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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
by Lynne Olson
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From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World War II — a bitter, sometimes violent clash of personalities and ideas that divided the nation and ultimately determined... (read more)

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Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
by William J. Bernstein
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William J. Bernstein's A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, an Economist and Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians like Jared Diamond and Bill Bryson, capable of distilling major trends... (read more)

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Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas
Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas
by Kay Bailey Hutchison
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From New York Times bestselling author and groundbreaking politician Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison comes a history of the extraordinary women who shaped the state of Texas. The only woman ever to represent Texas in the United States Senate, Kay Bailey... (read more)

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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
by Nathaniel Philbrick
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and#147;For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispensable book.and#8221; and#151;Russell Baker Nantucket is a tiny island with a huge history. In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times-bestselling author Nathaniel... (read more)

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The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues: A History of Greenwich Village
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues: A History of Greenwich Village
by John Strausbaugh
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A lively anecdotal history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood, from the 1600s to the present The most famous neighborhood in the world, Greenwich Village has been home to outcasts of diverse... (read more)

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Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
by Simms Brendan
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If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls central Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. In this authoritative account of the past half millennium of European... (read more)

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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
by William Dalrymple
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From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris... (read more)

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Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (What Everyone Needs to Know)
Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (What Everyone Needs to Know)
by Julia E. Sweig
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Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive... (read more)

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The Girl with No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
The Girl with No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
by Marina Chapman
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In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and then abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later,... (read more)

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Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome
Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome
by Claire L Lyons
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Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place between Greece, North Africa, and the Italian peninsula. In the late eighth century B.C., émigrés from the Greek mainland founded colonies... (read more)

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Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture (Culture America)
Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture (Culture America)
by Larry Gragg
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When Elvis crooned "Bright light city . . . gonna set my soul on fire," he voiced and embraced the siren call of a glittering urban utopia that continues to mesmerize millions. Call it Sin City or Lost Wages, Las Vegas definitely deserves its rapturous... (read more)

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Govan Mbeki (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)
Govan Mbeki (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)
by Colin Bundy
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Govan Mbeki (1910–2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the... (read more)

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Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast
Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast
by Kim R Stafford
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Wind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregons magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderful vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife... (read more)

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Against the Tide: Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida
Against the Tide: Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida
by Sandra Lazo De La Vega
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Across the United States, the issue of immigration has generated rancorous debate and divided communities. Many states and municipalities have passed restrictive legislation that erodes any sense of community. Against the Tide tells the story of Jupiter,... (read more)

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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (Verso World History)
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (Verso World History)
by Perry Anderson
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson... (read more)

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California in the 1930s: The Wpa Guide to the Golden State
California in the 1930s: The Wpa Guide to the Golden State
by Federal Writers Project Of The Works Pro
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Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, "anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether... (read more)

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Vegetables: A Biography
Vegetables: A Biography
by Evelyne Bloch-dano
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From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' markets,  today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens—and especially to vegetables. Whether it... (read more)

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Our Pictures, Our Words: A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement
Our Pictures, Our Words: A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement
by Laxmi Murthy
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Vibrant, dynamic, spirited, and forceful. The contemporary women’s movement in India, which began in the late 1970s, fought valiantly against dark times marked by violence and misogyny. But it also celebrated—liberation, solidarity among... (read more)

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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by Wendy Moore
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Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage... (read more)

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Soap Lake (Images of America)
Soap Lake (Images of America)
by Kathleen Kiefer
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Soap Lake is located in eastern Washington at the southern end of the Lower Grand Coulee. Carved by the erosive forces of cataclysmic floods, the lake paints a serene portrait across a landscape framed with rugged basalt cliffs and talus slopes. After... (read more)

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