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Death in Ten Minutes: The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion

Fern Riddell - Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Hardcover

Fierce, fresh and feminist, Fern Riddell tells the story of Suffragette Kitty Marion in a way that fizzes and shocks. Exciting, twisty and very very timely. Lucy Worsley. In Death in Ten Minutes Fern Riddell uncovers the story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion, told through never before...
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

CLEMANTINE WAMARIYA - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not - could not - live in that tale." Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear,...
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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

Joseph P. Reidy - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated...
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Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

Anna Beer - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover

Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to Great Britain's island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh's famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents...
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Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

Mary Fulbrook - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

A single word--"Auschwitz"--is sometimes used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. Yet focusing on a single concentration camp, however horrific the scale of crimes committed there, leaves an incomplete story, truncates...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe

Dk Publishing. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Europe will lead you straight to the best attractions this diverse continent has to offer, from the majestic peaks of the Alps to the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean.This newly updated guidebook is packed with information on the culture, history, architecture,...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich

Robert Gellately - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet Union, and in December, the Germans were...
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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

Omer Bartov - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level - turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another - as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.For more than four hundred years, the Eastern...
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Richard III: England's Most Controversial King

CHRIS SKIDMORE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare...
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Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

Peter Ackroyd - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of EnglandDominion, the fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends with the death of Queen Victoria...
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100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Pantheon
Format: eBook

The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro 'Believe It or Not.'" Rogers's little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride,...
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The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

EDWARD L AYERS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Amid the devastation of war rise the first stirrings of freedom in this absorbing, ground-level narrative by an acclaimed historian.Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace with a rich soil and an enslaved workforce, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies...
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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Inara Verzemnieks - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

"Extraordinarily tender and finely wrought." -- Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born ... that at some point each year the dead will come home," Inara Verzemnieks writes in this exquisite story...
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The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women

SCOTT W STERN - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, one of the largest and longest-lasting mass quarantines in American history, told through the lens of one young woman's story.In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined...
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Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky - Walker & Company; Seventh Impression edition
Format: Hardcover

Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take salt for granted, a common, inexpensive substance that seasons food or clears ice from roads, a word used casually in expressions ("salt of the earth," take it with a grain of salt")...
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

MASIH ALINEJAD - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing...

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The Designer's Dictionary of Type

Sean Adams - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

The Designer's Dictionary of Type follows in the footsteps of The Designer's Dictionary of Color, providing a vivid and highly accessible look at an even more important graphic design ingredient: typography. From classic fonts like Garamond and Helvetica, to modern-day digital fonts...
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Joan of Arc

Mary Gordon - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

A provocative biography of this enduring figure searches for reason why this failed soldier and executed heretic has survived in consciousness of Western Civilization. Original.
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Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature

Shelley DeWees - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book

"Not Just Jane restores seven of England's most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer's story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote." - Dr. Amanda...
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The Netanyahu Years

BEN CASPIT - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country's history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu's life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office. Caspit...
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

Patricia O'Toole - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity...
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Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty

STEPHEN BRUMWELL - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor? General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining...
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Searching for Stonewall Jackson: A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America

Ben Cleary - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Historian Ben Cleary takes readers beyond the legend of Stonewall Jackson and directly onto the Civil War battlefields on which he fought, and where a country once again finds itself at a crossroads. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was the embodiment of Southern contradictions....
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Defying Hitler : a memoir

Sebastian Haffner - Farrar
Format: Book

The author's memoir, written in 1939, of the rise of Nazism in his native Germany from 1907 to 1933, which examines the influence of such groups as the Free Corps and the Hitler Youth on the German people, and includes predictions about his nation's fate.
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

MAX HASTINGS - Harper
Format: Hardcover

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United...
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

IAN BLACK - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

From a long-time Guardian correspondent and editor, an expansive, authoritative, and balanced account of over a century of violent confrontation, war, and occupation in Palestine and Israel, published on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and 50th anniversary of the Six-Day...
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Ghost Empire: A Journey to the Legendary Constantinople

Richard Fidler - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant reconstruction of the saga of power, glory, and invasion that is the one-thousand year story of Constantinople. A truly marvelous book." -- Simon WinchesterGhost Empire is a rare treasure -- an utterly captivating blend of the historical and the contemporary, narrated...
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Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee's Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis

Eric Lichtblau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book

The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines.

Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision...

