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New Titles - History
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
Wright Thompson - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read ... Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this." - Kiese Laymon,... |
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Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.. She describes... |
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Rebecca Nagle - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century... |
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
David Chaffetz - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating history of civilization that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce, and conquest.No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early... |
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The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
Valerie Bauerlein - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Valerie Bauerlein's blistering, unforgettable account of the Murdaugh saga leaves no stone unturned, helping us finally truly understand the man at the center of one of the century's wildest crime stories." - Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls.... |
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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Maureen Callahan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER "The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing, incendiary" exposé of the real Kennedy Curse - the family's generations-long... |
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. "A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear-sighted and fearless... |
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The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free
Pete Hegseth - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERReal men fought for our freedoms. It's time we fought for theirs.Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color... |
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