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Backcountry War: The Rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas SumterFINALIST FOR THE 2025 AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST PRIZE FOR HISTORY Over the past several decades, the history of the American Revolution in the South has undergone a transformation to better incorporate regional events into the greater narrative of the war. Among these events was...
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1978: Baseball and America in the Disco EraAmericans struggled to find their footing in the late 1970s. The Vietnam War ended with more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers' deaths; the public's trust in politicians plummeted amid the Watergate scandal. As deadly blizzards ripped through the Midwest and Northeast in early 1978...
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In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan ZweigA refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. In the Future of Yesterday delves into Stefan Zweig's considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Jewish tradition. His privileged social background saw him embrace European culture and cosmopolitanism. A...
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Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed the WorldThe gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history forever. From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao's stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel's triumphant arrival in Havana, in...
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Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business LeadersBetween 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs--individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, J. P. Morgan, and Buffalo Bill Cody--helped lay the groundwork for what we now call...
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Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain MeadowsThe massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is an...
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Malcolm Before XA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 A Spectator Best Book of the Year Finalist for the 2025 ASALH Book Prize Drawing upon interviews, correspondence, and nearly 2000 pages of never-before-used prison records, Malcolm Before X is the definitive examination of the prison...
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Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde--Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical PopA groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing...
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Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of WarThe untold story of film as a chemical cousin to poison gas and nuclear weapons, shaped by centuries of violent extraction. The history of film calls to mind unforgettable photographs, famous directors, and the glitz and hustle of the media business. But there is...
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Lipstick in Auschwitz: The Unbelievable True Story of a World War II Holocaust SurvivorShe made it through the first selection... but can she survive to see the end of the war?Marysia is only seventeen when war breaks out in her hometown of Krakow, Poland. With nothing more than a toothbrush in hand, Marysia splits from the rest...
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MidasFormer preacher Jeremiah Pevensie has lost his faith after the death of his young son. When he discovers a dead body in the woods near his house and a map depicting a location that doesn't exist, Jeremiah and his wife begin a journey to...
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Company Men: The Invention of Shareholder Value and the Splintering of the American EconomyHow an esoteric economic theory--and its most devout believers--changed the world forever. In the modern economy, stock price is king. The value of a corporation is measured in how it enriches its shareholders, even when doing so subtracts from long-term growth or social good....
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s"A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle."--The New York Times Book Review A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and others, weaving a fascinating narrative of...
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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve ThemselvesA history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. "A tour de force ... Read it now." --Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography In America today, police enjoy unmatched power. On the streets,...
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American CanonNobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious. In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison...
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Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793Warleggan presents the gripping fourth novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, the major TV series from Masterpiece on PBS.When Ross Poldark plunges into a highly speculative mining venture, he risks not only his family's financial security but also his already-turbulent marriage. When his...
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Stranger from the SeaThe Stranger from the Sea is the eighth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, and continues the story after the fifth TV series, which has become an international phenomenon, starring Aidan Turner. Cornwall 1810. The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross...
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The Wright Brothers#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North...
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Table for Two: FictionsA New York Times Bestseller"This may be Towles' best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef's main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart." --Los Angeles Times "The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into...
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and MurderINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal.On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were...
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