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Lighthouses of Hampton Roads: A History (The History Press)

Benjamin H. Trask - The History Press
Format: Paperback

For nearly two centuries, the beacons of light stations guided vessels through the deceptively hazardous waters in and around Hampton Roads. Eleven light stations have dotted the southeastern coast of Virginia since the days of the early republic. Starting with Alexander Hamilton's...
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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called burned-over district of western...
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The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and Society

Bodie A. Ashton - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback

The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite neoliberalism and the Cold War, this book explores the cultural and political impact of the band and offers a fascinating window into the late 20th and early...
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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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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History

Philippa Gregory - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

"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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A History of Women in 101 Objects

Annabelle Hirsch - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Discover the hidden history of women - and the world - through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them.. "I adored this book!" - Olivia Colman. This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history...
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Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality

Josie Cox - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

From an experienced financial journalist, Women Money Power is the story of how women have fought for financial freedom, and the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality. For centuries, women were denied equal access to money and the freedom and power that came with...
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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

Denise Murrell - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem...
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But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging

Hala Gorani - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people...
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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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