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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil RightsAn authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill...
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Simone in PiecesReaders first meet Simone Lerrante, a Belgian war orphan, as a child refugee in Sussex, England, her memory damaged by trauma. This novel offers a kaleidoscopic vision of her fractured life and piecemeal understanding of self across multiple points of view. Following her from...
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A Secret in TuscanyThe Tuscan Child meets Beneath a Scarlet Sky in this bittersweet tale of wartime heroism, love, and redemption, spanning two generations and encompassing a real-life mystery, from the author of The Long Flight Home and Churchill's Secret Messenger. Italy, 1943 With war blazing through...
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The Phantom PatrolAn investigation into a gang of Nazi-affiliated art thieves leads Billy Boyle directly into the line of fire at the catastrophic Battle of the Bulge.Winter 1944: Months after the Liberation of France, ex-Boston cop Billy Boyle finds himself in Paris. It is a city...
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German EmpireIn this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918--which inspired events that forever changed the European continent--here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany...
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The Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake Conflict, 1864-1868The Snake War is one of the least known of the many clashes of culture that occurred in the American West during the 19th century. People have long relished tales of the underdog and celebrated lost causes. We appreciate and praise those who have...
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical DiscriminationBetween its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable...
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Consider the ConsequencesYou decide what the characters do--and who they end up with--in this interactive 1930s romantic time capsule that paved the way for Choose Your Own Adventure! 43 HAPPILY (N)EVER AFTERS: Play as a party game, or read on your own, as you navigate the...
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Churchill's Secret Messenger: A Ww2 Novel of Spies & the French ResistanceA riveting story of World War II and the courage of one young woman as she is drafted into Churchill's overseas spy network, aiding the French Resistance behind enemy lines and working to liberate Nazi-occupied Paris... London, 1941: In a cramped bunker in Winston...
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Capitalists Must Starve: A NovelFrom the writer and translator duo of A Magical Girl Retires, a powerful historical novel about labour activism in Japanese-occupied Korea.Set against the backdrop of Japanese-occupied Korea, Capitalists Must Starve follows a sharp-tongued, big-hearted heroine who dares to love, rebel, and carve out space...
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce WarAfter the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing...
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CriminalsCriminals follows the lives of a sister and brother, Ruth and Hank Tanazaki, as they struggle to free themselves from the weight of their parents' generation in a small Japanese American community in Los Angeles in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This poignant...
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Minnesota, 1918: When Flu, Fire, and War Ravaged the StateIn 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put communities to the test, forcing them to persevere through untold hardship. First, as the nation immersed itself in the global conflict later known as World War I, some...
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When Minnehaha Flowed with Whiskey: A Spirited History of the FallsThe lost history of Minnehaha Falls--featuring dance halls, secret saloons, wild behavior, lawsuits, and plenty of whiskey. Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis has been a much-loved place for a very long time. Native people visited the Falls for millennia before 1855, when Longfellow's Song of...
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Glorious PeopleA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (MARIE CLAIRE): A sweeping historical fiction novel about the fall of the Soviet Union, told through the eyes of Ukrainian mothers and daughters over 4 decades "An astute, deeply empathic portrayal of the dislocation of first-generation immigrants and...
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Alias O. Henry"[A]n exuberant biographical novel . . . Riffing cleverly on O. Henry's most cherished stories, Yagoda presents a vivid, witty, and delectable tale of crime and creativity."--Booklist"Alias O. Henry is a delight--a buoyant fictional conjecture about the writer's hidden life, full of surprise cameos,...
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our TimesIf you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness" (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make...
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Why?: Explaining the HolocaustWhy? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift and sweeping? Why didn't more Jews fight back more often?...
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Everyone a StrangerA young war widow is unwittingly drawn into a sinister web of intrigue and murder in this taut, unexpected, masterfully plotted historical thriller set in WWII-era Seattle, where the enemy may be closer than anyone thinks. A crafty, addictive read for fans of The...
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True Tales: The Forgotten History of Michigan's Upper PeninsulaWhat Were Pioneer Days Really Like in the U.P.?The combination of mining, maritime and lumbering history created a culture in the U.P. that is unique to the Midwest. Discover true stories of the rough and dangerous times of the Upper Peninsula frontier that are...
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