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Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion

Mark Harmon - Harper Select
Format: Hardcover

Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a rigger of elections. Intimidation on the streets is a daily reality for U.S. personnel and their...
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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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Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

Christopher Cox - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A timely reassessment of Woodrow Wilson and his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women's voting rights.. More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses...
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Sonia Purnell - Viking
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century's greatest unsung power players. When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing - and many...
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The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States . "Candid, unflinching . . . Her thorough excavation of the painful history that gave rise to rigid enrollment policies is a courageous gift to our understanding...
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! . "It literally changed my outlook on the world ... incredible." - Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel ... The Barn describes not just the poison...
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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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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,...
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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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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....
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