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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Author: Natasha Trethewey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL IN...
For the Record
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Author: David Cameron (Georgia Institute of Technology) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 David Cameron was elected Conservative leader in 2005, promising to modernize the party following its three successive...
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
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Author: Lesley M M Blume Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one...
Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on...
They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
Author: Ruben Gallego Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company,...
The Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades
Author: Lewis Laney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights...
Riffs and Relations
Author: Adrienne L. Childs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Riffs and Relations: African-American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African-American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first...
Between Heaven and Hell
Author: David Talbot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over...
She Can Really Lay It Down
Author: Rachel Frankel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 In She Can Really Lay It Down, author Rachel Frankel tells the fascinating stories of fifty female musicians who left their...
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the...
The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945
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Author: Frank McDonough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 The Second Volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
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Author: Jeffrey Veidlinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE "The mass killings of Jews from 1918...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...
Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
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Author: James Suzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary...
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Author: Tracy Walder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink...
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
Author: Caroline Moorehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet--the powerful and...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Author: Lizabeth Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist...
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
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Author: Matti Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." --The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of...
Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler
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Author: David McKean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As...
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
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Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...
The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000
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Author: Fred Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Americans often think of their nation's history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Author: Timothy C. Winegard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 **The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* "Hugely impressive, a major work."-NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of...
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
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Author: David Cannadine (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account ....
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe
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Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World...
The Back-Up Plan
Author: Alice Judge-Talbot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 At 27 years old, I found myself with a broken down marriage and two children under two to raise on my...
War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
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Author: Nigel Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he...
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Author: Earl Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." -The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the...
The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry
Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...
The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account....
Vessel: A Memoir
Author: Chongda Cai Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general." -- Library Journal...
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
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Author: Stephen Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 "This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high...
El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzman
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Author: Alan Feuer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, El Chapo, from the New York Times reporter whose...
Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
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Author: Brian Vandemark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 "The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and...
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
Author: David Nasaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII In...
MacArthur's Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51
Author: Bill Yenne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his...
Great State: China and the World
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Author: Timothy Brook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer's Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook...
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
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Author: Jill Heinerth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths...
Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Author: Jeffrey H. Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair:...
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
Author: Ha Jin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting- a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also...
Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl
Author: Claire Dederer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A hilarious, confrontational and moving story of one woman's attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life, for lovers...
The Clearing: A memoir of art, family and mental health
Author: Samantha Clark Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This house has been a regular presence in my life for as long as I can remember. My heart has sunk...
My Place At The Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris
Author: Alexander Lobrano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he...
Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa
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Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...