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1929: The Year of the Great Crashby William K. KlingamanISBN 0060917024 (0-06-091702-4)
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1941, Our Lives in a World on the Edgeby William K. KlingamanISBN 0060916192 (0-06-091619-2)
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After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905by Patricia BeardISBN 0060958928 (0-06-095892-8)
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Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazerby Sena Jeter Naslund, Christopher WormellISBN 0060838744 (0-06-083874-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer'Book summary:It has been said that one can see farther only by standing on the shoulders of giants. Ahab's Wife, Sena Naslund's epic work of historical fiction, honors that aphorism, using Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as looking glass into early-19th-century America. Through the eye of an outsider, a woman, she suggests that New England life was broader and richer than Melville's manly world of men, ships, and whales. This ambitious novel pays tribute to Melville, creating heroines from his lesser characters, and to America's literary heritage in general.
Una, named for the heroine of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, flees to the New England coast from Kentucky to escape her father's puritanism and to pursue a more exalted life. She gets whaling out of her system early: going to sea at 16 disguised as a boy, Una has her ship sunk by her own monstrous whale, and survives a harrowing shipwreck:
I was so horrified by the whale's deliberate charge that I could not move. Then my own name flew up from below like a spear: "Una!" Giles' voice broke my trance, and I scrambled down the rigging. No sooner did my foot touch the deck than there was such a lurch that I fell to my face. I heard and felt the boards break below the waterline, the copper sheathing nothing but decorative foil. The whole ship shuddered. A death throe.
The ship dies, but Una returns to land to pursue the life of the mind. The novel's opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--also diminishes Melville's hero in the broader scheme of things. Naslund exposes the reader to the unsung, real-life heroes of Melville's world, including Margaret Fuller and her Boston salon, and Nantucket astronomer Maria Mitchell. There is a chance meeting with a veiled Nathaniel Hawthorne in the woods, and throughout the novel the story brims with references to the giants of literature: Shakespeare, Goethe, Coleridge, Keats, and Wordsworth. Although her novel runs long at nearly 700 pages, Naslund has created an imaginative, entertaining, and very impressive work. --Ted Leventhal [via]More editions of Ahab's Wife Or, the Star-Gazer:
Almost a Revolution: The Story of a Chinese Student's Journey from Boyhood to Leadership in Tiananmenby Shen Tong, Marianne YenISBN 0060974303 (0-06-097430-3)
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The American Dreamby Dan RatherISBN 006093770X (0-06-093770-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Dream'Book summary:Despite years of reporting on tragedies around the world, Dan Rather is clearly an optimist. His take on the American dream, as personified by more than 30 Americans, is an inspiring reminder that the ideals the nation was founded upon are still alive and well. Rather first looked at how Americans pursued the American dream in a yearlong feature for his CBS Evening News show. His book takes off where the series ended, with more in-depth stories of those successfully pursuing their version of the dream.
Nosrat Scott came to the U.S. in search of freedom of religion. She was so persecuted for her Bah'ai faith in Iran that she was moved to tears when she realized she could speak openly of her religion in her English-as-a-second-language class. For many, of course, the American dream is all about making it rich. Some traveled long distances only to be surprised by fortune, such as Trung Dung, who escaped Vietnam at the age of 17 and became a multimillionaire with his Internet start-up company. There are those who covet the pursuit of happiness as an end in itself, such as the couple who gave up their high-paying jobs in Southern California to move to a small town in Oregon in order to meet their "not rich criteria"--that is, time for family and community. And there are those who have to swallow their pride to get there, like the chef from Georgia who learned to read at age 26. Other dreams are organized under the headings of fame, family, innovation, and service, which could just as easily have been titled the pursuit of justice.
