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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
Edwin Frank · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Washington Post most anticipated fall bookA legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.. "How can we live differently?" a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf's novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death... |
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Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
John Haywood · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, ranging from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens to the story of shipbuilding, navigation, maritime exploration, slavery, and nascent European imperialism.. A dazzling and ambitious history... |
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Endurance: The Discovery of Shackleton's Legendary Ship
John Shears · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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This is the amazing story in words and images of the historic discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, deep beneath the ice of Antarctica.. In March 2022, an international polar expedition team made an astonishing find: the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's legendary... |
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century's greatest unsung power players. When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were predictably scathing - and many... |
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