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Polostan: Volume One of Bomb LightFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle,...
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The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American WestShortlisted for the Cundill History Prize A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West In 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government's treaty negotiations with the Lakota...
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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the...
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American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental JusticeFrom the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry--and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America....
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The ListenersAs the U.S. joins World War II, the manager of a luxury hotel set in the remote West Virginia mountains finds herself charged with the care of detained Nazi diplomats--and the FBI agent looking for a spy among them, by the #1 New York...
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The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert HunterDiscovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s--a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of "the scene" in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry...
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The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision to Use ItAn epic, riveting history based on new interviews and research that elucidates the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first...
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's MessiahNEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel's Messiah. "A delicious history...
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Buckeye: A Read with Jenna PickREAD WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY - "A small-town novel of epic proportions" (Tom Perrotta), this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century. "I love this...
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Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised LandLong-listed for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Most Anticipated Book "Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time." --Matthew Reisz, The GuardianThis dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a...
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The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever--and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation--from the bestselling author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning...
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The NightingaleA #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.France, 1939 - In the quiet village...
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Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest ScrewupsA New York Times Bestseller From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's biggest blunders, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a plethora of insane screwups--otherwise known as SNAFUs. Coined...
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Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of AmericaFrom the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War--and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln Told with a page-turning pace, New York Times bestselling...
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On FreedomNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "visionary" (The Guardian) exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival--by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of On Tyranny "[Snyder's] deep political and philosophical examination of how to...
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A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding SouthFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of "master-slave" dynamics A white man hosts a wedding party for his Black servant and...
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The Ballet Teacher of Auschwitz: An Emotionally Heart-Wrenching WW2 Historical Fiction NovelThe Nazis have taken everything from her. But they will never stop her heart from dancing.1941, Lodz. When nineteen-year-old Jewish ballerina Eleonore Kantor arrives at the Lodz ghetto, she quickly learns how easy it is to break a person's spirit. After the Nazis murder...
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1920-1924The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above all her catalytic gifts as a writer seem almost too much for one remarkable woman" (Christian Science Monitor). Edited by Anne Olivier...
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Up the ShenandoahA family divided by war. A valley scarred by blood. A fight for survival and honor.In 1864, the Shenandoah Valley becomes the crucible for the Eshenbaugh family. Andrew marches with Sheridan's Union cavalry, leaving his wife and children to defend the farm against ruthless...
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Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism by FireBetween 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four years to prepare and train for a resumption of the European continental...
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