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War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945

James P. Duffy - New American Library
Format: Hardcover

A harrowing account of an epic, yet nearly forgotten, battle of World War II - General Douglas MacArthur's four-year assault on the Pacific War's most hostile battleground: the mountainous, jungle-cloaked island of New Guinea.One American soldier called it "a green hell on earth."...
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Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker

Thomas Kunkel - Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

This fascinating biography reveals the untold story of the legendary New Yorker profile writer - author of Joe Gould's Secret and Up in the Old Hotel - and unravels the mystery behind one of literary history's greatest disappearing acts. Born and raised in North Carolina, Joseph...
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Germany: Memories of a Nation

Neil MacGregor - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves?Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European...
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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia

Tim Blanning - Random House
Format: Hardcover

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, dominated the 18th century in the same way that Napoleon dominated the start of the 19th - a force of nature, a caustic, ruthless, brilliant military commander, a monarch of exceptional energy and talent, and a knowledgeable patron of artists, architects...
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The Irish Brotherhood: John F. Kennedy, His Inner Circle, and the Improbable Rise to the Presidency

Helen O'Donnell - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

The Irish Brotherhood is the history of Jack Kennedy's original political inner circle. Led by Bobby Kennedy, Kenny O'Donnell, Larry O'Brien, and Dave Powers they were tough minded, Irish-Catholic guys who were joined together by a common ambition to see Jack Kennedy through...
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

Mitchell Duneier - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book

On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto -- a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto...
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Mourning Lincoln

Martha Hodes - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons....
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

BILL O'REILLY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,...
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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800

Francois-rene Chateaubriand - NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback

Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneL de Chateaubriand's epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand...
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

STEPHEN E AMBROSE - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army.They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn...
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The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty

Tracy Borman - Grove
Format: Print book

England's Tudor monarchs - Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I - are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their political triumphs, and their overturning of the religious order are the subject of countless...
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia

James Bradley - Back Bay Books
Format: Print book

"Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia. " --"Christian Science Monitor" James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who...
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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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Eisenhower's Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France

Benjamin F Jones - Oxford University Press
Format: eBook

The challenges facing General Dwight Eisenhower before the Invasion of Normandy were not merely military but political as well. He knew that to liberate France, and to hold it, the Allies needed local help, which would necessitate coordinating with the highly independent French resistance...
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Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill

Deanne Stillman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The little known story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West - Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull - told through their time in Cody's Wild West show in the 1880s.It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. Cody - known across the land as Buffalo...
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The Perfection of the Paper Clip: Curious Tales of Invention, Accidental Genius, and Stationery Obsession

James Ward - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

This wonderfully quirky book will change the way you look at your desk forever with stories of accidental genius, bitter rivalries, and an appreciation for everyday objects, like the humble but perfectly designed paper clip and the utilitarian, irreplaceable pencil.How many of humanity's...
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A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation

Mary D. Looman - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover

The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 people out of every 100,000 are imprisoned. If those currently incarcerated in the US prison system were a country, it would be the 102nd most populated nation in the world. Aside from looking at the numbers, if we could...
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949

Ian Kershaw - Viking
Format: Print book

"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking ... . Kershaw documents each and every 'ism' of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism."...
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

David K. Shipler - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback

The expanded and updated edition of David Shipler's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that examines the relationship, past and present, between Arabs and JewsIn this monumental work, extensively researched and more relevant than ever, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices...
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National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History

Diane Harris Cline - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

On the culture that brought us democracy, the Olympics, Socrates, and Alexander the Great, this lavishly illustrated reference about ancient Greece presents the amazing history through gripping stories; the rise and fall of the phenomenal empire; the powerful legacy left by ancient Greece...
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The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991

Robert Service - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world's most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes....
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War

Arkady Ostrovsky - Viking
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written ... much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable." - New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal...
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Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s

Brad Gooch - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York Citya colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passionswith cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others...
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The Glass Universe

Dava Sobel - Viking
Format: Print book

New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR,...
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland

Rory Stewart - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of The Places in Between, "a flat-out masterpiece" (New York Times Book Review) , an exploration of the Marches - the borderland between England and Scotland - and the people, history, and conflicts that have shaped it In The Places...
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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