There are few recognizable names here, but the stories of these everyday heroes are a spirited antidote to a creeping national cynicism and a vigorous challenge to seize on the opportunities--and responsibilities--that the dream implies. --Lesley Reed [via]
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At Work in the Fields of the Bombby Robert Del TrediciISBN 0060961643 (0-06-096164-3)
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The Atlantic Campaign: World War Ii's Great Struggle at Seaby Dan Van Der Vat, Christine Van Der VatISBN 0060916311 (0-06-091631-1)
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The Battle History of the U.S. Marines: A Fellowship of Valorby Joseph H. Alexander, Norman Stahl, Don HoranISBN 0060931094 (0-06-093109-4)
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Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily July-August 1943by Carlo D'EsteISBN 0060973137 (0-06-097313-7)
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Black Hundredby Walter LaqueurISBN 0060925345 (0-06-092534-5)
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Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler the Von Moltke Family's Impact on German Historyby Otto FriedrichISBN 0060927674 (0-06-092767-4)
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Boswell's Clap and Other Essays: Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictionsby William B. OberISBN 0060971878 (0-06-097187-8)
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The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and World War IIby Howard BlumISBN 006093283X (0-06-093283-X)
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The Building of Manhattanby Donald A. MacKayISBN 0060916036 (0-06-091603-6)
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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller, Mary Doria RussellISBN 0060892994 (0-06-089299-4)
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Castles of England, Scotland and Walesby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060923512 (0-06-092351-2)
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City on Fire : The Explosion That Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battleby Bill MinutaglioISBN 0060959916 (0-06-095991-6)
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The Cold War As Historyby Louis J. HalleISBN 0060968885 (0-06-096888-5)
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Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Menby Richard Erdoes, Leonard Crow DogISBN 0060926821 (0-06-092682-1)
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The Crying of Lot 49by Thomas PynchonISBN 006091307X (0-06-091307-X)
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A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years With Ronald Reaganby Michael K. Deaver, Nancy ReaganISBN 0060957573 (0-06-095757-3)
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The Dream at the End of the World: Paul Bowles and the Literary Renegades in Tangierby Michelle GreenISBN 0060922672 (0-06-092267-2)
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Dust Tracks on a Roadby Zora Neale Hurston, Maya AngelouISBN 0060854081 (0-06-085408-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dust Tracks on a Road'Book summary:i have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then i have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and a sword in my hands." first published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity, this is zora neale hurston's unrestrained account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural south to prominence among the leading artists and intellectuals of the harlem renaissance. Full of wit and wisdom, and audaciously spirited, "dust tracks on a road" offers a rare, poignant glimpse of the life -- public and private -- of a premier african-american writer, artist, anthropologist and champion of the black heritage."warm, witty, imaginative, and down-to-earth by turns, this is a rich and winning book by one of our genuine, grade a, folk writers." "--the new yorker [via]
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The Encyclopedia of Bad Tasteby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0060921218 (0-06-092121-8)
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Faded Coat of Blueby Owen ParryISBN 0060937661 (0-06-093766-1)
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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Dieby Michael LargoISBN 0060817410 (0-06-081741-0)
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A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Rooseveltby Geoffrey C. WardISBN 0060920262 (0-06-092026-2)
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Flying Cloud: The True Story of America's Most Famous Clipper Ship and the Woman Who Guided Herby David W. ShawISBN 0060934786 (0-06-093478-6)
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Frida : A Biography of Frida Kahloby Hayden HerreraISBN 0060911271 (0-06-091127-1)
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chaptersby Matt RidleyISBN 0060894083 (0-06-089408-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters'Book summary:Science writer Matt Ridley has found a way to tell someone else's story without being accused of plagiarism. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters delves deep within your body (and, to be fair, Ridley's too) looking for dirt dug up by the Human Genome Project. Each chapter pries one gene out of its chromosome and focuses on its role in our development and adult life, but also goes further, exploring the implications of genetic research and our quickly changing social attitudes toward this information. Genome shies away from the "tedious biochemical middle managers" that only a nerd could love and instead goes for the A-material: genes associated with cancer, intelligence, sex (of course), and more.
