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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the Cia, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age"A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and...
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That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFKThat Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from inception with predetermined outcomes, deceitfully engaged in insecure, phony pretense probes regarding...
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Trail of Tears: A Captivating Guide to the Forced Removals of Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nationsExplore the Cruel History of the Trail of TearsOne of the darkest and cruelest chapters in the history of the United States occurred when the nation's young government decided to remove the native peoples from their lands in the name of profit.Having helped settlers...
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Outmaneuvered: America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to AfghanistanFrom a celebrated military historian, a "searing...persuasive" (Kirkus Reviews) exploration of why the mighty United States military has repeatedly failed in irregular wars and military campaigns from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Since the early 1960s, the United States has fought in four major wars and...
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Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham LincolnMurder, mob rule, and the making of Abraham Lincoln--the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the national map--the Lyceum Address. Lynched: Five white gamblers suspected of aid-ing a...
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United StatesThe Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws--its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the outsized influence of the Supreme Court--Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley Law School and one...
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Murder of a RecluseWho killed the reclusive Agatha Dobbs? Newly married Elizabeth Wilkins is determined to prove Agatha's niece's innocence in this compelling 1920s mystery. October, 1926. Newly married Elizabeth Wilkins is ready for whatever life throws at her and her lawyer husband, Fred. So when Fred...
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The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy NetworkThis is the definitive account of the Western world's most powerful--but least known--intelligence alliance, which remains central to the defense of the free world in a dangerously uncertain time. The Five Eyes--a spy network between the intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia,...
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary...
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's BankIn the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it opened,...
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Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the NazisLong before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to Prague as part of a relief effort but turned immediately to helping Jews...
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The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern WorldWe often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population, industrial might, and potential military power; it touches all four...
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Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl HarborNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." -- Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories...
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Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial InequalityOur nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Dividing Lines, before we can think about rebuilding and repairing, we must consider the role race...
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This Strange Eventful HistoryOver seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state--separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical...
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No Precious TruthThe first in a brand-new WWII historical thriller series introduces Sergeant Cathy Marsden - a female police officer working for the Special Investigation Branch - who risks her life to protect the city of Leeds from an escaped German spy! Leeds, 1941. As the...
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the OccultThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered invisible forces of electricity and magnetism determined the world of science, unseen powers...
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Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOsINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERINSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs--now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)--reveals long-hidden secrets with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding...
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The Lack of Light: A Novel of Georgia"Catnip for Ferrante fans." --Boston Globe"Readers will find [The Lack of Light] irresistible." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A thrilling, heartbreaking, unforgettable story. Not a page too long."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A page-turning epic of loss and redemption in the vein of Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers...
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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost ContinentBest-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet Union, and the even...
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