Denise Kiernan - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller "A soaring and gorgeous American story" (Karen Abbott) from the author of the New York Times bestselling The Girls of Atomic City. The fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore - the largest, grandest...
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The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II

Winston Groom - National Geographic Society
Format: Audiobook

Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victory in World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms...
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The Family Tree Polish, Czech And Slovak Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Family Tree in Eastern Europe

Lisa Alzo - Family Tree Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

Trace your Eastern European ancestors from American shores back to the old country. This in-depth guide will walk you step-by-step through the exciting--and challenging--journey of finding your Polish, Czech, or Slovak roots. You'll learn how to identify immigrant ancestors, find your...
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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

Fergus M Bordewich - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in US history, the First Federal Congress of 1789-1791.The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually...
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When Women Win: EMILY's List and the Rise of Women in American Politics

Ellen Malcolm - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

The dramatic inside story of the rise of women in elected office over the past quarter-century, from the pioneering founder of three-million-member EMILY's List - one of the most influential players in today's political landscape In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress,...
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A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

Bill Mesler - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life's biggest mystery: How did it begin?How did life begin?It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science's...
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind...
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Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Nathaniel Philbrick - Viking
Format: Print book

"Valiant Ambition may be one of the greatest what-if books of the age - a volume that turns one of America's best-known narratives on its head." - Boston Globe"Clear and insightful, it consolidates his reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative...
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Tong wars : the untold story of vice, money, and murder in new york's chinatown.

Scott D Seligman - Viking
Format:  Print book : English

A mesmerizing true story of money, murder, gambling, prostitution, and opium: the Chinese gang wars that engulfed New York's Chinatown from the 1890s through the 1930s.Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house...
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The Fires of Spring: A Post Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East

Shelly Culbertson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples without cause and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East movement known as the Arab...
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The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923

Sean McMeekin - Penguin Press, an imprint of Random House LLC
Format: Print book

An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle EastBetween 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict,...
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Donovan's Devils: OSS Commandos Behind Enemy LinesEurope, World War II

Albert Lulushi - Arcade Pubishing, 2016.
Format: Print book

The stirring, little-known story of the forerunners to today's Special Forces.The OSS - Office of Strategic Services - created under the command of William Donovan, has been celebrated for its cloak-and-dagger operations during World War II and as the precursor of the CIA. As the "Oh...
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Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories, 1967 to the Present

Ahron Bregman - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative and impassioned history of the aftermath of the Six Day War -- by a former Israeli soldier -- and a cogent argument for an end to the occupation. In a move that would forever alter the map of the Middle East, Israel captured the West Bank, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and Sinai...
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The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats

William Geroux - Viking
Format: Print book

"Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." - Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the BoatOne of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine...
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Strangers in a New Land: The First Americans

J M Adovasio - Firefly Books, 2015.
Format: Print book

For many years, the accepted version of American prehistory dated the arrival of peoples to the Western hemisphere between 12,900 and 13,200 years ago. This consensus, called the "Clovis Barrier," has recently been challenged by discoveries at numerous archeological sites in both...
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American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II

Jonathan W. Jordan - NAL
Format: Hardcover

American Warlords is the story of the greatest "team of rivals" since the days of Lincoln.In a lifetime shaped by politics, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proved himself a master manipulator of Congress, the press, and the public. But when war in Europe and Asia threatened America's...
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

Suzy Hansen - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Overseas Press Club of Americas Cornelius Ryan Award * Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual...
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Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party

Max Blumenthal - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover

Over the last year, award-winning journalist and videographer Max Blumenthal has been behind some of the most sensational (and funniest) exposes of Republican machinations. Whether it was his revelation that Sarah Palin was "anointed" by a Kenyan priest famous for casting out witches,...
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Iron Dawn: The Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History

Richard Snow - Scribner
Format: Print book

From acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who "writes with verve and a keen eye" (The New York Times Book Review) , the thrilling story of the naval battle that not only changed the Civil War but the future of all sea power.No single sea battle has had more far-reaching...
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe

JOHN JULIUS NORWICH - ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Format: Print book

John Julius Norwich -- who the Wall Street Journal called "the very model of a popular historian" -- has crafted a big, bold tapestry of the early sixteenth century, when Europe and the Middle East were overshadowed by a quartet of legendary rulers, all born within a ten-year...
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March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution

