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The Harmonious Home: Designing Peaceful, Personal Spaces Inspired by Nature
by Rebecca Atwood
Think of a place outside that contains a mood you want to bring into your home, such as the beach or a garden you saw on your travels. Identify the colors in its landscape and you can choose a room's paint colors. Pick out its textures and you can decide what materials--rugs, wallpaper, upholstery fabric--to bring into the room. The harmonious home walks you through six different landscapes--dunes, ocean, field, forest, garden, and city--and shows you how to pull together color and pattern combinations you might not have imagined on your own that evoke the feeling of the place without looking overly thematic.
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Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
by Keza MacDonald
In Super Nintendo, lifelong gamer and a renowned video games journalist Keza MacDonald traces Nintendo back to its quirky
beginnings in 1889, illuminating its singular ethos, its endlessly innovative leaders and developers, its massive cultural impact, and,
most of all, the video games themselves, which have inspired joy and creativity in millions. Leaping from game to game, Super Nintendo tells the remarkable story of the people who brought us Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, and more--not to mention the SNES, N64, Game Boy, Wii, Switch, and a host of other wacky gizmos--and charts the delights they've offered over the decades.
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Martin Scorsese All the Films: The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short
by Olivier Bousquet
Martin Scorsese: All the Films is the ultimate deep dive into every one
of his films from his early indie days with Who's That Knocking at My Door to his latest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, plus classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas that are regularly cited as being among the finest films ever made. Covering each of the director's 26 feature films, 17 documentary films, 7 short films, and 4 television episodes, the book draws upon years of research to tell the behind-
the-scenes stories of how each project was conceived, cast, and produced. It explores the themes, techniques, and cultural impact of each movie, examining how Scorsese's work evolved alongside his personal obsessions and how he has navigated Hollywood's changing landscape.
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Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater
by Mark Larson
A monumental behind-the-scenes oral history of Chicago's theater movement spanning 1953 to the present day, from the people who
made it happen. Includes commentary from scores of celebrated
actors, writers, and more.
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The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg--And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
by Paul Fischer
In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed twenty-year-old from a peripatetic Jewish family, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship for the struggling studio and
become a film director in his own right. Within a year, the three men would become friends. Based on extensive research and hundreds of original interviews with the inner circle of these Hollywood icons, The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how, over the next fifteen years, the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema.
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Football
by Chuck Klosterman
A hilarious, but nonetheless groundbreaking, contribution to the argument about which force shapes American life the most. For two kinds of readers: those who know it's football and those who are
about to find out.
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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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Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences
by Neal Allen
Starting where The Elements of Style leaves off, Good Writing can improve your book, your essay, your memo, your blog post, speech, or script. These essential rules for persuasive language work on any type
of writing, and anyone can learn them quickly. Each rule is
accompanied by examples and a lively pair of essays, the first by Neal Allen, who developed the list of tips over the course of his journalism and corporate careers; the second by his wife, Anne Lamott, acclaimed author of Bird by Bird and nineteen other nonfiction works and novels. Whether you're a novice writer or a seasoned author, this entertaining guide will revolutionize your approach to crafting sentences.
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Winter: The Story of a Season
by Val McDermid
A hygge-filled journey through winter nights, McDermid reminds us
that it is a time of rest, retreat and creativity, for scribbling in
notebooks and settling in beside the fire. A treat for the hunkering-
down, post-holiday reading season, Winter is a charming and cozy celebration of the year’s idle months from one of Scotland’s best-loved writers.
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On Morrison
by Namwali Serpell
Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Namwali Serpell puts it, she is our only truly canonical black, female writer-and her work is highly complex. In On Morrison, Serpell brings
her unique experience as both an award-winning writer and professor who teaches a course on Morrison to illuminate her masterful experiments with literary form. This is Morrison as you've never encountered her before, a journey through her oeuvre-her fiction and criticism, as well as her lesser-known dramatic works and poetry-with contextual guidance, archival discoveries, and original close readings.
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Hannibal Lecter: A Life
by Brian Raftery
Drawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibal's journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly adored antihero. This unique biography traces the many lives and crimes of Hannibal Lecter: his disturbing debut in Thomas Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon; his rise to infamy in beloved films like Michael Mann's Manhunter and Jonathan Demme's Academy Award-winning The Silence of the Lambs; and his unexpected comeback in the cult-hit TV series Hannibal. It also dives into the untold life and career of Harris, the secretive bestselling author whose passion for reporting, eye for grisly detail, and connections to the FBI helped birth not only Lecter, but also the modern true-crime genre.
