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An Excellent Thing in a WomanThe owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited...
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The Survivor: How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter"Sobering, unforgettable reading. This is a standout of its kind." - Publishers Weekly"A riveting, deeply moving memoir. The writing is descriptive and dramatic, preserving Lewkowicz's deep emotions." - Jewish Book CouncilThis is the remarkable story of Josef Lewkowicz--Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor who became...
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The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy"A splendid narrative about political power and mercy." --David Grann, #1 bestselling author of The Wager The power of the presidential pardon has our national attention now more than ever before. This "thought-provoking and strenuously argued" (The Washington Post) book from New York Times...
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Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights MovementThe acclaimed author of the "stirring, definitive, and engrossing" (NPR) The Woman's Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement. In the summer of 1954, educator...
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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families"[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published 'last seen' advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage...a vital work of recovery." --Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife Drawing from...
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Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive FreedomFrom the award-winning author of Birth, a journey into the underground activist networks that have been working to protect women's autonomy over their bodies amidst legal, political, religious, and cultural oppression over the past sixty years. In this definitive, eye-opening history, award-winning author Rebecca...
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Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem RenaissanceA vibrant, deeply researched biography of A'Lelia Walker--daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance--written by her great-granddaughter. Dubbed the "joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s" by poet Langston Hughes, A'Lelia Walker, daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker...
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Daikon"A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance." --John Grisham "Absorbing...Unfolds like a detective novel...The story barrels ahead urgently...Duty, anger, sorrow, conscience and even hope mix together to form the novel's bracingly intimate ending." --The Wall Street Journal "What if not two but...
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The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant PandaA 2025 Wall Street Journal Summer Book to Get Lost In A 2025 New York Times Nonfiction Summer Preview Pick "A beautiful and powerful book." --Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author "Valuable, revelatory, and contagiously page-turning." --David Michaelis, New York Times bestselling author...
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy--And Why It FailedINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025 From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F....
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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century AmericaThis New York Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as best-selling science writer David Baron chronicles in The Martians, his truly bizarre tale of a nation swept up in Mars...
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women FreeThe riveting hidden history of Claire McCardell, the most influential fashion designer you've never heard of. Claire McCardell forever changed fashion--and most importantly, the lives of women. She shattered cultural norms around women's clothes, and today much of what we wear traces back to...
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The Book of Lost Hours: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library, a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing...
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The Passing of the Great Race: The Racial Basis of European History (With Original 1916 Illustrations in Full Color)Madison Grant is largely forgotten today, but in the early 20th century, he was a leading environmentalist. He spearheaded the effort to save America's buffalo and majestic redwood trees. He might be considered a lion of progressivism if not for the fact that If...
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1825 Fur Trade Rendezvous: Chasing General William H. Ashley's ReturnAn incredible journey of perseverance and history to recreate a 2000 mile trek by General William Henry Ashley and his men from the first Fur Trade Rendezvous of 1825 from southwest Wyoming to St. Louis, MO. These three men replicated this incredible feat of...
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Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and NowThe Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his "Last Stand" survived to tell the tale, but this stunning photography...
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Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and WestThe fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen--who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin--risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky. After Hitler's defeat in World War II, Europe's ruins were divided between East and...
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HuguetteIn the lawlessness of post-World War II France, a resilient young woman fights to survive and make a living, no matter the cost--from the New York Times bestselling author of Three Hours in Paris and the Aimée Leduc series After Libération, spring 1945: Seventeen-year-old...
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Rogue Elephant: How the Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of ChaosA crucial explanation of the Republican party's increasing radicalization over the past fifty years Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past fifty years, arguing that its subordination to Donald Trump was not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of...
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The Memoirs of André Trocmé: The Pastor Who Rescued JewsA unique addition to the literature of ethical action during the Holocaust. . . . Trocmé's story, available in English here for the first time, teaches us how to act when we are sure of nothing. --Kirkus ReviewsAndré Trocmé is famous for his role...
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