Will Englund - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I."We are provincials no longer," declared Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inauguration. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance...
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

Peter McPhee - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century...
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Blood in the water : the Attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy

Heather Ann Thompson - Pantheon
Format: Print book

The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice - including information never released to the public - published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.On...
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The Three Battles of Wanat: And Other True Stories

Mark Bowden - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Mark Bowden has had a prolific career as one of America's leading journalists and nonfiction writers. His new collection, The Three Battles of Wanat and Other True Stories, features the best of his long-form pieces on war, as well as notable...
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Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938

Philipp Blom - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover

When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it no longer recognized: the old order...
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The 60s: The Story of a Decade

Henry Finder - Random House
Format: Print book

The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century - including pieces by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike...
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Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

Clint Hill - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

A rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November.Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history intimately and vividly to life as he reflects on his seventeen years...
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The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo

Brendan Simms - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe - Napoleon's...
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American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

Claudia Roth Pierpont - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016.
Format: Print book

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have...
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Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

Stephen Budiansky - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous "cult of silence" has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese...
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The Other Paris

Luc Sante - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemianParis, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast,...
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Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel

Dan Ephron - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel's recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory...
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

Peter Cozzens - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a...
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French Revolutions For Beginners

Michael J. LaMonica - For Beginners
Format: Book

Allons enfants de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé!"Arise children of the Fatherland, the day of glory has arrived!" These opening lines to La Marseillaise, France's famously stirring and evocative national anthem, capture perfectly the passion, fear, and frenetic...
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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam

Jerry Brotton - Viking
Format: Print book

The gripping story of Queen Elizabeth's bold alliance with the Ottoman sultan by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve MapsPublished in the UK as This Orient IsleLong before the Barbary Pirates challenged Thomas Jefferson, English...
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The Family Tree Polish, Czech And Slovak Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Family Tree in Eastern Europe

Lisa A Alzo - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback

Trace your Eastern European ancestors from American shores back to the old country. This in-depth guide will walk you step-by-step through the exciting--and challenging--journey of finding your Polish, Czech, or Slovak roots. You'll learn how to identify immigrant ancestors, find your...
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Drone: Remote Control Warfare

Hugh Gusterson - The MIT Press
Format: Print book

Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that...
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Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940

Lloyd Clark - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book

In the spring of 1940, the Germans launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest military thinking, and new technology to achieve in just six weeks what their fathers had failed to achieve in all four years of the First World...
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

Ben Ehrenreich - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest...
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

STEPHEN KOTKIN - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power...
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century...
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Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence

George C Daughan - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

The untold story of the fight for the Hudson River Valley, control of which, both the Americans and the British firmly believed, would determine the outcome of the Revolutionary War.No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City, the Hudson River,...
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National Geographic The Old West

Stephen G. Hyslop - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

From Lewis and Clark's epic 1803 expedition to the showmanship of Buffalo Bill, the story of the American West is epic in scope, full of amazing tales of tragedy and triumph. Lavishly illustrated with vivid photographs and intricate maps, The Old West is the definitive history of a time...
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

Charlotte Gordon - Random House
Format: Hardcover

This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book - until now. In Romantic Outlaws,...
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis

Simon Goodman - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover

The passionate, gripping, true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps....
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The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury

John Dvorak - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

Ranging from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Mount Pelee in the Caribbean, from Bogoslof and Pavlov in Alaska, to Sakurajima in Japan, and, finally, to the massive volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii -- The Last Volcano reveals the incredible journey of a man on a mission to understand...
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At War on the Gothic Line: Fighting in Italy, 1944-45

Christian Jennings - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book

In the autumn of 1944, as Patton's army paraded through Paris, another Allied force was gathering in southern Italy. Spearheaded by over 100,000 American troops, this vast, international army was faced with a grim task -- break The Gothic Line, a series of interconnected German fortifications...
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Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It

John Ferling - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover

Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling's latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume...
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Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerIt is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over...
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

Nisid Hajari - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A few bloody months in South Asia during the summer of 1947 explain the world that troubles us today. Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British...
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert

Patricia Cornwell - Amazon Publishing
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expos of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter...
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The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

Nathan Ward - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland...
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The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There

Vincent T. DeVita - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

Cancer touches everybody's life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players:...
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The Annotated Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

