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Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York CityFrom 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City's ever-increasing need for water, sustaining...
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Hiding in Holland: A Resistance MemoirThe authors of this striking memoir, Hiding in Holland, survivor Max Rothschild and his daughter Shulamit Reinharz, tell the story of a Jewish man who saved his life repeatedly during the Holocaust, eventually being hidden by Dutch Righteous Gentiles for three years. Hiding in...
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St. James Park"A sweeping tale that offers lessons from the not-so-distant past." -Kirkus Reviews"Doll masterfully reveals what lies just below the surface of every human soul." -Judge Paul Bernal, official historian of the City of San Jose"Cinematic in its scope, St. James Park is a movie...
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A Small Disturbance on the Far HorizonIn the stark Nevada landscape of the 1950s, A Small Disturbance on the Far Horizon explores the aftermath of a murder through the intertwined lives of three individuals. Tom Lang, a deputy sheriff, finds solace in a secret affair with Ettie Calvert, the wife...
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The Tall WomanNow in its 41st printing, this classic novel, set during and after the divided loyalties of the Civil War in the Southern mountains, describes Lydia McQueen's efforts to overcome grave challenges, live her best life, and bring a school to her community. This quest...
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Half Year, Half LightWhat if I don't have any big dreams? The year is 1969 and things are changing faster than eighteen-year-old Edna Louise Walters can wrap her head around. Eddy is restless, coiled tightly inside, and full of desires for a boy who is also toeing...
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The Night Stalker: The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez"An astonishing portrait of a killer not seen since In Cold Blood." --New York Daily News A bestselling masterpiece of true crime on par with Helter Skelter, this definitive account of one of America's most feared and notorious serial killers takes you deep into...
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Against EmpireRichly informed and written in an engaging style, Against Empire exposes the ruthless agenda and hidden costs of the U.S. empire today. Documenting the pretexts and lies used to justify violent intervention and maldevelopment abroad, Parenti shows how the conversion to a global economy...
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The Fallen Woman's DaughterWhen eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932, she is sure there's been some mistake. She can't imagine why she and her little sister, Patsy, were torn from their mother only to be subjected to the cruel whims of...
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish SufferingA scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust for personal and political gain--by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate. "The most controversial book of the year." --Guardian This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of...
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National ThemesWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMAAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika "Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork...Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Reagan-era AIDS epic won the...
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NightswimmingPaterson, New Jersey, 1979: Jamie Palmieri is an up-and-coming patrol officer, three years out of the academy and frustrated with his slow rise to detective. That all changes one frigid night in January, when a double homicide at a local bar leaves the owner...
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Living among the Dead: My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and StrengthThis is the story of one remarkable woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein's dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of...
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Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors"Feuerverger's search for a "place of inner solace" is profoundly inspiring ... often rendered in poetically stirring prose. With affecting clarity, the author meditates on the ways in which trauma is transmitted generationally...This is a powerful story, conveyed with deep humanity and insight." -Kirkus...
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The Diary of a Young GirlThe Diary of a Young Girl started two days before Anne Frank's thirteenth birthday. In 1942, the Nazis had occupied Holland, and her family left their home to go into hiding, as they were Jews. Anne Frank recorded daily events, her personal experiences and...
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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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Carpenter's GothicThis story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand crusade that conveniently...
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Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided HerIn 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud -- traveling from New York to San Francisco in only eighty-nine days. This...
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The Distant Land of My FatherA Los Angeles Times Bestseller, award-winning author Bo Caldwell's The Distant Land of My Father is "a powerful, fictional memoir of longing and guilt that will resonate with curious, sensitive daughters and with independent, perhaps secretive, fathers" (The News & Observer -Raleigh)Anna, the narrator...
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic CableToday, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship...
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