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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley · Da Capo Press
Pages: 912
Format: Paperback
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A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West... |
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Matter of honor
Anthony Summers · Harpercollins
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky · Bloomsbury
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings... |
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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
Tara Zahra · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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"With a combination of deft historical analysis, sparkling prose, and careful attention to individual stories, both poignant and instructive, The Great Departure is brimming with important and suggestive lessons from the past for thinking about the worldwide dynamics of emigrants and refugees... |
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Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
WILLARD STERNE RANDALL · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 452
Format: Hardcover
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Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global... |
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1947: Where Now Begins
Elisabeth A?sbrink · Other Press
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her personal history.The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats... |
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
Edith Sheffer · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis.In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully... |
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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography
Elaine Showalter · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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The first full biography of Julia Ward Howe - the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and an early and powerful feminist pioneer - a groundbreaking figure in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.Julia Ward (1819-1910) was a heiress and aspiring poet when she married Dr. Samuel... |
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
James Lee Mcdonough · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented... |
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Paper: Paging Through History
Mark Kurlansky · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 389
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 306
Format: Print book
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders,... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman · Custom House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations... |
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Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
Barbara Leaming · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically... |
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