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The Great Artists: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Thomas Stevens · Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the foremost Impressionist artists, known for his en plein air scenes of middle-class leisure. But Renoir's primary interest lay indoors, in depictions of sensuous female nudes and intimate domestic scenes, painted in a warm, bright palette. This book...
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An Army Doctor's American Revolution Journal, 1775–1783

James Thacher · Dover Publications
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

At the age of 21, James Thacher (1754-1844) joined the newly formed American army as a surgeon's mate, eventually advancing to the role of surgeon for the Massachusetts 16th Regiment. In 1823, he published his Journal, reporting both wartime events he witnessed and those he heard...
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Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Birth of the Red Power Movement

Martinez, David · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

In Life of the Indigenous Mind David Martínez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005) , the most influential indigenous activist and writer of the twentieth century and one of the intellectual...
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Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

Steve Murphy · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña In the decades they spent at the DEA, Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers. But their biggest challenge was the hunt...
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The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History

Jacob Kornhauser · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

The Cup of Coffee Club shares the stories of eleven men who played in just a single major league baseball game and how they responded to the heartache of never making it back. Featuring exclusive interviews with each of the players, their insight provides a unique look into the struggles...
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MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman

Ben Hubbard · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The gripping chronicle of the rise of Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler "A rare and penetrating look behind the curtain of the world's most important family and its dangerous new leader." - Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower MBS is the untold story...
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Piero Manzoni: An Artist's Life

Flaminio Gualdoni · Gagosian / Rizzoli
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Piero Manzoni was one of the most radically inventive artists of the twentieth century whose work continues to challenge the definitions of artistic sovereignty and virtuosity to this day. Immediately upon his death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Piero Manzoni's reputation as a provocateur...
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius

Bob Batchelor · Diversion Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

On the 100th anniversary of The Volstead Act comes the epic, definitive story of the man who cracked the Prohibition system, became one of the world's richest criminal masterminds, and helped inspire The Great Gatsby. Love, murder, political intrigue, mountains of cash, and rivers of bourbon...
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Face It: A Memoir

Debbie Harry · Dey Street Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Filled with never-before-seen photos and art throughout, the much-anticipated autobiography from rock icon and lead singer of Blondie, Debbie HarryBRAVE, BEAUTIFUL AND BORN TO BE PUNK Musician, actor, activist, and the iconic face of New York City cool, Debbie Harry is the frontwoman of Blondie,...
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Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America

Stephanie Gorton · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm - as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in AmericaThe president of the United States made headlines around the world when...
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