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Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

Earl Swift - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921 - a crime which exposed for the nation the existence...
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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

Frank Tallis - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series. Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and burn with such fierce...
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. "A feat of both scholarship and storytell
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Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

Martin Sixsmith - Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover

An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced...
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

David Van Reybrouck - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling writer, a masterful account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonization of the modern world. On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced...
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