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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life"A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat." -- William Safire, New York TimesHighly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and...
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M: Son of the CenturyNow a major TV series from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Wright, starring Luca Marinelli -- streaming on MUBI."This relentless chronicle of authoritarianism emboldened and empowered offers a painful and valuable reminder that democracy is fragile, never to be taken for granted and always in need...
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Cobblestones: A New Orleans TragedyThe turbulent history of Post-Reconstruction New Orleans collides with the plight of Sicilian immigrants seeking refuge in America. Antonio, a young man fleeing Sicily after avenging his father's murder, embarks on a harrowing journey to New Orleans with the help of Jesuit priests expelled...
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Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First CenturyGeorge Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own--rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies--make his...
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All Quiet on the Western FrontAn immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling German novel of all time. Its impact is indisputable: it has been...
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The Little LiarAn Instant New York Times BestsellerBeloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with his most important novel to date, an unforgettable story of truth and lies set during the Holocaust.Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. When the Nazis invade his home in Salonika,...
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror FictionFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and '80s. Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic...
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the HolocaustINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock...
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Winter's End"A page-turner with honest characters who capture your heart and soul." -Faye KellermanLuring Nazi officers from smoky taverns to their deaths was not what Evi Strobel bargained for when she agreed to join the Dutch Resistance. But that is what she did until that...
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Cherokee Indian Lore And Smoky Mountains Stories""Cherokee Indian Lore And Smoky Mountains Stories"" is a book written by Margaret R. Siler that explores the rich cultural heritage of the Cherokee people and the natural beauty of the Smoky Mountains. The book is a collection of traditional Cherokee stories, legends, and...
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Even as We BreatheNineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and...
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Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The Cia, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion"Presents the results of journalist Gary Webb's investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles-- a story that cost him his job after he uncovered evidence that links the U.S. government and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras with drug...
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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive"In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, the survivors bore witness...
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Inside the MirrorWinner of the AWP Prize for the NovelWinner of the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book AwardWinner of the 2025 Georgia Author of the Year AwardLonglisted for the Center for Fiction's 2024 First Novel PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 New American Voices AwardHonorable Mention for...
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and FreedomThis beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots...
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCCIn Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. The testimonies...
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The Island of the WorldIsland of the World is the story of a child born in 1933 into the turbulent world of the Balkans and tracing his life into the third millennium. The central character is Josip Lasta, the son of an impoverished school teacher in a remote...
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So Far from God: The U. S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico,...
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Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp Through HistoryMark Twain's wit and wisdom is timeless. Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through History, combines Twain's own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at that time, and traces Twain's journey through the region just as he experienced it...
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The Writer's Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century FranceA pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner. In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged as a new kind of power. They stirred passions, shaped public opinion, and helped topple the...
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