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Demon of unrest a saga of hubris heartbreak and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War
Larson, Erik, 1954-
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times). ...
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After 1177 B c The Survival of Civilizations
Cline, Eric H.
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In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed--why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever "A landmark book: lucid, deep, and insightful. ....
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Longest con how grifters swindlers and frauds hijacked American conservatism
Conason, Joe
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A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise - and why Donald Trump became the living emblem of the American right's moral decay. The Longest Con tells the fascinating story of the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative...
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Black pill how I witnessed the darkest corners of the internet come to life poison society and c
Reeve, Elle
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This tour de force of investigative journalism--in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We're Polarized--reveals how the battle between the right and left is spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences. ...
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Missing Thread A Women's History of the Ancient World
Dunn, Daisy.
Paper Book
"Thoroughly researched and sprightly.... a complete history of the [Mediterranean world] with the women added back in, as they always should have been."--The New York Times A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center--from Cleopatra...
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Alexander at the End of the World The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
Kousser, Rachel.
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"A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure." --Ilyon Woo A riveting biography of Alexander the Great's final years, when the leader's insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy. By 330 B.C.E., Alexander...
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End of everything how wars descend into annihilation
Hanson, Victor Davis
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An instant New York Times bestseller, this "profound book" (Wall Street Journal) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time War can settle disputes, topple...
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Bookshop a history of the American bookstore
Friss, Evan
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." --The New York Times "It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." -...
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Wide wide sea imperial ambition first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James C
Sides, Hampton
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's...
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Age of grievance
Bruni, Frank
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision." --Wall Street Journal * "The best prescription for our redemption." --The New York Times * "A wise and humane book for our foolish and cruel era." --Jonathan Haidt, author of The...
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White robes and broken badges infiltrating the KKK and exposing the evil among us
Moore, Joe (FBI undercover agent)
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In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods of the Sunshine State, uncovering details about the hate group's structure and its modern far-right spinoffs which are operating to achieve the same goal:...
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Raiders rulers and traders the horse and the rise of empires
Chaffetz, David
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No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long-distance trade...
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When the clock broke con men conspiracists and how America cracked up in the early 1990s
Ganz, John, 1985-
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie Bestseller A Barack Obama summer reading pick | A New York Times best book of 2024 so far One of Publishers Weekly's ten best books of 2024 "Terrific . . . Vibrant . . . When the...
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Death of truth how social media and the internet gave snake oil salesmen and demagogues the we
Brill, Steven, 1950-
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How did we become a world where facts-shared truths-have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts...
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Morning after the revolution dispatches from the wrong side of history
Bowles, Nellie.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds--and how she almost did, too. As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent...
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Book makers a history of the book in eighteen lives
Smyth, Adam
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A scholar and bookmaker "breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life" (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books tell all kinds of stories--romances, tragedies,...
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TALENTED MRS MANDELBAUM THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME BOSS
FOX, MARGALIT.
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America's first great organized-crime lord was a lady--a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum. "A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket's finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York."--Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood
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Horse a galloping history of humanity
Winegard, Timothy C. 1977-
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER An Amazon Best Book of the Month A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book From New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history Timothy C....
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Indispensable Right Free Speech in an Age of Rage
Turley, Jonathan.
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A "timely and brilliant original" (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech--our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very essence of being human. The...
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Eastern Front a history of the Great War 1914-1918
Lloyd, Nick
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Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the combatants, in its military kaleidoscope, it far surpasses by magnitude and intensity all similar human...
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Seven Wonders of the ancient world an extraordinary new journey through history's greatest tre
Hughes, Bettany
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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * From the award-winning historian and broadcaster comes an immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shared history "This fascinating book is brimming with stories of...
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White Poverty How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
Barber, William J.
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One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, continue to think of poverty--along with issues like welfare...
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Democracy or else how to save America in 10 easy steps
Favreau, Jon, 1981-
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From your friends at Pod Save America comes a useful and illustrated guide to saving American democracy just in time for the 2024 election and 2025 insurrection If you're looking to navigate the chaotic,...
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Targeted beirut the 1983 marine barracks bombing and the untold origin story of the war on terro
Carr, Jack (Joint pseudonym)
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The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in...
