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Broke: The Plan to Restore Our Trust, Truth and Treasure
Glenn Beck - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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Beck makes the case that when you're traveling in the wrong direction, slight course corrections won't cut it. He exposes the idea of "transformation" for the progressive smokescreen that it is, while maintaining that a return to individual rights, an uncompromising adherence... |
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new writer."... |
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
Anand Gopal - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the deadIn a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid detail the lives of three Afghans caught... |
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Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope
Gail Sheehy - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually... |
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SIMON WINCHESTER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Morocco
Dk Publishing. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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Explore Morocco's busy city streets, historic mosques, and delicious food. Discover the different regions of Morocco, and see the beautiful culture firsthand through events, festivals, and local markets.Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Morocco. * Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss"... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II
Wil S. Hylton - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy.. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports... |
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America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great
Ben Carson M.D. - Zondervan; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place? In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent... |
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound... |
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The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter - W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race -- not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked... |
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Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F. Geithner - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerLos Angeles Times BestsellerStress Test is the story of Tim Geithner's education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama's secretary of the Treasury, Timothy... |
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Eat the Apple
Matt Young - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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"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... |
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade
The New Yorker Magazine - Random House; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Including contributions byW. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop John Cheever Janet Flanner John Hersey Langston Hughes Shirley Jackson A. J. Liebling William Maxwell Carson McCullers Joseph Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Ogden Nash John OHara George Orwell V. S. Pritchett Lillian Ross... |
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
BRET BAIER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 bestselling author of Three Days in January and Anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News Channel reveals as never before President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, framed around the historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit.In his acclaimed #1 national... |
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Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Cokie Roberts - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women... |
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Germs : Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
Judith Miller - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomb-lets spewing anthrax spores over battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square -- these are the poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons of mass destruction that can be made in a simple laboratory. In this groundbreaking... |
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The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures
AARON MAHNKE - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, from the host of the hit podcast Lore, soon to be an online streaming series.They live in shadows - deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They're spoken... |
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Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Eric Bogosian - Little, Brown and Company; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian GenocideIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper... |
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
MARY BEARD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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"A modern feminist classic." -- The GuardianFrom the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Victoria E. Bynum - University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
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Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River,... |
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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Chris McGreal - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed,... |
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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans occupied the Four... |
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The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War
Don Harrison Doyle - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered... |
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
Ari Shavit - Spiegel & Grau; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMISTWinner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel,... |
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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Keith Lowe - Picador
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize . "A superb and immensely important book." -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post. The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years.... The end of World War II in Europe is remembered... |
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Abolition & the Underground Railroad in Vermont
Michelle Arnosky Sherburne - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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Many believe that support for the abolition of slavery was universally accepted in Vermont, but it was actually a fiercely divisive issue that rocked the Green Mountain State. In the midst of turbulence and violence, though, some brave Vermonters helped fight for the freedom of their enslaved... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people", "offals", "rubbish", "lazy lubbers", and "crackers". By the 1850s the downtrodden included... |
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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel - Viking
Format: Print book
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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR,... |
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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The Paleo Manifesto Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health.
John Durant - Harmony Books
Format: Print book
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Combining science, culture, anthropology, and philosophy, explains how to stay healthy and live with purpose in the modern world by returning to the way humanity's hunter-gatherer ancestors ate, moved, and lived in the wild. |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARDThe phenomenal... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback
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From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international bestseller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."One hundred thousand... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots
David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against... |
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman - Alfred a Knopf Inc
Format: Hardcover
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The prize-winning historian traces the major currents of the fourteenth century, revealing the century's great historical rhythms and events and the texture of daily life at all levels of European society |
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Vermont Women, Native Americans & African Americans: Out of the Shadows of History
Cynthia D. Bittinger - The History Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Vermont's constitution, drafted in 1777, was one of the most enlightened documents of its time, but in contrast, the history of Vermont has largely been told through the stories of influential white men. This book takes a fresh look at Vermont's history, uncovering hidden stories,... |
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Vermont Rail System A Railroad Renaissance
Robert C. Jones - Evergreen Press
Format: Hardcover
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293 pages, 8.5x11", cloth with dust jacket, index, color maps & pictures, index, bibliography, rosters. "More than forty years ago, the State of Vermont and Jay Wulfson's Vermont Railway joined forces to buy and revitalize key components of the moribund Rutland Railroad. Today,... |
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Edward Dolnick - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold... |
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Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Nancy Marie Brown - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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An Indie Next pick for December 2012, Song of the Vikings brings to life Snorri Sturluson, wealthy chieftain, wily politician, witty storyteller, and the sole source of Viking lore for all of Western literature. Tales of one-eyed Odin, Thor and his mighty hammer, the trickster Loki, and the beautiful... |
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Silent Cal's Almanack: The Homespun Wit and Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge
David Pietrusza - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Book
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A treasury of the wit and wisdom of Calvin Coolidge, America's surprisingly eloquent 30th President. Silent Cal's Almanack includes: The ultimate distillation of Calvin Coolidge political wisdom. A selection of Silent Cal's key speeches. A thought-provoking original... |
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Katrina: After the Flood
Gary Rivlin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana - on August 29, 2005 - journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting effects not just on the city's geography... |
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
Stephen Kinzer - Times Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures... |
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach,... |
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Walter R. Borneman - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous,... |
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oral fortune, the victim of a con man Or were her own family the real villains This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause clbre that has captivated... |
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
Mitchell Zuckoff - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.. 13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby... |
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Paul R Krugman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Audiobook
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The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how todays crisis parallels the Great Depression -- and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become... |
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis... |
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Vermont Beer:: History of a Brewing Revolution
Kurt Staudter - The History Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Vermonters love all things local, so it is no surprise that the Green Mountain State has had a thriving craft beer scene for more than twenty years. Early Vermont brewers, though, faced many obstacles in bringing their beer to the thirsty masses, including a state-imposed prohibition beginning... |
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Judith Flanders - St Martin'S Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder, an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than... |
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