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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War IThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck focuses on...
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Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920sThe adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as...
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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing CrewOn December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo--and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the...
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo NeighborhoodLogavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tolerance. On this street of 240 families, Muslims and Christians, Serbs and...
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram"Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid--and despite--the horror and chaos of war."--Francine Prose, O, The Oprah Magazine Brutally honest and...
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of AfricaIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history-from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in Monrovia, to the...
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Spies in the FamilyNow in paperback, a riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer--the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold WarIn the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon was living in...
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Denial: Holocaust History on TrialNow a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. "A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import. " -- Jewish WeekDeborah Lipstadt, author of the groundbreaking Denying the Holocaust, chronicles her six-year legal battle...
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Vengeance is Mine"One of the most electrifying and surprising endings in world literature." Erich Maria RemarqueOne morning in November 1940, two men meet on New Jersey dock. One, haggard and haunted, says he's waiting for 75 refugees from Hitler's Germany. Every day he comes, and every...
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Trieste"Splendid and absorbing . . . [Drndic] is writing to witness, and to make the pain stick . . . These dense and satisfying pages capture the crowdedness of memory." -- New York Times Book Review Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, in northeastern...
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Run, Darling: A Gabor Sisters NovelThree Sisters. One War. A Harrowing Escape. Before the Sexual Revolution, reality TV, and social media, there lived the Gabors, a family of beguiling glamour icons with a global following.For decades, the gorgeous trio of Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda, with their Auntie Mame...
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Not Our Kind"[An] enthralling portrait of a woman daring to defy convention in the face of rigid social confines...filled with thought-provoking turns that explore timely subjects in a gripping light...its themes linger long after the final page is read."--USA TodayWith echoes of Rules of Civility and...
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Sharpe's Trafalgar: The Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October, 1805From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback--bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell brings life to one of the most spectacular naval battles in history with SHARPE'S TRAFALGAR."The greatest writer of historical adventures today." --Washington PostCritically acclaimed, perennial New York Times...
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A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War IIThe people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity -- one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the history of World War II. Drawing on many personal accounts, Emmy...
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Rector of JustinRegarded as one of Louis Auchincloss's most accomplished novels, THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN centers on Frank Prescott, the founder of an exclusive school for boys. Eighty years of his life unfold through the observations of six narrators, each with a unique perspective on the...
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Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global EconomyThe former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard--breaking the link between gold and the dollar--transforming...
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The Town and the City"It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go."-- Kerouac on The Town and the City. Kerouac's debut novel is a great coming of age story which can be read as the essential prelude to his later classics. Kerouac...
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Undefeated"[Freeman is] an excellent storyteller."--Sports IllustratedThe 1972 Miami Dolphins, under the expert leadership of legendary coach Don Shula, remain to this day the only team in the National Football League ever to enjoy a perfect season with no defeats and no ties. Now, 40...
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To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett"So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles."--Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling authorFrom Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett, detailing Garrett's riveting chase of...
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Great Society: A New HistoryThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges."Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high...
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