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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation (A Norton Short)

Tiya Miles - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America.Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations...
 
 
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I - this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. . September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden...
 
 
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

Anderson Cooper - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story - of ambition, invention, destruction,...
 
 
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot - Dey Street Books
Format: Audio CD

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted...
 
 
The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper

Paul Sheard - Matt Holt
Format: eBook

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER. Money permeates our everyday lives - it literally makes the economic world go round - and yet confusion and controversy about money abound.. In The Power of Money, economist Paul Sheard distills what money is, how it comes into existence, and how it interacts...
 
 
Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse

Kim Wickens - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A vivid portrait of America's greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, and the dramatic times in which they lived." - Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse. The powerful true story of the champion Thoroughbred racehorse who gained...
 
 
A History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II

Kanaya Shunichiro - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback

The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!. A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from its misty origins up to the present day. Epic battles, noble Samurai and duplicitous leaders are all portrayed in modern manga fashion!...