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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found

Violet Moller - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the Dark Ages, three crucial manuscripts passed hand to hand through seven Mediterranean cities and survived to fuel the revival of the Renaissance--an exciting debut history. The foundations...
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The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty

MARY HOLLINGSWORTH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, revelatory, and shockingly revisionist narrative of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, by the acclaimed author of The Cardinal's Hat and The Borgias.Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained massive political...
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Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case that Propelled Him to the Presidency

Dan Abrams - Hanover Square
Format: Hardcover

The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep personal involvement - and which was played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign.At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went...
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We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam

Harold G. Moore
Format: Print book

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under...
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

SARAH SMARSH - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling...
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart...
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On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir--the Greatest Battle of the Korean War

Hampton Sides - Anchor
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. "Superb ... A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing...
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity

Nick Bunker - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin...
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The Carrot Purple and Other Curious Stories of the Food We Eat

JOEL S DENKER - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

How many otherwise well-educated readers know that the familiar orange carrot was once a novelty? It is a little more than 400 years old. Domesticated in Afghanistan in 900 AD, the purple carrot, in fact, was the dominant variety until Dutch gardeners bred the young upstart in the seventeenth...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Florida

DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Florida will lead you straight to the best attractions the state has to offer and provides the insider travel tips you need, whether you are making the most of the nightlife or discovering historic towns. Explores the state's history, architecture, wildlife,...
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The Unruly City: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

Mike Rapport - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined cities toward the end of the eighteenth century - Paris, London, and New York - all in the midst of political chaos and revolution. From the British occupation of New York during the Revolutionary War,...
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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

Peter Manseau - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A story of faith and fraud in post-Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer,"...
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Daniel Mendelsohn - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic - part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work - that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory,...
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Only in Edinburgh: A Guide to Unique Locations, Hidden Corners & Unusual Objects

Duncan J. D. Smith - Interlink Publishing
Format: Paperback

Only in Edinburgh is a comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 100 fascinating and unusual historical sites in the Scottish capital, including ancient closes and secret gardens, mysterious monuments and unexpected underworlds, storied graveyards and industrial relics. From historic...
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

David McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals...
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A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo

Peter Jan Honigsberg - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Firsthand testimonies from Guantnamo Bay, inspiring future generations to never repeat the human rights violations of the detention center.Law scholar and Witness to Guantnamo founder Peter Jan Honigsberg uncovers a haunting portrait of life at the military prison and its toll, not only...
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Mohonk and the Smileys: A National Historic Landmark and the Family That Created It

Larry Burgess - Black Dome Press
Format: Paperback

Mohonk and the Smileys: A National Historic Landmark and the Family That Created It chronicles the history and enduring legacy of a unique resort whose aim has always been to create and sustain a peaceful, contemplative environment for the betterment of human relations and for improved...
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

NELSON MANDELA - Liveright
Format: eBook

An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African...
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

Radley Balko - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

This is a tale of two tragedies. At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended,...
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An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden

Gary B Nash - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America. As Mary Schmidt Campbell shows us in this definitive,...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

ZORA NEALE HURSTON - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller"A profound impact on Hurston's literary legacy." - New York Times"One of the greatest writers of our time." - Toni Morrison"Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece." - Alice WalkerA major literary event:...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italian Riviera

Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

Look at the blue water of the Mediterranean, explore beautiful beaches, and eat fresh, delicious food on the Italian Riviera. See history, art, and more in this special region.Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italian Riviera. * Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss"...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide San Francisco and the Bay Area

DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring San Francisco and Northern California.Cycle over Golden Gate Bridge, catch a ferry out to the infamous prison on Alcatraz Island or head out to Napa Wine...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Vietnam

DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this compelling country.Explore the legacy of the Nguyen Dynasty at the Imperial City, take a boat trip to offshore islands, wander Ho Chi Minh City,...
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)...
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Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg: And Virginia's Historic Triangle

Sue Corbett - Globe Pequot
Format: Print book

Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. Written by a local (and true insider) , this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the cities...
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White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination

Jess Row - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in MineWhite Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties "white...
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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's

Joseph Jebelli - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved...
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The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829

ANTONIA FRASER - Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover

From beloved historian Antonia Fraser comes the dramatic story of how Catholics in the United Kingdom won back their rights after two centuries of official discrimination.In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread,...
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry

PATRICK J CHARLES - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover

This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces...
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The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future

Roger D.Launius - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

Comprehensive illustrated guide to the history of U.S. and international space exploration, both manned and unmannedThroughout history, humans have been fascinated by space. From the Babylonian astronomers of 700 BCE who charted the paths of planets, to the ancient Inca and Aztec builders...
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Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show

Richard Zoglin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The story of how Las Vegas saved Elvis and Elvis saved Las Vegas in the greatest musical comeback of all time.The conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is what destroyed Elvis Presley, launching him on a downward spiral of drugs, boredom, erratic stage behavior, and eventually his fatal...
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Everyday Life of Early America

