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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
MARIA RESSA - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Introduction by Amal ClooneyFrom the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Philippine journalism site Rappler comes this inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism and those who helping to spread it, filled with insights and advice for standing against... |
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Blood, Fire & Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I & Catherine de Medici
Estelle Paranque - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant and beautifully written deep dive into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as profoundly as they shaped the course of history. Sixteenth-century Europe was a hostile... |
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The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
Alexander Rose - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War - and the Union agent resolved to stop him.In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents - one a Confederate,... |
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Adam Hochschild - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration,... |
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Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
THOMAS E RICKS - ?Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world. In Waging a Good War, bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks... |
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The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe
Kevin R. C. Gutzman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A long, insightful look at three Founder presidents. ... Political histories are rarely page-turners, but Gutzman, clearly a scholar who has read everything on his subjects, writes lively prose and displays a refreshingly opinionated eye for a huge cast of characters and their often... |
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The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty
SARAH GRISTWOOD - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Sarah Gristwood's The Tudors in Love offers a brilliant history of the Tudor dynasty, showing how the rules of romantic courtly love irrevocably shaped the politics and international diplomacy of the period.Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth... |
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The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
Edward Humes - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A relentless detective and an amateur genealogist solve a haunting cold case - and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between justice and privacy. In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies... |
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