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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt (now an Apple TV series) and in the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between natives and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic...
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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World

Islam Issa - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

An original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day.. Islam Issa's father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary...
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

Patrick Joyce - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time.. "What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support." For over the past century and a half,...
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Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism

Jenn M. Jackson - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like - from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue.. This is my offering. My love letter to them, and to us.. Jenn M. Jackson, PhD,...
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American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

Katie Rogers - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first definitive exploration of the changing role of the twenty-first-century First Lady, painting a comprehensive portrait of Jill Biden - from a White House correspondent for The New York Times. "A fascinating and deeply researched exploration into the most public facing and least...
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news-breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the costliest...
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The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives

Adam Gamal - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The first and only book to ever be written by a member of America's most secret military unit -- an explosive and unlikely story of service and sacrifice.. Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the name of the unit itself is classified. Highly-trained...
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DK Eyewitness Sweden

DK Eyewitness - ‎DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback

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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

John O'Connor - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Bigfoot...
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

Francesca Peacock - W. F. Howes Ltd
Format: Hardcover

A biography of the remarkable - and in her time scandalous - seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, who pioneered the science fiction novel.. "My ambition is not only to be Empress, but Authoress of a whole world." - Margaret Cavendish Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born...
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