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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman - W. W. Norton & Company
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When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after... |
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Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America
Steven J. Ross - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A 2018 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEThe chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood, the greatest propaganda machine... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century... |
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World
Hof 's-Gravenhage. - Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Format: MP3 CD
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust... |
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander... |
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Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
Elizabeth Brown Pryor - Viking
Format: Print book
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From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled with the challenges of leadership in an unruly democracy An awkward first meeting with U.S. Army officers, on the eve of the Civil War. A conversation on the White House portico with a young cavalry sergeant... |
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues -- from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio -- and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon... |
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Treasures of the New-York Historical Society
Louise Mirrer - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover
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Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is New York City's oldest museum, with a rich history of scholarship, research, and illuminating exhibitions. The museum collection of the New-York Historical Society comprises more than 1.6 million works of art, featuring an impressive... |
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
DIANA PRESTON - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open... |
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Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Anthony McCarten - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill's ascendancy to Prime Minister - soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill... |
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The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments
Lynne Kelly - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places -- and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals... |
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The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
Bill James - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.Between 1898 and 1912, families... |
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
Mark Kurlansky - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.. Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insiders view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city... |
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Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Paul Watson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding true story of the greatest cold case in Arctic history -- and how the rare mix of marine science and Inuit knowledge finally led to the recent discovery of the shipwrecks.Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernn Corts, rumors have circulated about... |
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome... |
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
MASIH ALINEJAD - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab. A photo on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: removing... |
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The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Penny Junor - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded" - esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled... |
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Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir
Sally Quinn - Harper One
Format: Print book
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The author, journalist, television reporter, and longtime Washington insider reflects on the spiritual quest that has brought deeper meaning to her life - and kept her grounded within the high-powered political world of Washington, D.C.'s elite - her renowned writing career, her celebrity... |
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
Laura Shapiro - Viking
Format: Print book
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A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking - what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives.Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives - social and cultural, personal... |
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Elaine Tyler May - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracyFor the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird - Random House
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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The World Remade: America in World War I
G J Meyer - Bantam
Format: Print book
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A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the country... |
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
Mike Wallace - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a whole new scale, moving... |
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Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal - including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life - to shed light on the political.Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure,... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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Hidden History of Long Island
Richard Panchyk - History Press
Format: Print book
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Long Island's history is filled with fascinating firsts, magnificent mansions and fascinating characters. From Glenn Curtiss, the first pilot to fly a plane on the island, to Earle Ovington, who carried the country's first airmail, the area has been known as the cradle of aviation.... |
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated... |
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Agent M: The Lives and Spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
Henry Hemming - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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Maxwell Knight was a paradox. A jazz obsessive and nature enthusiast (he is the author of the definitive work on how to look after a gorilla) , he is seen today as one of MI5's greatest spymasters, a man who did more than any other to break up British fascism during the Second World War - in spite... |
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"Ants Among Elephants is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir. It is quite possibly the most striking work of non-fiction set in India since Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and heralds the arrival of a formidable new writer."... |
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom
RUSSELL SHORTO - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today.With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The instant New York Times bestseller!Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West.... |
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The Big Break: The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told
Stephen Dando-Collins - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs) . The Germans then converted the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500... |
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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life
Joy Mangano - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From visionary entrepreneur and inventor, Joy Mangano, comes a powerful and inspirational blueprint for living with more success, confidence, and happiness in work and life.A true American original, Joy Mangano carved her own path to fame and fortune with courage, creativity, and sheer... |
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A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura
Eileen Markey - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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The 1980 rape and murder of four American women - three of them Catholic nuns - by the U.S.-trained military of El Salvador shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. But as Congress held hearings, the State Department, CIA, and FBI traded... |
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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oral fortune, the victim of a con man Or were her own family the real villains This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause clbre that has captivated... |
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Lincolns Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
Stephen W. Sears - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac. The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals... |
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
MARY BEARD - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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"A modern feminist classic." -- The GuardianFrom the internationally acclaimed classicist and New York Times best-selling author comes this timely manifesto on women and power. At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack... |
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place - Pittsburgh, PA - from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
DIANE ACKERMAN - W W NORTON
Format: Print book
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The movie The Zookeeper's Wife, based on the New York Times bestselling book, opens March 2017.In 1939 Poland, Antonina abiski (portrayed by two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan abiski (Johan Heldenbergh) , have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under... |
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The Killing School: Inside the World's Deadliest Sniper Program
BRANDON WEBB - ST MARTIN'S Press
Format: Print book
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As a SEAL sniper and combat veteran, Webb was tapped to revamp the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper School, incorporating the latest advances in technology and ballistics software to create an entirely new course that continues to test the skills and even the best warriors.... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Rick Wartzman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General... |
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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved... |
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Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City
Philip Mansel - I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Format: Hardcover
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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2016 Today, Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness; most of its population has fled. Google Earth shows no lights at night. But Aleppo was once a vibrant world city, a trade and cultural hub at the end of the Silk Road, famous... |
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell - Amazon Publishing
Format: Print book
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From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing expos of one of the world's most chilling cases of serial murder - and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter... |
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The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
T J English - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot;... |
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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2018 Edgar Award Finalist - Best Fact Crime By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.In the 1950s,... |
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The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, on the Hunt for the Godfather of ISIS
Nada Bakos - Little
Format: Print book
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The story of a young woman from Montana who joined the CIA and worked her way up through the ranks to the frontline of the fight against Islamic extremists. In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Daniel Beer - Vintage
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Cundill History Prize . The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of "the vast prison without a roof" that was Russias Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more... |
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Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949
David Cesarani - St Martins Pr
Format: Book
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David Cesarani's Final Solution is a magisterial work of history that chronicles the fate of Europe's Jews. Based on decades of scholarship, documentation newly available from the opening of Soviet archives, declassification of western intelligence service records, as well as diaries... |
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Overseas Press Club of Americas Cornelius Ryan Award * Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNew York Times Book Review Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive"A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual... |
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Jo Malone: My Story
Jo Malone - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Known around the world for her eponymous brand of fragrances and now her brand-new venture Jo Loves (soon to debut in the US) , Jo Malone tells the remarkable and inspiring story of her rise from humble beginnings to beloved business success.Jo Malone began her international fragrance... |
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A Offit - National Geographic
Format: Print book
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids... |
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
BILL O'REILLY - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The Revolutionary War as never told before.The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,... |
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
DEBORAH CADBURY - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother.By the 1890s, Queen Victoria had over thirty grandchildren, and to maintain and increase British royal power she was determined to maneuver them into... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War
DAVID FISHER - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican... |
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Peter Hayes - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth... |
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