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The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family's Extraordinary Journey Through War and RevolutionThe most extraordinary family you've never heard of. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, the Moy siblings grew up in an America that questioned their citizenship and denied their equality. Sophisticated and self-consciously modern, they challenged limitations and stereotypes in the United States and sought...
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Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the HolocaustAuthor: Charlie ScheidtPublisher: Rutgers University PressPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 244Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00dISBN: 9781978846746Review Citation(s): Foreword 01/28/2026PW Booklife Reviews 02/16/2026About the AuthorCharlie Scheidt is the chairman emeritus of Roland Foods. Born in New York City, he is the only child of...
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Uncle Tom's CabinThe lives and losses of slaves in the American south are portrayed in this unflinching indictment of slavery.Author: Hariet Beecher StowePublisher: G&D MediaPublished: 07/16/2020Pages: 576Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.17dISBN: 9781722504199About the AuthorStowe, Hariet Beecher: - Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was...
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They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and OutlawsA deep dive into the grit and glamor of America's favorite criminal couple and the nation's love affair with guns. On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker met their end in a hail of semiautomatic...
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The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded AgeThe Partisans tells the story of the feud that dominated American politics in the decades that followed the Civil War. It is the first detailed account of the battle between Republicans James G. Blaine and Roscoe Conkling. Blaine and Conkling fought for dominance on...
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Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and NowThe Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his "Last Stand" survived to tell the tale, but this stunning photography...
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Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and WestThe fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen--who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin--risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky. After Hitler's defeat in World War II, Europe's ruins were divided between East and...
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HuguetteIn the lawlessness of post-World War II France, a resilient young woman fights to survive and make a living, no matter the cost--from the New York Times bestselling author of Three Hours in Paris and the Aimée Leduc series After Libération, spring 1945: Seventeen-year-old...
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Rogue Elephant: How the Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of ChaosA crucial explanation of the Republican party's increasing radicalization over the past fifty years Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing that its subordination to Donald Trump was not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of...
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The Memoirs of André Trocmé: The Pastor Who Rescued JewsA unique addition to the literature of ethical action during the Holocaust. . . . Trocmé's story, available in English here for the first time, teaches us how to act when we are sure of nothing. --Kirkus ReviewsAndré Trocmé is famous for his role...
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EffingersThree generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to time. Gabriele Tergit's Effingers is a novel, at...
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A Man Without a Country: 20th Anniversary EditionThe last of the canonical Kurt Vonnegut books, A Man Without a Country spent eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, selling over a quarter-million copies This 20th anniversary edition features a new introduction by Lewis Black. "For all those...
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We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre's restless intelligence may have found its most characteristic outlet in the open-ended form of the essay. For Sartre the essay...
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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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Weimar Under the Palms: Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of HollywoodThe story of the German exiles--and cultural titans--who settled in Pacific Palisades and influenced American culture. In the early twentieth century, Pacific Palisades was home to America's most modern film studio of the time as well as the proposed site of the world's largest...
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The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the WildernessMeriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to describe and explain a hyperserious young man of great complexity...
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The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid JusticeBefore the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony--before even Lizzie Borden--there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten...
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