No American president before or since has faced the problems that confronted Abraham Lincoln when he took office in 1861. Nor has any president expressed himself with such eloquence on issues of great moment. Lincoln's writings reveal the depth of his thought and feeling and the sincerity...
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

The epic history of the crossroads of the world - the meeting place of East and West and the birthplace of civilization It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise...
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The Lost Tudor Princess : The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

Alison Weir - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT * From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England...
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

Richard White - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded...
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Reagan: The Life

H.W. Brands - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth...
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Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History

John Julius Norwich - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The 21-Day Sugar Detox is a clear-cut, effective, whole-foods-based nutrition action plan that will reset your body and your habits! Tens of thousands of people have already used this groundbreaking guide to shatter the vicious sugar stronghold. Now it's your turn! Use the easy-to-follow...
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The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism

Mark Zwonitzer - Algonquin Of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book

In the tradition of the bestselling historical works of David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose, and Walter Isaacson, award-winning documentarian Mark Zwonitzer brings two extraordinary American figures--and friends--into the spotlight at a time when their country was taking...
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Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Marie Jalowicz Simon - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin. In 1941, Marie Jalowicz Simon, a nineteen-year-old Berliner, made an extraordinary decision. All around her, Jews were being rounded up for deportation, forced...
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening

Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold....
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A Colony in a Nation

Chris Hayes - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning news anchor Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation.America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration,...
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

Konrad H. Jarausch - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued...
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William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life

James Lee Mcdonough - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary military tactics reveal. James Lee McDonough offers fresh insight into a man tormented...
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

Barry Strauss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The exciting, dramatic story of one of history's most famous events - the death of Julius Caesar - now placed in full context of Rome's civil wars by eminent historian Barry Strauss.Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history....
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The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage

John Hughes-Wilson - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

A ground-breaking history of intelligence -- from its classical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the digital age -- that lifts the veil of secrecy from this clandestine world. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Secret State skillfully examines the potential pitfalls of the traditional...
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Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War

Matthew Carr - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

To know what war is, one should follow our tracks, General William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia. Shermans Ghosts is an investigation of the tracks left by the wars fought by the American military in the 150 years since Shermans...
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Sarah Vowell - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington's trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette's...
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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii

James L. Haley - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific....
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The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking and Scandinavian Gods and Heroes

Carolyne Larrington - Thames & Hudson
Format: Print book

An exhilarating introduction to the vivid, violent, boisterous world of the Norse myths and their cultural legacy -- from Tolkien to Game of ThronesThe Norse Myths presents the infamous Viking gods, from the mighty Asyr, led by inn, and the mysterious Vanir, to Thor and the mythological...
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Beyond: Our Future in Space

Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Beyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in space -- and then reminds us that we're already there.Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle...
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Blood Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1462-1485

Hugh Bicheno - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The concluding volume to this rousing two-part history of the Wars of the Roses, England's longest and bloodiest civil war, narrated by a master historian. England, 1462. The Yorkist Edward IV has been king for three years since his victory at Towton. The former Lancastrian King Henry VI languishes...
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Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor

Clinton Romesha - Dutton Books
Format: Print book

The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of "Black Hawk Down "by Mark Bowden and "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. "'It doesn't get better. ' To us, that...
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Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

Dan Jones - Viking
Format: Print book

"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." - Antonia FraserFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed...
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
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Walking San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive: Explore the Famous Sites, Neighborhoods, and Vistas in 17 Enchanting Walks

Kristine Poggioli - Craven Street Books
Format: Print book

Walking San Francisco's 49 Mile Scenic Drive shows how walking -- rather than driving -- San Francisco's famous scenic route gives you an active, fun way to enjoy and fall in love with the most beautiful city in the world. Get to know the City by the Bay as you never have before...
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The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria

Janine di Giovanni - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Book

Once in a decade comes an account of war that promises to be a classic. Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience...
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Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century

Alistair Horne - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait...
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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran

Laura Secor - Riverhead Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight - moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black...
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Mesa of Sorrows: A History of the Awatovi Massacre

James F. Brooks - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awatovi, and the events echo through American history.The Hopi community of Awatovi existed peacefully on Arizonas Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700 -- raiders from...
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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir

Jessica B Harris - Scribner
Format: Print book

In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era - the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies,...
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A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster

Joshua Partlow - Knopf
Format: Print book

The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the United States--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief....
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Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living

Paul Collins - New Harvest; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English...
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Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth

Lee Jackson - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with night soil, graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides...
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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise

Lucinda Hawksley - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate,...
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii

Susanna Moore - ‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic history of Americas tropical paradiseThe history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their...

