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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

József Debreczeni - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking and deeply moving perspective on life within the camps - with a foreword by Jonathan Freedland. József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian-language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944;...
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Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story

Keren Blankfeld - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"Mesmerizing and inspirational." - Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days. The incredible true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war - and then...
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Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

Joy-Ann Reid - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

#1 New York Times Bestseller"Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America." - from...
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Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Crystal Hefner - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The widow of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner offers a raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, her stolen young adulthood, and her journey to finding internal validation, while providing a rare look into the final days of one of the most influential...
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Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

Victoria Sweet - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." - The New York Times Book Review Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops...
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Churchill's American Network: Winston Churchill and the Forging of the Special Relationship

Cita Stelzer - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory portrait showing how the famed British statesman created a network of American colleagues and friends who helped push our foreign policy in Britain's favor during World War II. Winston Churchill was the consummate networker. Using newly discovered documents and archives,...
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The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

Paul Landis - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns. Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial...
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The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy That Let a Killer Go Free

Gregg Olsen - Brilliance Audio
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story.In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during...
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The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics

Joshua Green - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil's Bargain comes the revelatory inside story of the uprising within the Democratic Party, of the economic populists led by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.In his classic book Devil's Bargain,...
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The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century

Benn Steil - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan comes a dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace - a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.. Henry...
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