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New Titles - History
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Patrick Joyce - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* 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... |
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Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Leila Philip - Twelve
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver - the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future. From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative... |
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Lou and JonBenét: A Legendary Lawman's Quest to Solve a Child Beauty Queen's Murder
John Wesley Anderson - Tantor Audio
Format: Paperback
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On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found, but it was hours before her father, John, found her body in the basement. She had been strangled with a garrote and her skull was fractured. The media... |
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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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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History
Tracy Borman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, ElizabethMuch of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas... |
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Sixty Years of Solitude: The Life of Empress Charlotte of Mexico
Gustavo Vazquez-Lozano - Libros de México
Format: Paperback
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Princess Charlotte's life went from fairy tale to hell. This is the story of that hell.. Act I. In 1862, Napoleon III established a monarchy in Mexico, south of the Rio Grande, with Maximilian of Austria and Charlotte of Belgium as its young and idealistic monarchs. Under pressure from... |
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Bring It On: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously)
Kase Wickman - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Featuring dozens of interviews with the cast and crew, fans of the franchise, film scholars, former and current cheerleaders, fellow filmmakers, and more.
Gabrielle Union, Kirsten Dunst, and Eliza Dushku have all risen to fame since their performances in the original cheer classic, but boldface... |
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
Marion Gibson - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through... |
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What Would Reagan Do?: Life Lessons from the Last Great President
Chris Christie - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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With the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president?. A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?, Christie takes a fresh... |
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