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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945

by Nicholas Stargardt

Published: 2015-10-13

Hardcover: 760 pages

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As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the Germans prolong the barbaric conflict for three and a half more years?In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of primary source materials—...

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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

by Lillian Faderman

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 816 pages

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"The most comprehensive history to date of America's gay-rights movement." --The Economist "To read her is like viewing the AIDS quilt, which overwhelms the viewer with the care taken in each of its numberless panels. Any revolutionary would be lucky to stand in a light so steady, so searc...

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The Fly Trap

by Fredrik Sjöberg

Published: 2015-06-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A Nature Book of the Year (The Times (UK))“The hoverflies are only props. No, not only, but to some extent. Here and there, my story is about something else.” A mesmerizing memoir of extraordinary brilliance by an entomologist, The Fly Trap chronicles Fredrik Sjöberg’s life collecti...

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Empire of Cotton: A Global History

by Sven Beckert

Published: 2015-11-10

Paperback: 640 pages

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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern ...

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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

by Jon Meacham

Published: 2015-11-10

Hardcover: 864 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush.NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book R...

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The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne

by Anna Bikont

Published: 2015-09-15

Hardcover: 560 pages

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A monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its sixty-year denial, and the impact of its truthJan Gross's hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish popu...

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The Complete Works of Primo Levi

by Primo Levi

Published: 2015-09-28

Hardcover: 3008 pages

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2015 Washington Post Notable BookThe Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Levi’s books?memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction?into three slipcased volumes.Primo Levi, the Italian...

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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

by William Finnegan

Published: 2015-07-21

Hardcover: 464 pages

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**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**“Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfb...

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Augustine: Conversions to Confessions

by Robin Lane Fox

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 688 pages

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Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first thirty years of his life struggling to understand the nature of God and his w...

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Petty: The Biography

by Warren Zanes

Published: 2015-11-10

Hardcover: 336 pages

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An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with PettyNo one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and ...