Readers unfamiliar with the jargon of genetic research needn't fear; Ridley provides a quick, clear guide to the few words and concepts he must use to translate hard science into English. His writing is informal, relaxed, and playful, guiding the reader so effortlessly through our 23 chromosomes that by the end we wish we had more. He believes that the Human Genome Project will be as world-changing as the splitting of the atom; if so, he is helping us prepare for exciting times--the hope of a cure for cancer contrasts starkly with the horrors of newly empowered eugenicists. Anyone interested in the future of the body should get a head start with the clever, engrossing Genome. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazierby Mark KramISBN 0060954809 (0-06-095480-9)
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The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Againby Peter BeinartISBN 0060841613 (0-06-084161-3)
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The Great Taos Bank Robbery: And Other True Stories of the Southwestby Tony HillermanISBN 0060937122 (0-06-093712-2)
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Hitler's Nieceby Ron HansenISBN 0060932201 (0-06-093220-1)
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How Democracies Perishby Jean-Francois Revel, Branko M. LazicISBN 0060970111 (0-06-097011-1)
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How the Great Pyramid Was Builtby Craig B. Smith, Zahi Hawass, Andy RyanISBN 0060891580 (0-06-089158-0)
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The HPWay: How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Companyby David Packard, David Kirby, Karen R. LewisISBN 0060845791 (0-06-084579-1)
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Illywhackerby Peter CareyISBN 0060913312 (0-06-091331-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illywhacker'Book summary:In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national characterespcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies.
As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere. [via]More editions of Illywhacker:
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religionby Joseph CampbellISBN 0060963530 (0-06-096353-0)
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The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrantby Robert HutchinsonISBN 0060837330 (0-06-083733-0)
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Laura Ingalls Wilderby William AndersonISBN 0060885521 (0-06-088552-1)
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Leninby Ronald W. ClarkISBN 0060916982 (0-06-091698-2)
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Life of Mahatma Gandhiby FischerISBN 0060910380 (0-06-091038-0)
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Lords of the Northby Bernard CornwellISBN 0060888636 (0-06-088863-6)
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The Lore of the Unicornby Odell ShepardISBN 0060907215 (0-06-090721-5)
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The Lost Lore of a Man's Life: Lots of Cool Stuff Guys Used to Know but Forgot About the Great Outdoorsby Gregg Stebben, Denis BoylesISBN 0060952245 (0-06-095224-5)
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Talesby Oliver SacksISBN 0060970790 (0-06-097079-0)
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The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairsby Bill Woodward, Madeleine AlbrightISBN 0060892587 (0-06-089258-7)
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The Mighty And the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, And World Affairsby William Woodward, Madeleine AlbrightISBN 0060892579 (0-06-089257-9)
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Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791by Volkmar BraunbehrensISBN 0060974052 (0-06-097405-2)
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My Battle of Algiers: A Memoirby Ted MorganISBN 0060852240 (0-06-085224-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir'Book summary:In My Battle of Algiers, an eminent historian and biographer recounts his own experiences in the savage Algerian War, an event all too reminiscent of America's present difficulties in Iraq.
Ted Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget. A Yale graduate who had grown up in both France and America -- he was then known as Sanche de Gramont and was then a French citizen -- he was drafted into the French Army and served in Algeria 1956 and '57. In this memoir, Morgan relives the harrowing conflict in which every Arab was considered a terrorist -- and increasingly, many were.
As a newly minted second lieutenant, he spends months in the back country -- the bled -- where everyone, including himself, becomes involved in unimaginable barbarities. "You cannot fight a guerrilla war with humanitarian principles," a superior officer tells Morgan early on. He beats up and kills a prisoner who won't talk and may have been responsible for the death of a friend. He kills another man in a firefight. He sees men die in encounters too small to be recorded, ones that his fellow soldiers quickly forget. For Morgan, the memories will never go away.
