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The WomenA 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fiction Narrator! "Kristin Hannah's potent storytelling skills are brilliantly served by narrator Julia Whelan, whose limber, low-pitched voice moves nimbly from person to person, capturing personality and mood, her empathy palpable." --The Washington Post From the celebrated...
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Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century AmericaA surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging. Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century America, however, hair took on decisive new significance as the...
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end...
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the...
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A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable HousingAuthor: Betty Boyd CaroliPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 02/02/2026Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.10w x 1.20dISBN: 9780197793800About the AuthorBetty Boyd Caroli is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds an MA in Mass Communication from Annenberg School of University of Pennsylvania, as well...
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The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone ConversationsA richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era. Henry Kissinger is unquestionably one of the...
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Robert H. Jackson: A Life in JudgmentAuthor: G. Edward WhitePublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 408Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.40w x 1.50dISBN: 9780197778432About the AuthorG. Edward White is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of twenty books...
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The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They MadeAn engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao. The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of...
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Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban AmericaHow debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today's inequalities In the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous with the "American Dream" of upward mobility and economic security. After World War II, white families rushed into newly built suburbs, where...
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The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside StoryBigfoot! Huge, hairy, foul smelling, this legendary apelike animal continues to captivate the public's imagination. This fascination hinges on a single piece of motion-picture film shot in northern California in 1967. For thirty-five years, Bigfoot believers have been convinced that this sixty-second piece of...
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The War Correspondents: The Incredible Stories of the Brave Men and Women Who Covered the Fight Against Hitler's GermanyThe War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII's European Theater Ernie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Mauldin, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Andy Rooney, Martha Gellhorn,...
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The Rolling Stones: The BiographyNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times From the award-winning, bestselling author of classic histories of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, a groundbreaking reckoning with the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band All great music is a threat. What...
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Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler BacklashA history of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, from Revolutionary War allies to modern resurgenceHow did the Oneida Nation of northeastern Wisconsin--stripped of nearly all its reservation lands by the early twentieth century--rise to become a powerful political and economic force in Native America...
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The Last Woman of WarsawA debut novel by the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Light of Days, following two very different Jewish women in Warsaw in the late 1930s as they unexpectedly come together in their search for love, meaning, and a sense of...
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The Moonlight Runner: A Gripping Historical Novel of Survival and Bravery and Romance Set Against the Irish War of Independence"An epic tale of feminine heroism, patriotism, and a touch of romance...This page-turner is a must for historical fiction fans."-Booklist"The legendary Karen Robards brings her formidable talents to bear in The Moonlight Runner, an epic tale of love and female heroism." -Pam Jenoff, New...
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The Fortune Tellers of Rue DaruA fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery... Spirited Zina and her secretive grandmother, Baba Valya, own a...
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Returning: A Search for Home Across Three CenturiesNicholas Lemann, a veteran New Yorker correspondent, grew up in New Orleans, the son of German Jews in a world of gilded privilege. Yet in contrast to his parents' generation, which always sought to downplay their religious background, Lemann was intrigued by his roots,...
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Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early YearsRare views of the beginnings of the historic space program, selected and presented by two leading space flight authoritiesAfter the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took an ambitious new direction closer to home: NASA's Space Shuttle program promised frequent...
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Nuclear Weapons: An International HistoryA groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally changed the world order. Its power was harnessed, nuclear bombs invented, and...
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Charlotte Brontë's Life Through ClothesMeet the real, thinking, feeling woman that was Charlotte Brontë, as told in this biography by the surviving witnesses to her life - the clothes that she once wore. These garments were present as she penned Jane Eyre, as she walked the cobbled streets...
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