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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyPULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive history of the infamous 1971 Attica Prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victim's decades-long quest for justice. - Thompson served as the Historical Consultant on the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature ATTICA "Gripping ... deals with racial...
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter"Important . . . [a] landmark presidential biography . . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new look."--The New York Times Book Review An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's...
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Our Share of Morning"Her eyes were fixed on my face. "Men," she said simply. "And women. Make mistakes. Blissful, dreadful mistakes. But more often than not, women pay the price."1933. A three-story tenement in a mill town west of Boston. In the third-floor apartment hangs a portrait...
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Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin OldsFighter Pilot is the memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force, Robin Olds. Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football...
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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Translated by Cecil Parrott. with Original Illustrations by Josef Lada.Discover "perhaps the funniest novel ever written" (The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued"The classic comic novel of the First World War." --The New Yorker - "A literary masterpiece." --New York Review of Books - "One of the greatest works of 20th century literature." --Boston...
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile CrisisNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment...
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Charlotte Salomon Paints Her LifeCharlotte Salomon Paints Her LifeInspired by the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, this novel shows an artist intent on pursuing her art against all odds. As a young German-Jewish art student at The Berlin Art Academy during Hitler's rise to power in 1938,...
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange TimeThe first volume in Hunter S. Thompson's bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, featuring a new introduction from award-winning author and editor John Jeremiah Sullivan. Originally published in 1979, the first volume of the bestselling "Gonzo Papers" is now back in...
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The Greater Journey: Americans in ParisThe #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America's master historian, David McCullough....
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Basic Writings of ExistentialismEdited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine...
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend. "Fascinating . . . Vivid . . . A first-rate piece of storytelling,...
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's JourneysReissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969...
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Led Zeppelin: The Biography"In this authoritative, unsparing history of the biggest rock group of the 1970s, Spitz delivers inside details and analysis with his well-known gift for storytelling." --PEOPLEFrom the author of the iconic, bestselling history of The Beatles, the definitive account of arguably the greatest rock...
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others have described some...
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Seeds of the PomegranateA gritty story of a woman learning to survive in 20th century Gangland New YorkIn early 20th-century Sicily, noblewoman Mimi Inglese, a talented painter, dreams of escaping the rigid expectations of her class by gaining admission to the Palermo Art Academy. But when she...
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates"This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read."--Patrick O'Brian "[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected."--Men's Journal This rollicking account of...
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There"One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded." --The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history) comes...
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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II--all Medal of Honor recipients--from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave "Pitch-perfect."--The...
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One Summer: America, 1927A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's Choice The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days,...
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left...
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