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Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
LEILA PHILIP - ?Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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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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Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy
Alex Mar - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir
Andre Leon Talley - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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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