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The Fire AgentNew York Times Editors' Choice * A LitHub most anticipated book of 2026"Paced like a thriller, written like a dream."--The Boston Globe"A spy novel, a war story, a love story--brilliant historical fiction that is hardly fictional at all."--Graham Yost, executive producer of The Americans...
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Skyring WaterLouis and Beau L'Amour present a collaboration across time, an epic novel of Cold War suspense--a pair of unlikely heroes, a woman without a name, and the undefeated agents of the Third Reich find themselves locked in a deadly race to control the greatest...
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A Fortune of SandThe daughter of a powerful tycoon escapes to a glamorous artists' retreat--where dark secrets and dangerous temptations await--in this gripping Prohibition-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea. "Enthralling . . . While history is often molded...
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Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New YorkHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today. Yuppies may have been a classic 1980s stereotype, but they were also a...
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Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting BullA dramatic new look at Custer's Last Stand in time for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, by the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Heart of Everything That Is. On June 25-27, 1876, the Battle of the...
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The Flag Was Still There: A History of the American Experiment in Five AnniversariesA clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America's birth. "Brilliantly written and illuminating." --Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution America is the rare country that was founded...
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The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the WorldA lively and captivating journey through the world of the Transcendentalists, America's first group of public intellectuals, whose visionary ideas reinvented our culture and politics and remain an inspiration today. "An impeccable and often dazzling behind-the-scenes look at the Concord iconoclasts clustered around Emerson...
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The Ministry of PainHaving fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at...
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous IdeaIn this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and...
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Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. LongFrom the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin's bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections,...
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The Economic Consequences of the PeaceOne of the most important economic documents of the 20th century John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiating the peace treaty ending World War I. Frustrated and angered by the...
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Reporter: A Memoir"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." --John le Carré...
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North Toward HomeWith his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. In...
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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of HijackingThe true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets...
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The Book of LamentationsSet in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas, The Book of Lamentations tells of a fictionalized Mayan uprising that resembles many of the rebellions that have taken place since the indigenous people of the area were first conquered by European invaders five...
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Oct-64THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * THE BEST SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR "October 1964 should be a hit with old-time baseball fans, who'll relish the opportunity to relive that year's to-die-for World Series, when the dynastic but aging New York Yankees squared off...
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The Pacific War, 1931-1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War IIAuthor: Saburo IenagaPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 07/12/1979Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.34w x 0.83dISBN: 9780394734965About the AuthorSABURŌ IENAGA was born in Nagoya in 1913. He taught at the Tokyo University of Education from 1949 to 1977, and was later named professor...
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the Cia, and the MafiaDiscover the shocking alliance involving the CIA, the Mafia, and the Vatican that emerged after WWII to prevent a Communist takeover in Europe. In Operation Gladio, investigative journalist Paul L. Williams uncovers a disturbing web of "stay-behind" armies formed across Europe, consisting of thousands...
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information AgeIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about telegraphy, electricity, ships, or oceans, and science itself still lacked a...
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the ""riches of the ""east""While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international...
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