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Species with Amnesia: Our Forgotten History

Robert Sepehr - Atlantean Gardens
Format: Paperback


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The Brothers: Inside the Private Worlds of William and Harry

Christopher Andersen - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Diana's Boys revealed the iron-strong bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother's tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned...
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions

STEPHEN HAWKING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind."Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity's...
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Storyof World War II's Most Dramatic Mission

Hampton Sides - Perfection Learning
Format: Library Binding

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese...
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50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.

Brent D. Glass - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain - selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.From Massachusetts to Florida...
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Simon Winchester
Format: Hardcover

The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property - our proprietary relationship with the land - through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future.Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland...
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24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy

Nora Neus - ?Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A gripping oral history of the white nationalist riots that shook the nation and signaled the arrival of a galvanizing new era, told from the perspective of the anti-racist activists who fought backOn August 11 and 12, 2017, armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia...
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The Ghost Map: The Story of Londons Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback

A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year. Its the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure-garbage removal, clean water, sewers-necessary to support...
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld

T J English - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot;...
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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Camilla Townsend - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

In November 1519, Hernando Corts walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After...
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