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New Titles - History
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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
Philippa Gregory - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating... |
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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
Alice Randall - Atria/Black Privilege Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music..... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution - a #1 international... |
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Detroit's Lost Amusement Parks (Images of America)
Joseph McCauley - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Arthur Gaulker, a successful real estate scion, gathered investors to create Electric Amusement Park in 1906. Gaulker's park was located near the Belle Isle Bridge just a few miles from downtown Detroit. Morris Wolff opened his Wolff's Park in 1906 directly across the street from... |
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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
Jim Sciutto - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama... |
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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire
Douglas Valentine - Trine Day
Format: Paperback
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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a non-fiction book about what writer William Burroughs called, "the backlash and bad karma of empire." Set against the author's month-long trip to London, Vietnam and Thailand in early 1991, it tells how the American empire was created... |
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Steam Trains: A Modern View of Yesterday's Railroads
James P. Bell - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback
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For train enthusiasts, model railroaders, and history buffs, hop aboard this tour of North American railroads, both great and obscure.. Few images speak as clearly of a time and a place as a dramatic black-and-white photograph of an American steam locomotive powering through that storied... |
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To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
Noah Feldman - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar... |
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