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There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The U.S.A." and the End of the Heartland

Steven Hyden - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. - a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America. On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums...
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Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold

Keith Thomson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a competition with Spanish conquistadors for the legendary city's treasure. As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior,...
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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Norman Ohler - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs.Berlin 1945. Following the fall...
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The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding

William Hogeland - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

"William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander." -- J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Slouching Towards UtopiaHow Alexander Hamilton...
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous...
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The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography

Jon Meacham - Random House
Format: Hardcover

In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of George H. W. Bush's birth, this visually stunning chronicle features never-before-published photos and memories celebrating the forty-first president's vision of leadership as service to country - curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer...
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The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII

Nahlah Ayed

On opposite sides of the pond, Sonia Butt, an adventurous young British woman, and Guy d’Artois, a French-Canadian soldier and thunderstorm of a man, are preparing for war. From different worlds, their lives first intersect during clandestine training to become agents with Winston...
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Vanishing Act: The Enduring Mystery Behind the Legendary Doolittle Raid over Tokyo

Dan Hampton - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton comes the gripping, untold story of a vital secret mission set during the darkest days of the Second World War.. In the dark days after the devastating Pearl Harbor attacks during the spring of 1942, the United States was determined to show...
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House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

Justine Firnhaber-Baker

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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

Adam Smyth - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them. Books tell all kinds of stories - romances, tragedies, comedies - but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into...
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