
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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
Philippa Gregory - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating... |
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