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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir  Publisher Comments The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on...
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Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man (08 Edition)
by James Weldon Johnson Synopsis James Weldon Johnson's landmark novel is an emotionally gripping and poignant look into race relations. The protagonist, a half-white half-black man of very light complexion, known only as an ex-colored man, makes a choice between his heritage and the...
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester 
Powells.com Staff Pick A truly fascinating book. Winchester captures the mood of China during the chaos of WWII and shows just how enormous an endeavor Joseph Needham undertook in writing his scientific history "for an audience already highly prejudiced against China and the...
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Night
by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel "Night" is Elie Wiesel' s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel...
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J Ellis
Publisher Comments In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of "American Sphinx" explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men--Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison--set the course for our nation. A...
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Hailed by the "New York Times" as "a fascinating, spicy, learned tale," this runaway national bestseller takes an extraordinary look into literary genius, madness, and the making of the"Oxford English Dictionary."...
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by Tom Reiss
Powells.com Staff Pick Islamic prince, Hollywood intimate, Mussolini's biographer, Jewish tycoon's son, international bestselling author (Goebbels was a big fan), chummy with the Nabakovs and Pasternaks: Lev Nussimbaum (aka Kurban Said, aka Essad Bey) was all these things...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearn Goodwin Publisher Comments Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their...
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The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene Publisher Comments Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws...
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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a...
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The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments "The Long Walk" is the harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners' desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India....
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank Mccourt
Publisher Comments "<P>"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood...
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford Publisher Comments The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader...
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The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Publisher Comments Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis...
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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman
Powells.com Staff Pick An ambitious and masterful work of history, Herman's sweeping narrative details the 40-year rivalry between two incredible figures. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's...
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Bloody Mary
by Carolly Erickson Publisher Comments Here is the tragic, stormy life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith, betrayal and treachery-set amidst the splendor, pageantry, squalor, and intrigue of sixteenth-century Europe...
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Maus, A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's...
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking...
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