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Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen - Modern Library; 2nd edition
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully written love affair of AfricaIsak Dinesen, nee Karen Blixen, lived in East Africa for almost twenty years making a living as the proprietor of a coffee plantation. Out of Africa is a memoir of her experiences there. But the book is so much more.The stories are interesting... |
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Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg: And Virginia's Historic Triangle
Sue Corbett - Globe Pequot
Format: Print book
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Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. Written by a local (and true insider) , this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the cities... |
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The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they tell us about Western political,... |
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'Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North
Paul Taylor - Stackpole Books
Format: Hardcover
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James McPherson's classic book For Cause & Comrades explained "why men fought in the Civil War" - and spurred countless other historians to ask and attempt to answer the same question. But few have explored why men did not fight. That's the question Paul Taylor answers... |
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi
Format: Hardcover
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The story begins in 1619 - a year before the Mayflower - when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants... |
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Music: A Subversive History
Ted Gioia - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the dawn of civilization to the modern-day music scene, this breathtaking global history reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate... |
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