David Freeman Hawke - Harper & Row
Format: Book

"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly
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Scotland The Best 100 Places: Extraordinary Places and Where Best to Walk, Eat and Sleep

Peter Irvine - HarperCollins UK
Format: Paperback

Peter Irvine, bestselling author of Scotland the Best, has selected 100 extraordinary places that epitomize what is truly great about Scotland. This personal and diverse compendium is illustrated with beautiful and evocative images by some of Scotland's best photographers. Peter Irvine...
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The Terracotta Warriors: Exploring the Most Intriguing Puzzle in Chinese History

EDWARD BURMAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China, exploring what we now know about it, what remains hidden, and the fascinating theories that surround its creation.Exciting investigations in northwest China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor,...
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Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921

Laura Engelstein - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr...
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts

Ruth Goodman - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman's uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap...
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100 Years, 100 Artworks: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art

Agnes Berecz - Prestel
Format: Hardcover

This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works--one per year--of the past 100 years.. Starting with Marcel Duchamps 1919 whimsical, brilliant L.H.O.O.Q., this compendium offers a year-by-year tour of iconic paintings,...
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It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

Gregg Easterbrook - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental...
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Hardcover

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire...
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In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

NATHANIEL PHILBRICK - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant AmbitionIn the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat...
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Christina Thompson - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more than...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Croatia

DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksDiscover Croatia with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - walk the marble streets of Dubrovnik, dip your...
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots

Nancy Goldstone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of four unforgettable sisters and their glamorous mother, Elizabeth Stuart, granddaughter of Mary, Queen of ScotsElizabeth Stuart's life was transformed when her father, James I, ascended to the illustrious throne of England. Her marriage to a German count far below her rank...
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A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Alexis Okeowo - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

"Absolutely essential reading, period."---Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo--a vivid...
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning...
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization

MARY BEARD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed...
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Behind Putin's Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia

Stephan Orth - Greystone Books
Format: Paperback

"Journalist Orth delivers a jaunty description of his travels...[that] armchair travelers will enjoy." - Publishers Weekly "Funny, insightful, and mind-bendingly entertaining. Stephan Orth is a fearless and fabulous tour guide to the real Russia and its people." - Lisa...
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Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army

Eugene L. Meyer - Tantor Media Inc
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Superior: The Return of Race Science

Angela Saini - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differencesSuperior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differences in the world of science.After the horrors of the Nazi regime in WWII, the mainstream...
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Nutrition in Crisis: Flawed Studies, Misleading Advice, and the Real Science of Human Metabolism

Richard David Feinman - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback

Almost every day it seems a new study is published that shows you are at risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or death due to something you've just eaten for lunch. Many of us no longer know what to eat or who to believe. In Nutrition in Crisis distinguished biochemist Richard...
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Shadow Strike: Inside Israels Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power

Yaakov Katz - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

A 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist"At the top of my reading list." -- Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School"Reads like an international thriller, but it is actually a compelling factual day-by-day (and sometimes hour-by-hour) account of an incident...
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa

Peter Godwin - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into...
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

Edward Brooke-Hitching - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding,...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Sardinia

INC DORLING KINDERSLEY - DK PUBLISHING
Format: Print book

Visit and explore Sardinia, the beautiful island in the Mediterranean, and stop by the Bronze Age Giants' grave tombs, see the different basilicas and churches, and relax on the Costa Smeralda beach.From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider...
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Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household

ADRIAN TINNISWOOD - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James...
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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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Presidents of War

MICHAEL BESCHLOSS - Crown
Format: Hardcover

From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation...
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From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitlers Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation

STEVE ROSS - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, an inspiring memoir about finding strength in the face of despair.On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors,...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain

DK. - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

With superb photography, illustrations, and maps, this comprehensive travel guide will help you plan your trip to Spain.This guide will show you the best of Barcelona--such as Gaud's Sagrada Famlia and Park Gell--to the spectacular castles of Castile, the golden beaches of Costa Blanca...
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Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

MARGALIT FOX - Random House
Format: Hardcover

In this heady true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder, and sound a victory for reason over reflexive prejudice.In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment....
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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Ariel Sabar - Algonquin Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In a remote corner of the world forgotten for nearly three thousand years lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic the language of Jesus Mostly illiterate they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with...
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

Gordon Campbell - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include?Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance have changed considerably...
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Who Killed My Father

Édouard Louis - New Directions
Format: Hardcover

This bracing new nonfiction book by the young superstar Edouard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father Highly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France's...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sweden

