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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan PoeA Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on...
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The Boys in the Boat (Movie Tie-In): Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin OlympicsThe inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney--exclusively in theaters December 25, 2023! The #1 New York Times bestselling true story about the American rowing triumph of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin--from the author of Facing the Mountain For readers of...
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The DiverMarta doesn't mean to kill her husband. In fact, she hardly believes that he's dead. After a dramatic accident leaves him drowned at the bottom of Lake Michigan, she embarks on a grief-fueled descent into the occult, and soon pulls in everyone around her,...
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When the Days Were Not Long EnoughP>Frank LeBar recalls the richness of his boyhood, growing up in Shawnee, Pennsylvania (Shawnee-on-Delaware), at the turn of the century. Like many other families who were early settlers along the Delaware River, the LeBars combined farming with fishing, trapping, and lumbering in a traditional...
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All the Broken Places"You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel." --John Irving From the New York Times bestselling author John Boyne, a stunning tour de force about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and...
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After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler's FranceOn the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. They were held for five days at the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, before being sent by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp....
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Speak You Also: A Survivor's ReckoningA concentration camp survivor confronts one of the most heated and vexed questions of the Holocaust: what price survival? In 1943, sixteen-year-old Paul Steinberg was arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz. A chemistry student, Steinberg was assigned to work in the camp's laboratory...
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NadiaNadia moves between the competing perspectives of two survivors of the 1990s Balkan Wars who have escaped to London, only to discover that the war has followed them there. Nadia is a young refugee who just wants to forget the past--until Iggy starts temping...
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Bengal Hound"A story full of gravity and urgency." -Ha Jin, author of A Song EverlastingA love story unravels in the tumultuous years leading up to the war for Bangladeshi Independence, revealing the irreconcilable fissures of land and life.A city is hellbent on revolution. Passionate and...
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An Affair of SpiesFrom the winner of the National Jewish Book Award--A spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb--now in paperback! Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a...
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Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American TownIn the early twentieth century, down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company built one of the largest mills in the world and a town to go with it. Aliquippa was a beacon and melting pot, pulling in thousands of...
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The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago NeighborhoodAn urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors...
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Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968Daniel Singer is the left's most brilliant arsonist. He sets ablaze whole forests of desiccated clich s about 'the end of history' and 'the triumph of the market' in order to light the way forward for the next generation of radical thinkers and activists.--Mike...
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The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les MisérablesA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2017 Les Mis rables is among the most popular and enduring novels ever written. Like Inspector Javert's dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean, its appeal has never waned,...
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Dark Harbor: The War for the New York WaterfrontThey'd never kill a reporter.... On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded the New York Sun's city editor of a similar docks killing from the year before, and...
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A Short History of the Unfinished Cold WarIn A Short History of the Unfinished Cold War, author Michael Loren Hastings provides an account of the largely misunderstood period of tension and conflict between world powers. Drawing on experience serving in the U.S. armed forces during the height of the Cold War,...
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent FaithNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America's isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. Now an the acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. "Fantastic.... Right up there with In...
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on UkraineNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more--from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award...
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American WestNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West--"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the...
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American MythA New York Times bestseller! "Lively and absorbing. . ." -- The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." --Wall Street Journal "Entertaining and well-researched . . . " --Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo,...
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