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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARDThe phenomenal...
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

Sue Roe - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic...
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

Andrew Scott Cooper - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Print book

An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administrationIn this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth...
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

Rebecca Traister - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is "an...
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Joe Gould's Teeth

Jill Lepore - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Print book

From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most...
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Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

Andrew Morton - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne. "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance."...
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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

Paul Andrew Hutton - HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides - the Apaches and the white invaders - blamed him for it. A mixed-blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the American soldiers, he was never trusted by either...
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The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

Natalie Livingstone - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion. Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits...
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's Campaign for Peace

Alex Von Tunzelmann - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony under...
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You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City

Katharine A Harmon - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Map

Maps are magical. Every graphic, like every story, has a point of view, and New York is rife with mapmaking possibilities, thick with mythology, and glutted with history. You Are Here: NYC assembles some two hundred maps charting every inch and facet of the five boroughs, depicting New Yorks...
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War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing: Library of America #278

Lawrence Rosenwald - Library Of America
Format: Print book

An unprecedented gathering of the essential texts of the American antiwar tradition: from the Revolution to the war on terror, over 150 eloquent, provocative voices for peace. An unequalled military superpower responsible for the atomic bomb - involved, since its founding, in wars too numerous...
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,...
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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution

Sam Willis - W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Format: Print book

A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth?The American Revolution involved...
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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS

David J Barron - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

"A first-rate history filled with revealing incidents and informed analysis." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A timely account of a raging debate: The history of the ongoing struggle between the presidents and Congress over who has the power to declare and wage war.The...
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Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran

ShiÌ?riÌ?n Ê»IbaÌ?diÌ? - Random House
Format: Print book

The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government...
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Back Over There: One American Time-Traveler, 100 years Since the Great War, 500 Miles of Battle-Scarred French Countryside, and Too Many Trenches, Shells, Legends, and Ghosts to Count

Richard Rubin - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the war's last survivors face-to-face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real...
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art

Sebastian Smee - Random House
Format: Print book

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart...
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History

Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than...
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt

Joseph Lelyveld - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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Revolt at Taos: The New Mexican and Indian Insurrection of 1847

James A. Crutchfield - Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

On the morning of January 19, 1847, Charles Bent, the newly appointed governor of the American-claimed territory of New Mexico, was savagely killed at his home in Don Fernando de Taos, a small, remote town located north of Santa Fe. Those responsible for Bents murder were New Mexican settlers...
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Paper: Paging Through History

Mark Kurlansky - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more...
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes

Judith Flanders - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian CityThe idea that "home" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about...
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The Fight to Vote

Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

From the president of NYU's Brennan Center for Justice and the author of The Second Amendment, the history of the long struggle to win voting rights for all citizens.In The Second Amendment, Michael Waldman traced the ongoing argument on gun rights from the Bill of Rights...
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First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women

Susan Swain - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians for C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image. This book provides an up-close historical look at these fascinating women who survived...
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Operation Chowhound: The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII

Stephen Dando-Collins - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied...
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

A C Grayling - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy...
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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road

Rob Schmitz - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Shanghai, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on China. Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive...
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization

Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Print book

A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens...
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The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

Robert ONeill - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert ONeills awe-inspiring 400-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain...
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In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine

Tim Judah - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book

From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation...
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The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe

Michael Pye - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An epic adventure ranging from the terror of the Vikings to the golden age of cities: Michael Pye tells the amazing story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea. Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North...
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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

Christopher Dickey - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a nation.When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up the post of British consul in 1853, he was young and full of ambition, but even...
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Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science

Ronald L Numbers - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book

A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of gravity -- or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But the more intriguing question is why such stories endure as explanations of how science happens. Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away...
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy

Elaine Tyler May - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracyFor the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,...
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots

David Fisher - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leadersThe American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against...
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Secret Plan for America

Nancy Maclean - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right . . ." - The Atlantic "This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . If you're worried about what all this...
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