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One Aladdin Two Lamps
by Jeanette Winterson
A woman is filibustering for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to explore new and ancient questions. In her guise as Aladdin--the orphan who changes his world--Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know. To look again. Especially to look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realizes through the power of books that she can read herself as fiction as well as a fact: I can change the story because I am the story.
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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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Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe's First Family
by Veronica Buckley
By 1764, after a generation of costly war, confronted by shaken
alliances, immense debts, and restive subjects, the Empress Maria Theresia was seeking once again to assert the dynasty's power
through strategic marriages. Her arsenal was full: her seven daughters were to serve as her pawns in the ruthless game of eighteenth-century dynastic politicking. Delivered to the grandest or dingiest courts in Europe, they made their difficult and even dangerous ways.
Meticulously researched and animated by the sisters' own diaries and
the almost daily letters traversing the continent, Seven Sisters reveals the drama, tragedy and comedy of these exceptional, yet all too
human lives. It is a vivid portrait of a brilliant world collapsing in a
fearful time.
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
by Daniel Rood
In a narrative that sweeps across four hundred years of American history, Rood reveals that the plantation did not die after the Civil War.
It metastasized. From the advent of sharecropping in the late
nineteenth century to the rise of cotton in mid-twentieth century California to today’s chicken processing plants―which sit on the same land once occupied by plantations and are staffed largely by migrant workers―the plantation has cast a long shadow over American life.
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The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America
by Jeffrey Rosen
Jeffrey Rosen explores the clashing visions of Hamilton and Jefferson about how to balance liberty and power in a debate that continues to define--and divide--our country: Jefferson championed states' rights
and individual liberties, while Hamilton pushed for a strong federal government and a powerful executive. This ongoing tug-of-war has shaped all the pivotal moments in American history, including Abraham Lincoln's fight against slavery and Southern secession, the expansion of federal power under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and Ronald
Reagan's and Donald Trump's conservative push to shrink the size of
the federal government. Rosen also shows how Hamilton and
Jefferson's disagreement over how to read the Constitution has shaped landmark debates in Congress and the Supreme Court about executive power, from John Marshall's early battles with Andrew Jackson to the current divisions among the justices on issues from presidential
immunity to control over the administrative state.
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Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution
by Anand Gopal
In 2011, in a northern Syrian city, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew one of the world's most brutal dictatorships. For the next eighteen months, citizens of Manbij carried out one of the most remarkable experiments in democracy in modern times. This book details the powerfully intimate narratives of men and women who led this struggle, and who experience the highs of camaraderie and the lows of betrayal: a pair of best friends torn apart
by political polarization, a mother who stands up to male dominance,
a worker who risks everything for the dream of equality.
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We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
by Norah O'Donnell
We the Women presents a fresh look at American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded
that the country live up to the promises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: 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. Since the signing of that document, the pressing question from women has
been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us? Through
extensive research and interviews, as well as historical documents and old photos, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. She brings these extraordinary women together
for the first time, and in doing so writes the American story anew.
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El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
by Jazmine Ulloa
El Paso has been called the Ellis Island of America's southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goes. El Paso is an extraordinary, can't-look-away reported history; it uses deep research and dozens of new interviews to blow away the
myth of this place, where Mexico's Juarez and America's El Paso intertwine. It charts the history of El Paso through five families. Ulloa draws upon meticulous research and reporting and stunning historical detail to craft the intimate narratives of an unforgettable cast of characters.
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Kennedy's Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America's Descent Into Vietnam
by Jack Cheevers
Combining the dark intrigue of a Cold War thriller and the propulsive writing of a novel, Kennedy's Coup is a landmark work that will change your understanding of America's involvement in one of the most controversial and consequential wars in our history. Based on a decade of research and writing, enriched by eyewitness interviews and
revealing documents obtained through dozens of freedom of
information requests, Kennedy's Coup vividly recreates the Kennedy Administration's secret encouragement of the fatal 1963 military coup against South Vietnam's defiant president. The brutal assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem by his own generals--which capped weeks of bitter
White House infighting amid JFK's wavering--led to dreadful consequences for the United States, opening the door to nine years of costly and futile warfare in Vietnam. The definitive history of one of the most catastrophic decisions ever made by a US president, shedding
new light on events that altered the world, Kennedy's Coup will be a work of lasting importance.
