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Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ITAMAR RABINOVICH - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually... |
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Cowboys and Gangsters: Stories of an Untamed Southwest
Samuel K Dolan - TwoDot
Format: Print book
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Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Cowboys and Gangsters tells... |
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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved... |
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN - BALLANTINE
Format: Print book
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The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolution - from the acclaimed author of The Lincolns. Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even... |
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Lawrence P. Jackson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work Finalist for the PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally.Chester B. Himes has been... |
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But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging
Hala Gorani - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people... |
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Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
H. W. Brands - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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What causesa man to forsake his country and take arms against it What prompts others, hardly distinguishable instationor success, to defend that country against the rebelsThat is the question H. W. Brands answers in his original new narrative history of the American Revolution.George Washington... |
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