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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco UnderworldThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered . . . the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any...
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The Life She ForgotHe promised to help reclaim her memories.Until she remembered another man.Cornwall, 1913For three years, Merryn has lived without a past. When she faces being locked away for her own "protection," she takes a daring chance on a hasty marriage to AJ Winthrop-a kind, whimsical...
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Mark TwainThe #1 New York Times Bestseller - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025- A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book - Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews "Comprehensive,...
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The Body of Language: EsperruquancluzelubelouzerireluAn erudite exploration of transgressive language from the Renaissance by one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book explores how early modern authors broke linguistic boundaries, creating new words and languages that challenged traditional grammar and lexicon, providing historical insight into today's debates on...
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Keeping Hope Alive: Sermons and Speeches of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.For over fifty years, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., a Baptist minister, activist, and organizer, has worked for civil rights, peace, and the promise of true democracy. From his years in the Civil Rights movement, his work as founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition,...
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Henny's Boat: The Maritime Rescue Operation that Saved Denmark's Jews and Sparked a Nationwide Revolt Against the NazisDenmark's World War II rescue of its Jewish population was a shining example of courage, morality and national resolve.In September 1943, three years after they invaded Denmark, the Nazis set a plan in motion to capture the country's nearly 8,350 Jews in a single...
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A Map to Paradise1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle. With her name on the Hollywood blacklist and her life on hold, starlet Melanie Cole has little choice in company. There is her next-door neighbor, Elwood, but the screenwriter's agoraphobia allows for just short...
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Shipyard GalsIn 1944, three stateside women had a job to do, but it wasn't easy....On the run from corrupt and violent police back in El Salvador, Elena, an outspoken journalist, is desperate to find work and send money home to her family. But the 1944...
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised EditionIn this compelling and informative exploration of American foreign policy, Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley delve into the evolution of the United States' global engagement. Since it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The...
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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families"[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published 'last seen' advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage...a vital work of recovery." --Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife Drawing from...
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Emerald Fennell Presents: Wuthering HeightsEmerald Fennell presents Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's gothic masterpiece of unbridled passion, obsession, and revenge. Set against the desolate beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the all-consuming love between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has captivated readers for centuries. When forces of class and...
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The Amen Corner: A PlayFrom one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century--a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons."[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses...
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Small IslandAn international bestseller. Andrea Levy's Small Island won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Hortense Joseph arrives in London from...
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every PresidencyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose choices have defined the course of our country--including a chapter on the chaos of the first Trump administration "Entertaining and engaging."--The Wall Street Journal"Compelling and insightful."--HuffPost"Carefully researched...
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a TimeNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity BoundThe legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history for three generations--from the 1880s all the way through World War II--and still influence our...
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and BetrayalNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year - Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story of intrigue in the final...
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The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for AmericaBestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent. "Gripping...Brands' writing style and...
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Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the RevolutionBy the award-winning author of Dog Company: a historic account of a Revolutionary War unit's "tactical acumen and human drama . . . combat writing at its best" (The Wall Street Journal).In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally...
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The Zimmermann Telegram: America Enters the War, 1917-1918; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series"A tremendous tale of hushed and unhushed uproars in the linked fields of war and diplomacy" (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August In January 1917, the war in Europe was, at best, a tragic standoff. Britain...
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American FamilyFrom the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author's Chinese-American family, combining years of research with "fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life" (Amy Tan, bestselling author...
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