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Series: A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 John Norton - Teyoninhokarawen Paperback Carl Benn 9781487523268 $37.95 HISTORY Nov 17, 2019

A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada. Norton saw more action during the conflict than almost anyone else, being present at the fall of Detroit, the capture of Fort Niagara, the battles of Queenston Heights, Fort George, Stoney Creek, Chippawa, and Lundy’s Lane, the blockades of Fort George and Fort Erie, as well as a large number of skirmishes and front-line patrols. His memoir des... + Read More
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Series: Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey Paperback Suzanne Berliner Weiss 9781773632186 $22.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2019

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis on a farm in rural France. Alone after the war, she lived in progressive-run orphanages, where she gained a belief in peace and brotherhood. Adoption by a New York family led to a tumultuous youth haunted by domestic conflict, fear of nuclear war and anti-communist repression, consignment to a detention home and magical steps toward relinking... + Read More
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Series: Art and Rivalry The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt Hardcover Carol Bishop-Gwyn 9780345808424 $34.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 08, 2019

The unauthorized biography of Canada’s most famous artist couple and the rivalry that drove them.She painted as if with pure light, radiant colours making quotidian kitchen scenes come alive with sublimated drama. He painted like clockwork, each stroke precise and measured with exquisite care, leaving no angle unchecked and no subtlety of tone unattended. Some would say Mary Pratt was fire and Christopher, ice. And yet Newfoundland’s Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (or Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner…) presented their marriage as a portrait of har... + Read More
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Series: Life Writing What the Oceans Remember Searching for Belonging and Home Hardcover Sonja Boon 9781771124232 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 25, 2019

Author Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon’s family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her full heritage, replying “I’m Dutch-Canadian” to anyone who asks about her identity. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shap... + Read More
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Series: A Victory Garden for Trying Times Paperback Debi Goodwin 9781459745056 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 07, 2019

“A compelling and intimate reflection on love and grief and ordinary things that comfort and sustain us.” — Alison Smith, award-winning journalist Ever since her childhood on a Niagara farm, Debi has dug in the dirt to find resilience. But when her husband, Peter, was diagnosed with cancer in November, it was too late in the season to seek solace in her garden. With idle hands and a fearful mind, she sought something to sustain her through the months ahead. She soon came across Victory Gardens — the vegetable gardens cultivated during the worl... + Read More
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Series: All My Cats Hardcover Bohumil Hrabal 9780811228954 $28.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 26, 2019

In the autumn of 1965, flush with the unexpected success of his first published books, the Czech author Bohumil Hrabal bought a cottage in Kersko, about an hour’s drive east of Prague. From then until his death in 1997, he divided his time between Prague and Kersko, where he wrote and tended to a community of feral cats. Over the years, his relationship to cats grew deeper and more complex, becoming a measure of the pressures, both private and public, that impinged on his life as a writer. Despite the tender love he feels for the cats, especia... + Read More
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Series: Truth Be Told My Journey Through Life and the Law Hardcover Beverley McLachlin 9781982104962 $39.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 24, 2019

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country.As a young girl, Beverley McLachlin’s world was often full of wonder—at the expansive prairie vistas around her, at the stories she discovered in the books at her local library, and at the diverse people who passed through her parents’ door. While her family was poor, their live... + Read More
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Series: High School Hardcover Sara Quin 9781982112660 $32.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 24, 2019

First loves, first songs, and the drugs and reckless high school exploits that fueled them—meet music icons Tegan and Sara as you’ve never known them before in this intimate and raw account of their formative years. High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, growing up in the height of grunge and rave culture in the 90s, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their identity and sexuality, often al... + Read More
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Series: Beyond the Trees A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic Hardcover Adam Shoalts 9780735236837 $32.95 HISTORY Oct 01, 2019

A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from “Canada’s greatest living explorer.”In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America’s greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it’s still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being.Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies a maze of obstacle... + Read More
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Series: Yours, for Probably Always Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 Hardcover Janet Somerville 9780228101864 $40.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2019

(starred review) Somerville makes an impressive book debut with a life of novelist, journalist, and intrepid war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), told through a captivating selection of her letters to friends, family, husbands, and lovers. The volume is enriched by Somerville's biographical narrative and her decision to include responses of many recipients and, in some cases, letters between individuals who were especially significant in Gellhorn's life... An engrossing collection that burnishes Gellhorn's reputation as an astute ob... + Read More
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Series: Finding Chika A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family Hardcover Mitch Albom 9780062952394 $31.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 05, 2019

Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince.With no children of their own, the for... + Read More
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Series: The Invention of Yesterday A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection Hardcover Tamim Ansary 9781610397964 $38.00 HISTORY Oct 01, 2019

From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual AgeTraveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative.Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed thro... + Read More
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Series: Blue The Color of Noise Hardcover Steve Aoki 9781250111678 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 03, 2019