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We have never been woke the cultural contradictions of a new elite
al-Gharbi, Musa, 1983-
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How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged Society has never been more egalitarian--in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and...
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Situation room the inside story of presidents in crisis
Stephanopoulos, George, 1961-
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation...
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Shameless destroying the Republican playbook for dysfunction and the battle to preserve democracy
Cohen, Brian Tyler
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler Cohen takes a step back from the day-to-day news cycle to explain how American politics has turned into such a dumpster fire--and what Democrats...
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KENT STATE AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
VANDEMARK, BRIAN.
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On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political crosscurrents that had been building in America during the 1960s reached critical mass. Anti-war protestors sporting bell-bottomed pants and long hair hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young Americans-National Guardsmen wearing...
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Rebellion how antiliberalism is tearing america apart again
Kagan, Robert.
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A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in...
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Light of Battle Eisenhower D Day and the Birth of the American Superpower
Paradis, Michel
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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history. "This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower." -...
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Tired of winning Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
Karl, Jonathan
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The most important thing that has been written to date about what is in front of the American people in the next presidential election." --Nicolle Wallace An extraordinary view into the politics of our times,...
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Cunning Folk Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Stanmore, Tabitha
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"Rich and lively."--New York Times Book Review A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe...
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American Civil Wars A Continental History 1850-1873
Taylor, Alan
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In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America's three largest countries--the United States, Mexico, and Canada--all transformed themselves...
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Antiracism as daily practice refuse shame change white communities and help create a just world
Harvey, Jennifer, 1971-
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"Nurturing and inspiring."―Kirkus Reviews "An essential book of practical wisdom.... If you're white and have been asking, 'What can I do now?' this lively and timely book is for you."―Robert Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Roots of...
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For love of country why i left the democratic party
Gabbard, Tulsi.
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**New York Times bestseller** Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democrat Party. But the growing wokeness, fomenting racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left. This is her story and a call to action to Americans who love our country and...
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When the Sea Came Alive An Oral History of D Day
Graff, Garrett M.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Absolutely gripping." --The Washington Post * "A masterpiece of oral history...stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting." --Evan Thomas From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in...
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Unfinished love story a personal history of the 1960s
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from "America's historian-in-chief" (New York magazine). An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography,...
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No going back the truth on what's wrong with politics and how we move america forward
Noem, Kristi
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A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The New York Times bestselling author, governor of South Dakota, and former congresswoman tells eye-opening stories of DC dysfunction, shares lessons from leading her state through unprecedented challenge, and explains how...
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Book and Dagger How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
White, E. J.
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The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today's CIA, was quickly...
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Out of the Darkness The Germans 1942-2022
Trentmann, Frank
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#1 Most Important Political Book of 2023, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) A Best Book of 2023, The Telegraph (Great Britain) A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the war in Ukraine, including revealing new primary source material...
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Quiet Damage Qanon and the Destruction of the American Family
Cook, Jesselyn.
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The"gripping" (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations. "Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil war...
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Patton's prayer a true story of courage faith and victory in World War II
Kershaw, Alex
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General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily since September, turning roads into rivers of muck, slowing trucks and tanks to a crawl. A thick ceiling of clouds had grounded American warplanes, allowing the Germans to...
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Challenger a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space
Higginbotham, Adam
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Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize * Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Stunning...A heart-pounding thriller...Challenger is a remarkable book." --The Atlantic * "Devastating...A...
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Get it together troubling tales from the liberal fringe
Watters, Jesse, 1978-
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Can the political be way too personal What if most radical activists are trying to change their lives by changing the whole country When Jesse Watters set out to interview a few dozen radical activists to find out where their...
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Nazi conspiracy the secret plot to kill Roosevelt Stalin and Churchill
Meltzer, Brad
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An absolute home run! You will never look at WWII the same way again." --Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author "Meltzer and Mensch are masters." --Jon Meacham, author The Soul of America "A...
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FINISH WHAT WE STARTED THE MAGA MOVEMENT S GROUND WAR TO END DEMOCRACY
ARNSDORF, ISAAC.
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New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick "Entertaining, enlightening and disturbing." - Ira Glass The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6,...
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