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Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

Jack Carr - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.. 1983:...
 
 
Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth

Richard Esposito - Crime Ink
Format: Hardcover

"Do not. Confuse me. With. The facts. I tell the truth." -- Jimmy Breslin. The first-ever biography of America's greatest crime reporter In a newspaper career spanning decades, Jimmy Breslin covered the stories that he knew mattered most: the human stories beyond the front...
 
 
Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul

Aran Robert Shetterly - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

An unflinching look at the all but forgotten though no less shocking 1979 racial tragedy that divided Greensboro, N.C., and the nation, and the grassroots activists who, in their tireless fight for justice, refused to give up on America's promised ideals.On November 3, 1979, as activist...
 
 
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...
 
 
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music

Inc National Public Radio - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America's Politics Forever

Chris Wallace - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

A riveting new work and fresh take on the lead-up to the presidential election of 1960, drawing timely parallels to the choice Americans face in 2024. It's January 2, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy declared his candidacy; and with this opening scene, Chris...
 
 
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...
 
 
Explorers: A New History (A Norton Short)

Matthew Lockwood - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity.Unfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange....
 
 
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

Abbott Kahler - Crown
Format: Hardcover

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...
 
 
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

H. W. Brands - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis,...