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NO TURNING BACK : life, loss, and hope in wartime syria

RANIA ABOUZEID · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400

Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos...
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Ask A North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the WorldÆs Most Secretive Nation

DANIEL TUDOR · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic...
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

BRIAN CASTNER · Doubleday
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling...
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The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women's Liberation

BONNIE J MORRIS · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Explores the global history and contributions of the feminist revolution.The Feminist Revolution offers an overview of women's struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth century. Beginning with the auspicious founding of the National Organization for Women in 1966, at a time when...
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

ELAINE F WEISS · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as...
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The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty

MARY HOLLINGSWORTH · Pegasus Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, by the acclaimed author of The Cardinal's Hat and The Borgias.Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political...
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Paul: A Biography

NT Wright · HarperOne
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian theology - transforming a faith and changing...
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Eat the Apple

Matt Young · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner) --a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined...
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

Catherine Hewitt · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful...
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The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery

Noel Rae · The Overlook Press
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes readers from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America,...
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