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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon...
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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

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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Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever

Rachel Lance - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Code Girls, who want stories about the tech behind military successes and the maverick groups that generate historic innovations This is the previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers - men and women - who exposed...
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Turning Points in Ancient History, 12)

Eric Cline - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed - why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever. "A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. . . . You cannot...
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.. "Sides has mastered the art of you-are-there historical...
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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

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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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

David Gibbins - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's...
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Kathleen DuVal - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling."...
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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

Norman Ohler - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs.Berlin 1945. Following the fall...
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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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