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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

SHEELAH KOLHATKAR · RANDOM HOUSE
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

For readers of deeply reported nonfiction such as The Big Short and Dark Money comes the story of the largest insider trading investigation in history - and the rise and fall of the Wall Street legend who rewrote all the rules.
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

IAN BLACK · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

From a long-time Guardian correspondent and editor, an expansive, authoritative, and balanced account of over a century of violent confrontation, war, and occupation in Palestine and Israel, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and 50th anniversary of the Six-Day...
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The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments

Lynne Kelly · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places -- and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals...
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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

John Mack Faragher · W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Pages: 624
Format: Print book

"John Mack Faragher is one fine writer, bringing early L.A. to life as the setting for all manner of horrific killings and gruesome justice. Eternity Street will keep you up at night ruminating on the roots of American violence." -- Richard Wightman Fox, University of Southern...
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas. Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising...
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The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It

Jeanne Lenzer · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Did you know...- Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America, killing more Americans each year than diabetes, murders, car accidents and AIDS combined. - An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial...
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The Russian Revolution: A New History

Sean McMeekin · Basic Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

In The Russian Revolution, historian Sean McMeekin traces the origins and events of the Russian Revolution, which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and changed the course of world history. Between 1900 and 1920, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation:...
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Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best

Susan E Eaton · The New Press, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. In Utah,...
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America

Wendy Warren · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 345
Format: Print book

The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this more...
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story

Miriam C Davis · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

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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When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History's Unknown Chapters

Giles Milton · Picador Usa
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

More addictive and mind-blowing true tales from history, told by Giles Milton -- one of today's most entertaining and accessible yet always intelligent and illuminating historiansIn the second installment in his outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters, Giles...
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution

Bryan Shih · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: eBook

October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, an organization that remains one of the most misunderstood of the 20th century. But beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and beyond charismatic...
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Joe Gould's teeth

Jill Lepore · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

"A "New Yorker" staff writer and Harvard historian chronicles the discovery of Joe Gould's long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time," and of the violence, betrayals, and madness that led to its concealment,"--NoveList.From New Yorker staff writer...
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

SARAH SMARSH · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling...
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