Later, in Algiers, Morgan's journalistic experience -- he had spent all of four months as a reporter on the Worcester, MA, Telegram -- gets him a job writing for an official newspaper. He lives through the day-to-day struggle to put down an Arab urban insurgency, the first in modern history, with its unrelenting menu of bombings, assassinations, torture, show trials, executions, and the deliberate humiliation of prisoners. He misses death when a beach casino explodes just as he is going in for lunch. He becomes disillusioned with the war and what it is doing to his country. He is himself arrested, but not for the real offense he committed, helping a deserter to escape.
Though the events Ted Morgan describes so vividly happened nearly half a century ago in Algiers, they might as well have taken place in Baghdad today.
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Native Sonby Wright, Arnold RampersadISBN 006083756X (0-06-083756-X)
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A more compelling story than Native Son has not been written in the 20th century by an American writer. That is not to say that Richard Wright created a novel free of flaws, but that he wrote the first novel that successfully told the most painful and unvarnished truth about American social and class relations. As Irving Howe asserted in 1963, "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. It made impossible a repetition of the old lies [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture."
Other books had focused on the experience of growing up black in America--including Wright's own highly successful Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of five stories that focused on the victimization of blacks who transgressed the code of racial segregation. But they suffered from what he saw as a kind of lyrical idealism, setting up sympathetic black characters in oppressive situations and evoking the reader's pity. In Native Son, Wright was aiming at something more. In Bigger, he created a character so damaged by racism and poverty, with dreams so perverted, and with human sensibilities so eroded, that he has no claim on the reader's compassion:
"I didn't want to kill," Bigger shouted. "But what I killed for, I am! It must've been pretty deep in me to make me kill! I must have felt it awful hard to murder.... What I killed for must've been good!" Bigger's voice was full of frenzied anguish. "It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something... I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em. It's the truth..."
Wright's genius was that, in preventing us from feeling pity for Bigger, he forced us to confront the hopelessness, misery, and injustice of the society that gave birth to him. --Andrew Himes [via]
One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dreamby Phyllis VineISBN 0060938277 (0-06-093827-7)
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The Oysters of Locmariaquerby Eleanor Clark, Mark KurlanskyISBN 0060887427 (0-06-088742-7)
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Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoirby Cheri RegisterISBN 0060936843 (0-06-093684-3)
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Papillonby Henri CharriereISBN 0060934794 (0-06-093479-4)
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Paradise Alleyby Kevin BakerISBN 006087595X (0-06-087595-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Alley'Book summary:Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker's follow-up to Dreamland, makes full use of his skills as a top historical researcher. Paradise Alley concerns a tumultuous moment in the record of the Civil War: the 1863 New York riots that followed President Lincoln's decision to create a draft. Baker refers to the street violence as one of the worst instances of civic unrest in American history. Yet one can't tell a compelling story with simple pronouncements. Baker gives us a handful of characters--fictional, yet emblematic--who lead readers through the dense weave of class, race, ambition, gender politics, and violence in mid-19th-century America. More importantly, Baker has that rare gift of establishing crucial links between the past and the present, of helping a reader understand that we live with the consequences of history. A hugely ambitious project, Baker wrestles with his responsibility to the overall vision as well as to many, many outstanding moments, and for the most part he gets the balance right. --Tom Keogh [via]
A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865by Phillip S. PaludanISBN 0060916079 (0-06-091607-9)
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Pilgrimby Timothy FindleyISBN 0060929375 (0-06-092937-5)
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Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba 1928-1978by Paul HollanderISBN 0060910291 (0-06-091029-1)
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The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern Americaby Robert NisbetISBN 0060915781 (0-06-091578-1)
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Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kiddby Barry Clifford, Paul PerryISBN 0060959827 (0-06-095982-7)
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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angelesby Margaret Leslie DavisISBN 0060921943 (0-06-092194-3)
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The Sadeian Womanby Angela CarterISBN 0060907681 (0-06-090768-1)
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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasmsby Ron RosenbaumISBN 0060934468 (0-06-093446-8)
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Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny the Founding Fathersby R. B. MorrisISBN 0060904542 (0-06-090454-2)
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The South in Modern Americaby D. GranthamISBN 0060922087 (0-06-092208-7)
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Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generationby Karl Taro GreenfieldISBN 0060926651 (0-06-092665-1)
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Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953by Jonathan Brent, Vladimir P. NaumovISBN 0060933100 (0-06-093310-0)
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On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be called, was Stalin's last crime.
