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Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon
Daniel Gordis · Knopf
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Library Journal01/01/2014
British/Israeli journalist Landau (former editor in chief, Haaretz; Piety and Power: The World of Jewish Fundamentalism) seeks to elucidate the military, political, and social history of Israel by focusing on the life and impact of Ariel Sharon (b. 1928). Having... |
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The Obamas
Jodi Kantor · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
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When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible.Then they... |
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Naming Jack the Ripper
Russell Edwards · Lyons Press
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After 125 years of theorizing and speculation regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper, Russell Edwards is in the unique position of owning the first physical evidence relating to the crimes to have emerged since 1888. This evidence is from one of the crime scenes, and has now been rigorously... |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life
Nancy Koester · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
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"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery... |
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