The music. The mix. His life."[A] passionate, introspective memoir." —Publishers Weekly"Sometimes I think my whole life can be seen through shades of blue..."—Steve AokiBlue is the remarkable story—in pictures and words—of Steve Aoki, the superstar DJ/producer who started his career as a vegan straightedge hardcore music kid hellbent on defying his millionaire father, whose unquenchable thirst to entertain—inherited from his dad, Rocky Aoki, founder of Benihana—led him to global success and two Grammy nominations.Ranked among the top ten DJs in... + Read More
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Series: Silver, Sword, and Stone Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story Hardcover Marie Arana 9781501104244 $39.99 HISTORY Aug 27, 2019

Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone).Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation on earth. Like her late husband, she works the gold mines much as the Indians were forced to... + Read More
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Series: The Age of Illusions How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory Hardcover Andrew J. Bacevich 9781250175083 $36.50 HISTORY Jan 07, 2020

A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author ofThe Limits of Power.When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For the world’s “indispensable nation,” its “sole superpower,” the future looked very bright. History, having brought the United States to the very summit of po... + Read More
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Series: Parisian Lives Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Hardcover Deirdre Bair 9780385542456 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 12, 2019

National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written—or even read—a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, intercontin... + Read More
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Series: Eyes to the Wind A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance Hardcover Ady Barkan 9781982111540 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 10, 2019

In this inspirational and moving memoir—reminiscent of When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Hour—activist Ady Barkan explores his life with ALS and how his diagnosis gave him a profound new understanding of his commitment to social justice for all. Ady Barkan loved taking afternoon runs on the California coast and holding his newborn son, Carl. But one day, he noticed a troubling weakness in his hand. At first, he brushed it off as carpal tunnel syndrome, but after a week of neurological exams and two MRIs, he learned the cause of the problem... + Read More
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Series: Stolen Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home Hardcover Richard Bell 9781501169434 $36.00 HISTORY Oct 15, 2019

A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught. Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive t... + Read More
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Series: The Forest City Killer A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice Paperback Vanessa Brown 9781770415034 $24.95 TRUE CRIME Oct 04, 2019

Dig deep into the unsolved murder of Jackie English and join the hunt for a serial killer Fifty years ago, a serial killer prowled the quiet city of London, Ontario, marking it as his hunting grounds. As young women and boys were abducted, raped, and murdered, residents of the area held their loved ones closer and closer, terrified of the monster — or monsters — stalking the streets. Homicide detective Dennis Alsop began hunting the killer in the 1960s, and he didn’t stop searching until his death 40 years later. For decades, detectives, ... + Read More
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Series: The Accusation Blood Libel in an American Town Hardcover Edward Berenson 9780393249422 $35.95 HISTORY Sep 10, 2019

A chilling investigation of America’s only alleged case of blood libel, and what it reveals about antisemitism in the United States and Europe.On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, age four, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of people looked everywhere for the child but could not find her. At one point, someone suggested that Barbara had been kidnapped and killed by Jews, and as the search continued, policemen and townspeople alike gave credence to the quickly spreading rumors. T... + Read More
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Series: The Less People Know About Us A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity Hardcover Axton Betz-Hamilton 9781538730287 $34.00 TRUE CRIME Oct 15, 2019

In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family.Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and relucta... + Read More
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Series: Exposure Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont Hardcover Robert Bilott 9781501172816 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 08, 2019

Silent Spring meets Erin Brockovich in this eye-opening, riveting true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous, unregulated chemical PFOA, uncovering a history of environmental contamination that affects virtually every person on the planet, and the heartless behavior that kept it a secret for sixty years. The story that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture from Participant Media/Focus Features starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, directed by Todd Haynes.1998: Rob Bilott... + Read More
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Series: Sorted Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) Hardcover Jackson Bird 9781982130756 $33.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 24, 2019

An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, through a childhood of gender mishaps and an awkward adolescence, he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties. When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection. Assigned female at birth and having been raised a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy. Jackson didn’t share this thought with anyone because he didn’t think h... + Read More
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Series: More Noble Than War A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine Paperback Nicholas Blincoe 9781568588889 $22.99 HISTORY Oct 29, 2019

A new lens into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, revealing how soccer has influenced politics--and how politics has shaped the beautiful game.Soccer has never been apolitical. This is especially true for Israel and Palestine. Its history in the region is longer than the conflict itself. Almost all of the earliest teams were formed by political leaders, and the sport always came with national aspirations attached. The game played a direct role in shaping the politics of both countries, and the view from the stands or the pitch shine a ... + Read More
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Series: The Undying Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care Hardcover Anne Boyer 9780374279349 $34.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 17, 2019

"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author ofNormal PeopleA week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who h... + Read More
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Series: Dreams of El Dorado A History of the American West Hardcover H. W. Brands 9781541672529 $40.00 HISTORY Oct 22, 2019

From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against ... + Read More
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Series: To Love and Let Go A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Gratitude Hardcover Rachel Brathen 9781501163999 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 17, 2019

“Rachel beautifully illustrates that loving fiercely and grieving deeply are often two halves of the same whole. Her story will break you down and lift you up.” —Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior and founder of Together RisingWhile on her way to teach a yoga retreat in March 2014, Rachel Brathen collapses at an airport, brought to her knees by excruciating stomach pains. She is rushed to the hospital on the tiny island of Bonaire, and hours later forced to undergo surgery. When she wakes up from anesthesia, ... + Read More
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Series: The Berlin Mission The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within Hardcover Richard Breitman 9781541742161 $35.00 HISTORY Oct 29, 2019

