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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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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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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
MAX ALLAN COLLINS - William Morrow
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At last, the definitive account of the battle for Chicago: Legendary novelist Max Allan Collins and acclaimed rising historian A. Brad Schwartz combine talents in this groundbreaking dual biography of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the upright Prohibition... |
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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On the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders - inspiring... |
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A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book
John Barton
Format: Hardcover
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A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priestIn our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy... |
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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
Dan Albert - W. W. Norton & Company
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Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive.Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These technological marvels promise cleaner air, smoother traffic, and tens of thousands of lives saved. But even if robots turn into responsible drivers, are we ready... |
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Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
GEMMA HARTLEY - HarperOne
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A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load" - the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems large and small - is adversely affecting women's lives and feeding gender inequality, and shows the way forward... |
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The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World
Jordan Shapiro - Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it.In The New Childhood, Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research... |
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Tom Cotton - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon... |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
ELIZABETH WEIN - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II - from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name VerityIn the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat.... |
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Hitler: A Biography
Peter Longerich - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimesAcclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography. While... |
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Capitalism in America: A History
Alan Greenspan - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.From even the start of his fabled... |
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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
ALAN RUSBRIDGER - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of our timeTechnology has radically altered the news landscape. Once-powerful newspapers have lost their clout or been purchased by owners with particular agendas.... |
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
Helen Zia - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution - a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. "A true page-turner. . . [Helen] Zia has proven once again that history... |
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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz - Anchor
Format: Hardcover
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2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER. From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicagos most turbulent neighborhoods.. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been... |
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To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
Molly Millwood PhD - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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A clinical psychologist's exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherhood When Molly Millwood became a mother, she was fully prepared for what she would gain: an adorable baby boy; hard-won mothering skills; and a messy, chaotic, beautiful life. But what she did not expect... |
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Brazil: A Biography
Lilia M Schwarcz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil... |
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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Chris Arnade - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover
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Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael... |
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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
Kara Dixon Vuic - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the intrepid young women who volunteered to help and entertain American servicemen fighting overseas, from World War I through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort... |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Stephen Budiansky - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court's most influential justice.Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived... |
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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Preet Bharara - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara... |
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues."Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about... |
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
William L. Silber - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during... |
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Dan Jones - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side,... |
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of two American giants - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist... |
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Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968
J. Samuel Walker - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the Washington Post's Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation's capital reeling in the wake... |
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Jon Meacham - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw... |
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Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff
Anthony McCann - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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An "epic exploration" of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation-"an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment" (Maggie Nelson) .In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors... |
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Revolutionary: George Washington at War
Robert L. O'Connell - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, came to define the American character How did George Washington become an American... |
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The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
Virginia Sole-Smith - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture.Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important... |
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War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 19431945
Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed.Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day... |
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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
KEITH O'BRIEN - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s - and won Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multiday events, and cities... |
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe
James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th... |
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Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
Matt Stroud - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A wide-ranging investigation of how supposedly transformative technologies adopted by law enforcement have actually made policing worse -- lazier, more reckless, and more discriminatoryAmerican law enforcement is a system in crisis. After explosive protests responding to police brutality... |
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Brenda Wineapple - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president." - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln... |
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Fraternity: An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men
Alexandra Robbins - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Pledged is back with an unprecedented fly-on-the-wall look inside fraternity houses from current brothers' perspectives - and a fresh, riveting must-read about what it's like to be a college guy today. Two real-life stories. One stunning... |
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The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
Patrick Nunn - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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In The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the science in folk history. He looks at ancient tales and traditions that may be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the Biblical Flood.We all know those stories that have been... |
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The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
John Buchanan - University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover
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In The Road to Guilford Courthouse, one of the most acclaimed military histories of the Revolutionary War ever written, John Buchanan explored the first half of the critical Southern Campaign and introduced readers to its brilliant architect, Major General Nathanael Greene. In this long-awaited... |
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How to Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations
Marc Freedman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The secret to happiness, longevity, and living on is through mentoring the next generationIn How to Live Forever, Encore.org founder and CEO Marc Freedman tells the story of his thirty-year quest to answer some of contemporary life's most urgent questions: With so many living so much... |
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
