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New 700 - 900s/Travel Non-Fiction Books 700 Art, Design, Sports, and Recreation 800 Literature and Poetry 900 Geography, Travel, and History |
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Crochet How: Learn to Crochet with Simple Stitches, Patterns, and Tips
by Meghan Fernandes
The perfect learn-to-crochet book for beginners, Crochet How
keeps readers motivated and inspired as they stitch their way
through the projects and master a new craft. Start with an easy
throw blanket, scarf, or tote, then complete your new crocheted collection by stitching up a cute hat, a sweet cowl, pullover, crop
top, and granny square creations galore.
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The Sailing Bible: The Complete Guide for All Sailors from Novice to Experienced Skipper
by Jeremy Evans
This new, revised edition of The Sailing Bible is the complete,
hands-on manual packed with detailed, step-by-step diagrams,
lively action photos, and helpful advice on getting the most out
of your sailing at every level. Whether one is a dinghy or yacht
sailor, just learning the basics or wanting tips on sailing with
the best, this book will deliver all the answers needed.
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Masters of the Game: A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 Legendary Players
by Sam Smith
The legendary sportswriter and the Hall of Fame, eleven-time
NBA champion coach separate the music from the noise in the
stories of the greatest who ever played and their impact on the
game Sam Smith and Phil Jackson grew to know and respect
each other in the late 1980s, when Smith was a Chicago Tribune sportswriter and Jackson was an assistant coach for the Chicago
Bulls.
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A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction
by Elizabeth McCracken
From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing. Writing
can feel like an endless series of decisions. How does one face the
blank page? Move a character around a room? Deal with time? Undertake revision? The good and bad news is that in fiction
writing, there are no definitive answers to such questions:
writers must come up with their own.
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025
by John Edgar Wideman
The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman's most influential
essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism
that paint a vivid portrait of America's changing landscape and
chronicle the emergence and evolution of a major presence in
fiction. A towering figure in American literature.
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Racebook: A Personal History of the
Internet
by Tochi Onyebuchi
Beginning with the current moment when everything, including
personal identity, is a matter of dispute, and tracing his online
persona in reverse chronological order back to Web 1.0's
promises of greater equality and a bright digital future, Onyebuchi
deftly examines the evolution of internet culture and the ways
that culture has shifted in the ensuing decades. From the ever-
changing nature of personal writing and free expression, to
gaming, manga, fandom, and virtual reality.
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Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
by Mark Synnott
New York Times bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with
Alex Honnold. He's scaled Mt. Everest. But in 2022, he realized
there was a dream he'd never realized-to sail the Northwest
Passage in his own boat, a feat only four hundred or so sailors
had ever accomplished-and in doing so, try to solve the mystery
of what happened to legendary nineteenth-century explorer Sir
John Franklin and his ships, HMS Erebus and Terror.
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The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
by Jason Burke
From the deserts of Jordan and the Munich Olympics to the
Iranian Embassy Siege in London and the Beirut bombings of the
early 1980s, Burke invites us into the lives and minds of the
perpetrators of these attacks, as well as the government agents
and top officials who sought to foil them. Charting, too, such
shattering events as the Iranian Revolution and the Lebanese
civil war, he shows how, by the early 1980s, a campaign for
radical change led by secular, leftist revolutionaries had given
way to a far more lethal movement of conservative religious
fanaticism that would dominate the decades to come.
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The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story
of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Summer, 1856. Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her
husband Joshua were young and ambitious. Both from New
England seafaring families, they had already completed their first
clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain.
If they could win [a] race to San Francisco that year, their dream
of building a farm and a family might be within reach. It would
mean freedom. And the price of that freedom was one last
dangerous transit into the most treacherous waters in the world.
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The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit,
and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty
by Tracy Borman
From the acclaimed royal historian, the dramatic and untold
story of the lie about the controversial succession that ended
the Tudor era and changed the course of British history.
In the long and dramatic annals of British history, no transition
from one monarch to another has been as fraught and consequential
as that which ended the Tudor dynasty and launched the Stuart
in March 1603. At her death, Elizabeth I had reigned for 44 turbulent years, facing many threats, whether external from Spain or internal
from her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone
by Mark Lee Gardner
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday: legendary gunfighters and friends
who gained immortality because of a thirty-second shootout near
a livery stable called the O.K. Corral. Their friendship actually began three years before that iconic 1881 gunfight, in the rollicking
cattle town of Dodge City. Wyatt, an assistant city marshal,
was surrounded by armed, belligerent cowboys.
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
by Walter Isaacson
To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson takes
readers on a ... deep dive into the creation of one of history's
most powerful sentences: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.'
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-Lived Victory Over Totalitarianism
by Mikhail Zygar
Named a Best History Book of the Year by The Times (London).
From one of Russia's smartest and best-sourced (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union's collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never over--revealing the resurgence of imperialism in Russia and its current implications for the war in Ukraine.
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Mexico: A 500-Year History
by Paul Gillingham
From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a
rich and vibrant history of one of the world's most diverse,
politically ground-breaking, and influential of countries. At the
beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Paul Gillingham writes, from its outset Mexico was more profoundly,
globally hybrid than anywhere else in the prior history of the world.
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Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism by Fire
by Max Hastings
From the best-selling military historian, a thrilling account of the
valiant British role in the D-Day invasion. Between 1941 and 1944,
the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On
D-Day―June 6, 1944―the lives of British soldiers changed.
Thiry-five thousand infantrymen, airmen, and special service
operatives were sent headfirst into the whitest heat of war,
almost overnight.
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One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King,
and the Struggle Over an American
Ideal
by Nicholas Buccola
From the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic
untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s
decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom--and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics In the mid-1950s,
Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the leaders
of two diametrically opposed freedom movements that changed the course of American history--and still divide American politics.
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The American Revolution and the Fate
of the World
by Richard Bell
Historian Richard Bell reveals the full breadth and depth of
America's founding event: the American Revolution was not
only the colonies' triumphant liberation from the rule of an
overbearing England, it was also a cataclysm that pulled in
participants from around the globe and threw the entire world
order into chaos.
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