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Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
Menachem Kaiser
Format: Hardcover
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Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous... |
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Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
Gareth Stedman Jones - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communism's patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts... |
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Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
Laura Dern - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of deeply personal conversations from award-winning actress and activist Laura Dern and the woman she admires most, her mother - legendary actress Diane Ladd - that take readers on an intimate tour of their lives, sharing their most honest conversations on love, life, success,... |
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Faith Still Moves Mountains: Miraculous Stories of the Healing Power of Prayer
Harris Faulkner - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover
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We need reminders of God's power now more than ever.We often think about prayer as a wish list, with God as Santa Claus. The reality is that the power of prayer reminds us not only how small we are, but also how big God is. Prayer is hope put into action. And prayer works. From FOX News... |
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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
John Guy - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history: Henry VIII's long courtship, short union, and brutal execution of Anne Boleyn.Hunting the Falcon is the story of how Henry VIII's obsessive desire for Anne Boleyn... |
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The Big Heist: The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder
ANTHONY M DESTEFANO - Citadel
Format: Hardcover
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"Terrific DeStefano. He finally gives us a fitting end to the murderous and fabled story of the 1978 Lufthansa heist." - Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino"A comprehensive account of the legendary 1978 heist . . . impressive." - Publisher's... |
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The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan - Knopf
Format: Flexibound
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A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club * With a foreword by David Allen Sibley. "Unexpected and spectacular" - Ann Patchett, best-selling author... |
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Leslie F*cking Jones
Leslie Jones - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder and you're better than everybody else, they can't f*cking deny you."Leslie Jones is a warrior. Raised by a tough dad and a loving but often sick mom, her father's... |
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Michael J. Fox - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike... |
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