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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
Tomiko Brown-Nagin - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue.... |
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A Brief History of Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
Yaroslav Hrytsak - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A "pioneering and fundamental" (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the "creative, freewheeling, darkly humorous, and deeply resilient society" that is contemporary... |
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
Ronald Drabkin - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland - a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars - who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up... |
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Perfect Pitch: 100 pieces of classical music to bring joy, tears, solace, empathy, inspiration (& everything in between)
Tim Bouverie - Short Books
Format: Hardcover
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100 pieces of classical music to bring joy, tears, solace, laughter, inspiration, empathy & everything else in between "Thank you to Tim Bouverie for this book which can be enjoyed as much by the hard-nosed professional as the beginner, anxious to learn something of this great music."... |
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Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
Mark Galeotti - Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine. Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia,... |
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