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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe

by George Friedman

Published: 2016-02-16

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New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman delivers a fascinating portrait of modern-day Europe, with special focus on significant political, cultural, and geographical flashpoints where the conflicts of the past are smoldering once again.For the past fiv...

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Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

by Anne Garrels

Published: 2017-03-14

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Short-listed for the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeMore than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contai...

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Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 2015-01-06

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.   Over the last decade, ...

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Traces of Guilt (An Evie Blackwell Cold Case)

by Dee Henderson

Published: 2016-05-03

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A Riveting Cold-Case Mystery from Dee HendersonEvie Blackwell loves her life as an Illinois State Police detective . . . mostly. She's very skilled at investigations and has steadily moved up through the ranks. She would like to find Mr. Right, but she has a hard time imagining how marriag...

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When My Brother Was an Aztec

by Natalie Diaz

Published: 2012-05-08

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"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone fr...

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A Gate at the Stairs

by Loorie Moore Lorrie Moore

Published: 2010

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Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionChosen as a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Real Simpl...

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Too Like the Lightning: A Novel (Terra Ignota)

by Ada Palmer

Published: 2017-01-24

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Compton Crook 35th Award winner and shortlisted candidate for the 2017 Hugo Award Best Novel category, Ada Palmer's political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originalityMycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is ...

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Black Widow: A Jack Parlabane Thriller

by Christopher Brookmyre

Published: 2016-11-01

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Winner of the 2016 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the yearFrom Scottish crime master Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow tells the potent story of a woman who thought she was too late for love, the man who falls for her ambition, and the secret selves that are poised, at any mo...

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The Queen's Accomplice: A Maggie Hope Mystery

by Susan Elia MacNeal

Published: 2016-10-04

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Spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope returns to war-weary London, where she is thrust into the dangerous hunt for a monster, as the New York Times bestselling mystery series for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry continues. England, 1942. The Nazis’ rele...

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The Blood of Emmett Till

by Timothy B. Tyson

Published: 2017-01-31

Hardcover: 304 pages

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This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).In 1955, white men in t...