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The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee · Penguin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI's hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan - known as the Spy Who Couldn't Spell. Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme...
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Fashion is freedom : a girl from Tehran and her rise to the runway

Tala Raassi · Sourcebooks
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The inspiring true story of how courage, a dream, and some needle and thread can change a life forever... Since she was young, Tala Raassi knew her fate lay in fashion. But growing up in her beloved homeland of Iran, a woman can be punished for exposing her hair in public, let alone wearing...
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The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran

Nazila Fathi · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In the summer of 2009, as she was covering the popular uprisings in Tehran for the New York Times, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi received a phone call. "They have given your photo to snipers," a government source warned her. Soon after, with undercover agents closing in, Fathi...
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Novel Destinations, Second Edition: A Travel Guide to Literary Landmarks From Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West

Shannon Mckenna Schmidt · National Geographic
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover

Follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, including Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austen, and many more. For vacationers who crave meaningful trips and unusual locales, cue National Geographic's Novel Destinations - a guide for bibliophiles...
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Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

Nick Offerman · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman - who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman,...
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Matter of honor

Anthony Summers · Harpercollins
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor - and clear...
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Guantánamo Diary

Mohamedou Ould Slahi · Little, Brown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee.Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime....
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Lee

Lee Radziwill · Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 2015.
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

As begun in the best-selling Happy Times, her first book with Assouline, Lee Radziwill's colorful journey continues in the much-anticipated Lee. In this quest or privacy and freedom within a highly publicized life, Radziwill shares her unique perspective as a witness to history, recalling...
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Marina Keegan · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worlds attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude...
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Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

Bettina Stangneth · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmannmdasha superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendtrsquos notion...
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Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece

Andrew Levy · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A provocative, exuberant, and deeply researched investigation into Mark Twain's writing of Huckleberry Finn, which turns on its head everything we thought we knew about America's favorite icon of childhood.In Huck Finn's America, award-winning biographer Andrew Levy shows how modern...
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A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts

J W Ocker · Countryman Press
Pages: 338
Format: Print book

Edgar Award-winning travel writer spends an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations: Salem, MassachusettsSalem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. A single event in its 400 years of history -- the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 -- transformed it into...
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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

Diane Guerrero · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

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Obsessed

M William Phelps · Pinnacle Books
Pages: 500
Format: Paperback

"Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience." --Suspense MagazineSheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met the man of her dreams. Nelson Sessler had no idea how violently...
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American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

Alex Beam · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.At thirty-nine years...
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