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Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

LEILA PHILIP - ?Twelve
Format: Hardcover

BEAVERLAND reveals the natural wonder and largely unsung story of the beaver-its long-term impact on American history and landscapes, and its importance in restoring balance and biodiversity amidst the ongoing climate crisis.  In the rich naturalist tradition of H is for Hawk and The...
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Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England's Medieval Queens, Volume Three (England's Medieval Queens, 3)

ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Packed with dramatic true stories from one of European history's most romantic and turbulent eras, this epic narrative chronicles the five vividly rendered queens of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England between 1299 and 1399.The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history...
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Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

Alex Mar - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Alex Mar's bold yet sensitive account of one of America's youngest death row inmates - and the people whose lives she forever changed - is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable." - Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road"An...
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Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War

Florian Illies - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

An ingeniously orchestrated popular history brings to life the most pivotal decade of the twentieth century. As the Roaring Twenties wind down, Jean-Paul Sartre waits in a Paris café for a first date with Simone de Beauvoir, who never shows. Marlene Dietrich slips away from a loveless...
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The Penguin Book of Pirates

Katherine Howe - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

Real-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates - both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond - compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself. A Penguin Classic. Spanning...
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Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology

Rachel Morgan - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

An incisive history of early American archaeology - from reckless looting to professional science - and the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today.. American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians...
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Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

James L. Nolan Jr. - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been...
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The unfit heiress : the tragic life and scandalous sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

Audrey Clare Farley - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue
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The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

Andre Leon Talley - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this deeply revealing memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments."The Chiffon Trenches honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion."...
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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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