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Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America
by Eugene Robinson
Pulitzer Prize-winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation's torturous racial history through his own family's story, starting with his great-grandfather's freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today's Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different. Setting his extensive research within the larger historical context, Robinson provides both an indictment of structural racism and an illustration of how it has been fought and, at times, courageously overcome.
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End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
by Chris Jennings
On August 21, 1992, shots rang out while federal agents were
surveilling a cabin in Boundary County, Idaho as part of an operation to arrest Randy Weaver--a reclusive, mountain-dwelling survivalist--for failure to appear in court on a gun charge. When Weaver finally surrendered to the authorities eleven days later, his wife, son, and dog lay dead, as did a US Marshal. In End of Days, Chris Jennings explains the significance of this historic siege by setting the story of the Weaver family within the long history of apocalyptic Christianity in the United States, illuminating the ways in which that faith has gradually transformed the nation. The strain of doomsday Christianity that
gripped the Weavers was grounded in a particular reading of biblical prophecy that can be traced back to the 1870s and up through the twentieth-century rise of Christian fundamentalism to the right-wing conspiracism that now defines American society and politics.
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Storm at the Capitol: An Oral History of January 6th
by Mary Clare Jalonick
The January 6th insurrection was a stunning and unprecedented attack on the center of American government. Unlike previous national
traumas that united the country in the face of turmoil, the siege has
only further divided Americans, as many continue to dispute the facts and downplay its significance. In Storm at the Capitol, Mary Clare Jalonick delivers a deeply reported and definitive account of the
violence at the Capitol told through firsthand narratives-from the
rioters themselves and the police who fought them, to the lawmakers who fled the violence, and the staff, workers, and reporters who were there that day, including Jalonick herself.
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The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
by David J. Silverman
In The Chosen and the Damned, acclaimed historian David J. Silverman traces Indian-White racial arguments across four centuries, from the bloody colonial wars for territory to the national wars of extermination justified as “Manifest Destiny"; from the creation of reservations and boarding schools to the rise of the Red Power movement and beyond.
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The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
by Mark Braude
In 1925, the Indianapolis-born Janet Flanner took an assignment to
write a regular 'Letter from Paris' for a lighthearted humor magazine called The New Yorker. But as she woke to the frightening signs of
rising extremism, economic turmoil, and widespread discontent in Europe, Flanner ignored her editor's directives, reinventing herself, her assignment, and The New Yorker in the process. Flanner also became gripped by the disturbing crimes of Eugen Weidmann, a German con-man and murderer, and the last man to be publicly executed in France. Flanner covered his crimes, capture, and highly politicized trial, seeing the case as a metaphor for understanding the tumultuous years
through which she'd just passed and to prepare herself for the
dangers to come.
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Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
by Howard Bryant
Kings and Pawns is the untold story of sports and fame, Black
America, and the promise of integration through the Cold War lens of two transformative events. The first occurred July 18, 1949 in Washington, D.C., when a reluctant Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball star who at the time was the most famous Black
man in America, appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee to discredit Paul Robeson, the legendary athlete, baritone, and actor -- himself once the most famous Black man in America.
The second occurred June 12, 1956, when a battered, defiant
Robeson, prohibited from leaving the United States, faced off in a
final showdown with HUAC in the same setting Robinson appeared in seven years earlier. These two moments would epitomize the ongoing Black American conflict between patriotism and protest. From the
revival of government overreach to curb civil liberties to the Cold
War-era rhetoric of the enemy within levied against fellow citizens,
Kings and Pawns is a story of a moment that remains hauntingly
present.
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The Six Loves of James I
by Gareth Russell
Named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal and Daily Mail,
this is a groundbreaking and insightful exploration of King James I, enigmatic successor to Queen Elizabeth. Gareth Russell offers a
candid narrative that not only reveals James's relationships
with five prominent men, but also challenges the historical standards applied to the examination of royal intimacies. This biography stands
as a significant contribution to the understanding of royal history, illuminating the personal experiences that shaped James's political decisions and his philosophical views on masculinity and sexuality.
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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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