Dk Publishing. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Sweden will lead you straight to the best attractions this breathtaking country has to offer.Explore this beautiful Scandinavian country region-by-region, from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Visit Stockholm Palace, stroll through...
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Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World

JOHN MAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today.Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive...
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The Story of World War II: Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commager

Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster; Revised & enlarged edition
Format: Hardcover

"The Story of World War II" is a completely rewritten, expanded, and updated version-more than 75 percent new-of the classic narrative of the war that captures all the immediacy of the original work and contains hundreds of new firsthand accounts. In late 1945, Henry Steele Commager...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Budapest

Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book

Explore Budapest's busy city streets, walk along the Danube, and find the best places to shop. See history, art, and more in this special city.Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Budapest. * Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance....
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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II

- Twelve
Format: Hardcover

From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings...
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

Dana Goldstein - Doubleday
Format: Print book

In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,...
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A moonless, starless sky : ordinary women and men fighting extremism in Africa

Alexis Okeowo - Hachette Books


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The Library Book

Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."...
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The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

Kristen Richardson - ‎W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition
Format: Hardcover

A Smithsonian Best History Book of 2019 In this enthralling history of the debutante ritual, Kristen Richardson sheds new light on contemporary ideas...

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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior

Arthur Herman - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nations great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill. Douglas MacArthur was arguably...
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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of WWII

ANTONY BEEVOR - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account.On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane...
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World War II at Sea: A Global History

Craig L Symonds - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize) , The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly) , and Operation Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature) , Craig L. Symonds ranks among the country's finest...
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L Shirer - W.H. Smith ; Greenwich
Format: Print book

More than three hundred photographs accompany this abridged edition of the best-selling history of Hitler's Germany, detailing the rise of the Nazis, the events of World War II, the Holocaust, the Nuremberg Trials, and postwar Germany.
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These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller. In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Amsterdam

DK TRAVEL. - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksFind your corner of Amsterdam with this essential travel guide to this historic city, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you there before you've even packed your case - stroll along atmospheric canals,...
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Sonia Purnell - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Excellent ... This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down." -- The New York Times Book Review"A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people -- and a little...
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Vienna

DK Travel - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

Packed with fantastic photographs, illustrations, and maps, plus detailed descriptions and useful advice, this unbeatable guide will lead you to the best of Vienna.Short DescriptionWe will show you everything from the Stephansdom cathedral, to the MuseumsQuartier Wien, and the Schonbrunn...
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June 6, 1944: The Voices of D-Day

Gerald Astor - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

More than seventy personal accounts and twenty-four pages of photographs of the Normandy Invasion redefine World War II's most astounding operation in honor of its fiftieth anniversary. By the author of A Blood-Dimmed Tide.
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City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands

Dan Werb
Format: Hardcover

For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed.Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring...
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty

Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney...
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

Mike Wallace - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving...
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The American Civil War: A Military History

John Keegan - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America's most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged...
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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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Churchill: A Biography

Roy Jenkins - Farrar
Format: Book

A brilliant new life of Britain's greatest modern prime ministerWinston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been...
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Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

John C McManus - ‎Dutton Caliber; 1st Edition
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die"This eloquent and powerful...
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

JON MEACHAM - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * The...
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

Chris McGreal - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic--devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed,...
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Eat the Apple

Matt Young - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner) --a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt...
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The Stone Crusher: The True Story of a Father and Son's Fight for Survival in Auschwitz

Jeremy Dronfield - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was arrested by the Nazis. Along with his sixteen-year-old son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany, where a new concentration camp was being built. It was the beginning of a six-year odyssey almost without parallel. They...
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown

Penny Junor - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled...
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Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity

MICHAEL KINCH - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing -- cases of measles,...
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The Armada

Mattingly, Garrett - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book

Chronicling one of the most spectacular events of the sixteenth century, The Armada is the definitive story of the English fleet's infamous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The esteemed and critically acclaimed historian Garrett Mattingly explores all dimensions of the naval campaign,...
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Civilizations: Ten Thousand Years of Ancient History

Jane McIntosh - DK ADULT; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Civilization takes the reader from the earliest days of human settlement to the civilizations of the New World overthrown by the Spanish conquistadors. After a brief look at humanity's development as monadic hunters and gatherers, the book opens with the crucial step taken around 10,000...
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Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam

BRIAN VANDEMARK - Custom House
Format: Hardcover

"The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much...
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic

David L. Roll - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill called him World...
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

SIMON WINCHESTER - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing...
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The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

Heath Hardage Lee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story -- a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military...
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