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A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th CenturyEven as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders. Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Paul Kengor...
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An Excellent Thing in a WomanThe owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited...
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The Survivor: How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter"Sobering, unforgettable reading. This is a standout of its kind." - Publishers Weekly"A riveting, deeply moving memoir. The writing is descriptive and dramatic, preserving Lewkowicz's deep emotions." - Jewish Book CouncilThis is the remarkable story of Josef Lewkowicz--Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor who became...
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The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy"A splendid narrative about political power and mercy." --David Grann, #1 bestselling author of The Wager The power of the presidential pardon has our national attention now more than ever before. This "thought-provoking and strenuously argued" (The Washington Post) book from New York Times...
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Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights MovementThe acclaimed author of the "stirring, definitive, and engrossing" (NPR) The Woman's Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement. In the summer of 1954, educator...
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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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Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive FreedomFrom the award-winning author of Birth, a journey into the underground activist networks that have been working to protect women's autonomy over their bodies amidst legal, political, religious, and cultural oppression over the past sixty years. In this definitive, eye-opening history, award-winning author Rebecca...
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Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem RenaissanceA vibrant, deeply researched biography of A'Lelia Walker--daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance--written by her great-granddaughter. Dubbed the "joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s" by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker...
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Daikon"A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance." --John Grisham "Absorbing...Unfolds like a detective novel...The story barrels ahead urgently...Duty, anger, sorrow, conscience and even hope mix together to form the novel's bracingly intimate ending." --The Wall Street Journal "What if not two but...
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The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant PandaA 2025 Wall Street Journal Summer Book to Get Lost In A 2025 New York Times Nonfiction Summer Preview Pick "A beautiful and powerful book." --Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author "Valuable, revelatory, and contagiously page-turning." --David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author...
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy--And Why It FailedINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F....
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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century AmericaThis New York Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as best-selling science writer David Baron chronicles in The Martians, his truly bizarre tale of a nation swept up in Mars...
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women FreeThe riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you've never heard of. Claire McCardell forever changed fashion--and most importantly, the lives of women. She shattered cultural norms around women's clothes, and today much of what we wear traces back to...
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The Book of Lost Hours: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing...
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The Passing of the Great Race: The Racial Basis of European History (With Original 1916 Illustrations in Full Color)Madison Grant is largely forgotten today, but in the early 20th century, he was a leading environmentalist. He spearheaded the effort to save America's buffalo and majestic redwood trees. He might be considered a lion of progressivism if not for the fact that If...
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1825 Fur Trade Rendezvous: Chasing General William H. Ashley's ReturnAn incredible journey of perseverance and history to recreate a 2000 mile trek by General William Henry Ashley and his men from the first Fur Trade Rendezvous of 1825 from southwest Wyoming to St. Louis, MO. These three men replicated this incredible feat of...
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An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Crusade to Save America's WonderlandsUncovering the partnership that saved America's natural treasures America's national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service struggling to keep up, author and former park ranger Steve Kemp looks toward one exceptionally effective historical example of conservation...
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Alice, or the Wild GirlIn 1856, Lieutenant Henry Aaron Bird makes a startling discovery: a speechless, shipwrecked young girl, living a feral existence on a remote Pacific island. When he exhibits her as a "wild girl" in the chaotic sprawl of early San Francisco, this golden-haired child without...
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The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumThe World Must Know depicts the evolution of the Holocaust comprehensively, as it is presented in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.D., honors the six-million Jews and millions of other victims of the Nazis during...
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Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie SchwarzenbachAnnemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she's been largely ignored. Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her domineering pro-Nazi...
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