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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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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
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The dazzling companion volume to the acclaimed Ken Burns documentary, The National Parks: America's Best Idea chronicles the fascinating history of the world-renowned United States National Park system. Four hundred pages of richly composed text by... (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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World History Caribbean
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
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Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (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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Worst Hard Time: Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (06 Edition)
Worst Hard Time: Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (06 Edition)
by Timothy Egan
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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de... (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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The Night Stalkers: Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment
The Night Stalkers: Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment
by Michael J Durant
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From the New York Times bestselling authors of In the Company of Heroes. In the world of covert warfare, Special Operations pilots are notoriously close- lipped about what they do. They don't talk about their missions to anyone outside their small... (read more)

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Saturday, December 5, 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. The National Parks: America's Best Idea
    by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
  3. Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)
    by George R Stewart
  4. A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
    by Robert Bringhurst
  5. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
    by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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 »
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    L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

    John Buntin
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
Original Essays | September 25, 2009

Robert Edsel: IMG The Monuments Men and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

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The Monuments Men were the greatest heroes of World War II you've never heard of. Before I tell you who they were, let me ask you a few seemingly obvious questions, but ones you — like me — have, probably never wondered. You know of the... Continue »
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    The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

    Robert M. Edsel
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