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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
by Timothy Egan
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In this remarkable tale of the nation's largest forest fire ... (read more)

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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)
by George R Stewart
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George R. Stewart's classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation's peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its... (read more)

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A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
by Robert Bringhurst
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The Haida world is a misty archipelago a hundred stormy miles off the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska. For more than a thousand years before the Europeans came, a great culture flourished on these islands. In 1900 and 1901 the linguist and... (read more)

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more)

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Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America
by Russ Baker
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The long-hidden story of a family we thought we knewand of a power-making apparatus that we have barely begun to comprehend. After eight disastrous years, George W. Bush leaves office as one of the most unpopular presidents in American history. Russ... (read more)

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World History Africa
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Strength in What Remains
Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more)

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Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Greg Mortenson and Mike Bryan
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If you're feeling crushed by the grim news reports of our ongoing, never-ending overseas warfare, replenish your spirit with Stones into Schools. This remarkable book from the author of Three Cups of Tea will pull you out of your seat and send you into... (read more)

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True Compass: A Memoir
True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy
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Too long a late-night-comedy punch line, the late Senator Kennedy led an undeniably fascinating life. Filled with riveting stories and enlivened by Kennedy's refreshing candor, True Compass is a fitting tribute to a life that was almost too big for one... (read more)

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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (Grove Great Lives)
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 (Grove Great Lives)
by Barbara W Tuchman
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Barbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in 1972. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache to China in 1935-39 and commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff... (read more)

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Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
  1. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
    by Timothy Egan
  2. Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)
    by George R Stewart
  3. A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
    by Robert Bringhurst
  4. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
    by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
  5. Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America
    by Russ Baker

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Guests | November 6, 2009

Ben Thompson: IMG Badass Authors: George Orwell

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"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever." —George Orwell, 1984 While fighting Nazis in the... Continue »
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    1984 (Signet Classics)

    George Orwell
Original Essays | November 5, 2009

John Buntin: IMG Notes from the (Bibliographic) Underground

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For more than 60 years, Los Angeles's origins, its underbelly, and (yes) its blondes have fueled the imagination of writers and directors from... Continue »
Original Essays | October 27, 2009

Mike Cox: IMG The Texas Rangers Versus the Texas Rangers

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My two-volume history,The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900 and Time of the Rangers: Texas Rangers: From 1900 to the Present, is... Continue »
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    The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900

    Mike Cox
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