In the fifty years since Stalin's death many myths have grown up about the Doctors' Plot. Did Stalin himself invent the conspiracy against the Jewish doctors or was it engineered by subordinates who wished to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Did Stalin intend a purge of all Jews from Moscow, Leningrad, and other major cities, which might lead to a Soviet Holocaust? How was this plot related to the cold war then dividing Europe, and the hot war in Korea? Finally, was the Doctors' Plot connected with Stalin's fortuitous death?
Brent and Naumov have explored an astounding arra of previously unknown, top-secret documents from the KGB, the presidential archives, and other state and party archives in order to probe the mechanism of on of Stalin's greatest intrigues -- and to tell for the first time the incredible full story of the Doctors' Plot.
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedomby Peter GuralnickISBN 0060960493 (0-06-096049-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom'Book summary:Nat Hentoff has called Peter Guralnick "a national resource," and for once this isn't a piece of hype. Guralnick may be a premiere chronicler of American popular music, which he writes about with brains, reverence, and a peculiar tenderness for dashed dreams. In this volume, he records the rise and fall of Stax Records--the Memphis powerhouse that produced a string of classics from the likes of Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Carla Thomas, Booker T. and the MGs, and Johnnie Taylor. The birth of modern rhythm-and-blues makes for a fascinating story. But there's another story behind that one--the racial tensions that eventually tore Stax apart--which makes the book richer, and sadder, than we have any right to expect. [via]
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Sword over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaignby Richard WheelerISBN 006092067X (0-06-092067-X)
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Thereby Hangs a Tale: Stories of Curious Word Originsby Charles Earle FunkISBN 006091260X (0-06-091260-X)
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Transformations of Myth Through Timeby Joseph CampbellISBN 0060964634 (0-06-096463-4)
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Truth at Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clintonby Susan Schmidt, Michael WeisskopfISBN 0060932821 (0-06-093282-1)
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Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplaneby Seth ShulmanISBN 0060956151 (0-06-095615-1)
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Vby Thomas PynchonISBN 0060930217 (0-06-093021-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'V'Book summary:Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V., who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. [via]
War at Sea in the Ironclad Ageby J. R. Hill, John KeeganISBN 006089167X (0-06-089167-X)
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War In The Air 1914-45by John Keegan, Williamson MurrayISBN 0060838566 (0-06-083856-6)
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Warfare in the Seventeenth Centuryby John ChildsISBN 006089170X (0-06-089170-X)
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The Wars of America Vol. 1: From 1600 to 1900by Robert LeckieISBN 0060924098 (0-06-092409-8)
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Wheelock's Latinby Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LafleurISBN 0060956410 (0-06-095641-0)
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The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865by Stephen B. OatesISBN 0060930926 (0-06-093092-6)
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Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984by Andrei AmalrikISBN 0060907320 (0-06-090732-0)
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Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century Women Writersby Susan CahillISBN 0060969989 (0-06-096998-9)
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Years With Rossby James ThurberISBN 0060959711 (0-06-095971-1)
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The Yellow Kids: Foreign Correspondents in the Heyday of Yellow Journalismby Joyce MiltonISBN 0060920157 (0-06-092015-7)
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Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literatureby Richard A. LafleurISBN 0060935065 (0-06-093506-5)
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