Chris McGreal - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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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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Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
Oliver Bullough - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them."... |
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Barnum: An American Life
Robert Wilson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichs for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street JournalP. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever... |
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The New Debtors' Prison: Why All Americans Are in Danger of Losing Their Freedom
Christopher B. Maselli - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Debtors' prisons might sound like something out of a Dickens novel, as antiquated as leeching, but what most Americans do not realize is that they are alive and well in a new and startling form. Today more than 20 percent of the prison population is incarcerated for financial reasons... |
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Barry Strauss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss tells the story of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine.Barry Strauss's Ten Caesars is the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention,... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through... |
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war.Vicksburg, Mississippi,... |
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Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left
Philip K. Howard - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society.In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government to re-empower Americans in their daily choices. Nothing... |
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A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
Joshua S. Goldstein - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries... |
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Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome
Stephen Dando-Collins - Brilliance Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Romes most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details... |
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px... |
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Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
William Hazelgrove - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This book is the first deconstruction of the Wright brothers myth. They were not -- as we have all come to believe--two halves of the same apple. Each had a distinctive role in creating the first "flying machine."How could two misanthropic brothers who never left home, were high-school... |
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Killing with Prejudice: Institutionalized Racism in American Capital Punishment
R.J. Maratea - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases In 1978 Warren McCleskey, a black man, killed a white police officer in Georgia. He was convicted by a jury of 11 whites and 1 African American, and was sentenced to death. Although... |
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The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction
Jay Howard Geller - Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The evocative and riveting stories of four brothers -- Gershom the Zionist, Werner the Communist, Reinhold the nationalist, and Erich the liberal -- weave together in The Scholems, a biography of an eminent middle-class Jewish Berlin family and a social history of the Jews in Germany in the decades... |
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Unfreedom of the Press
Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Paperback
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless... |
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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
Douglas Waller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives... |
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
DAVID FRYE - Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardcover
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In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history's greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga - one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey... |
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No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
Samuel I. Schwartz - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous... |
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The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare
Iain Ballantyne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of the submarine's evolution from its ancient beginnings to its culmination as the deadliest vessel ever invented.A fascinating and comprehensive account of how an initially ineffectual underwater boat -- originally derided and loathed in equal measure -- evolved into... |
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I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis
Jeremy K. Everett - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback
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Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than thirteen million children live in food insecure homes. As Christians we are called to address the suffering of the hungry and poor: "For I was hungry, and you gave me food... |
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Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
Carson Vaughan - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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A moving true story of American struggle.Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one - where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity... |
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The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
Antonio J. Mendez - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold WarAntonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late... |
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It
Marty Makary M.D. - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system.One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America.... |
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to the Present
DAVID TREUER - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Grand Food Bargain: and the Mindless Drive for More
Kevin D. Walker - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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When it comes to food, Americans seem to have a pretty great deal. Our grocery stores are overflowing with countless varieties of convenient products. But like most bargains that are too good to be true, the modern food system relies on an illusion. It depends on endless abundance, but the planet... |
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The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath
Garrett Peck - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath -- the Red Scare, race riots, women's suffrage, and Prohibition. The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American... |
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Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Matti Friedman - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it's all true. The four spies at the center of this story were part of a ragtag... |
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians
David M. Rubenstein - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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In revealing conversations with our greatest historians, co-founder of the Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story.These lively dialogues present some of the biggest names in American... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once... |
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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
Samantha Seiple - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the far-reaching implications her service had on her writing and her activism Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa... |
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
Daniel Kay Hertz - Belt Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the middle class back from the Chicago suburbs to the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the city's North Side. In place of the old, poorly maintained apartments and dense streetscapes of taverns and butchers, "rehabbers"... |
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Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
Anna Beer - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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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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Generation Citizen: The Power of Youth in Our Politics
Scott Warren - Counterpoint
Format: Paperback
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Championing the activism of young people around the world, Generation Citizen is an empowering reminder of the positive power of politics, and an inspiring, actionable guide for anyone ready to fight for democracy. America is at a crossroads. We are alienated from civic engagement,... |
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
Ken Follett - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. The feeling was bewildering, as if the earth... |
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A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
Zach Vertin - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable chronicle of America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch, from euphoric birth to heart-wrenching collapse. The birth of South Sudan was celebrated the world round -- a triumph for global justice and the end of one of the world's most devastating wars. The Republic's... |
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
Mollie Hemingway - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access - The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino - reveal what really happened... |
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Where Did You Get This Number?: A Pollster's Guide to Making Sense of the World
Anthony Salvanto - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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CBS News' Elections and Surveys Director Anthony Salvanto takes you behind the scenes of polling to show you how to think about who we are and where we're headed as a nation.As Elections and Surveys Director for CBS News, it's Anthony Salvanto's job to understand you - what you think and how you vote.... |
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