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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop... |
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1876: The Year Bat, Wyatt, Custer, Jesse, and the Two Bills
Steve Wiegand - ?Bancroft Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces -- or re-introduces -- us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws such as the Younger and James Brothers, as well as larger-than-life figures such as Buffalo... |
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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Jason Stanley - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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"I've never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism." - Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation... |
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Vol. 1 (July 1937 - May 1942)
Richard Frank - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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An eye-opening, path-breaking account of the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal. In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the worlds population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism.... |
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "This is history at its most immediate and moving ... A marvelous and memorable book." - Jon Meacham "Remarkable ... A priceless civic gift ... On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken."... |
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
Debby Applegate - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite... |
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years... |
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Betty Crocker Lost Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes for Today's Kitchen
BETTY CROCKER - Betty Crocker
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cookBetty Crocker Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes with... |
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Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Joseph Horowitz - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white" -- how it got to be that way and what can be done about it.In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvork prophesied a "great and noble" school of American classical music based on the searing "negro... |
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