An unknown story of an unlikely hero--the US consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come.In 1929, Raymond Geist went to Berlin as a consul, and he handled visas for emigrants to the US. Geist expedited the exit of Albert Einstein just before Hitler came to power. Once the Nazis began to oppress Jews and others, Geist's role became vitally important. It was Geist who extricated Sigmund Freud from Vienna and Geist who understood the scale and urgency of the humanitarian crisis.Even while hiding his ... + Read More
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Series: Wild Game My Mother, Her Lover, and Me Hardcover Adrienne Brodeur 9781328519030 $39.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 15, 2019

A daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words that would set the course of both of their lives for years to come:Ben Souther just kissed me. Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, blossoming in the sudden light of her attention, and from then on, Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would ... + Read More
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Series: Desk 88 Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America Hardcover Sherrod Brown 9780374138219 $38.00 HISTORY Nov 05, 2019

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. InDesk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to the creation of a more just America. They range from Hugo Black, who helped to lift millions of American workers out of poverty, to Robert F. Kennedy, whose eyes were opened by an undernourished Mississippi child and who then spent the rest of his lif... + Read More
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Series: The Open Heart Club A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery Hardcover Gabriel Brownstein 9781610399494 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 22, 2019

This history of the heart and cardiac medicine--as told by a writer with a congenital heart defect--ponders issues of mortality, empathy, and the things that make us human. Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave after wave of medical innovation, a series of interventions that have kept his heart beating.The Open Heart Club ... + Read More
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Series: Race of Aces WWII's Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Masters of the Sky Hardcover John R Bruning 9780316508629 $37.00 HISTORY Jan 14, 2020

The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot. In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the first U.S. fighter pilot to break his record of twenty-six enemy planes shot down. Seizing on the challenge to motivate his men, General George Kenney promoted what they would come to call the "race of aces" as a way of boosting the spirits of his war-weary command. What developed ... + Read More
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Series: Toil & Trouble A Memoir Hardcover Augusten Burroughs 9781250019950 $34.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2019

From the number oneNew York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky."Here’s a partial list of things I don’t believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires. Zombies. Reiki. Homeopathy. Rolfing. Reflexology. Note that 'witches' and 'witchcraft' are absent from this list. The thing is, I wouldn’t believe in them, and I would privately ridicule any idiot who did, except for one thing: Iam a witch." For as long as Augusten B... + Read More
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Series: Molly The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats Hardcover Colin Butcher 9781250204776 $36.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 08, 2019

Molly:The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats tells the heartwarming story of the man-and-dog team behind the United Kingdom Pet Detective Agency—how Colin, in need of a new lease on life, rescues Molly the dog, and how Molly in turn rescues many more beloved lost pets.As a veteran of the Royal Navy and longtime police officer, Colin Butcher was no stranger to dangerous situations. But a career in uniform can wear anyone down, so, in 2003, Colin left the force to start his own private detective agency, specializing in helping reunite... + Read More
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Series: Queen Meryl The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep Hardcover Erin Carlson 9780316485272 $30.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 24, 2019

A captivating and inspiring portrait of legendary actress Meryl Streep and her work, Queen Meryl explores the fearless icon's trailblazing roles in film, her feminist activism, and the indelible mark she's left on pop culture.Meryl Streep is the most celebrated actress of our time. She's a chameleon who disappears fully into each character she plays. She never tackles the same role twice. Instead, she leverages her rarified platform to channel a range of dynamic, complicated women--Joanna Kramer, Karen Silkwood, Julia Child, Margaret Thatcher, ... + Read More
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Series: The Cartiers The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire Hardcover Francesca Cartier Brickell 9780525621614 $47.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 26, 2019

The captivating story of the family behind Cartier, and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives.The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to the... + Read More
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Series: Citizen 865 The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America Hardcover Debbie Cenziper 9780316449656 $35.00 HISTORY Nov 12, 2019

The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever seen. The long-forgotten document, containing more than 700 names, helped unravel the details behind the most lethal killing operation in World War Two. In the tiny Polish village of Traw... + Read More
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Series: Revolutionary Brothers Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations Hardcover Tom Chaffin 9781250113726 $39.99 HISTORY Nov 26, 2019

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions—and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state’s governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more diff... + Read More
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Series: Franchise The Golden Arches in Black America Hardcover Marcia Chatelain 9781631493942 $38.95 HISTORY Jan 07, 2020

From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald’s have long symbolized capitalism’s villainous effects on our nation’s most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of c... + Read More
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Series: The Third Rainbow Girl The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia Hardcover Emma Copley Eisenberg 9780316449236 $34.00 TRUE CRIME Jan 21, 2020

A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never arrived; they traveled with a third woman however, who lived. For thirteen years, no one was prosecuted for the "Rainbow Murders," though deep s... + Read More
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Series: Tombstone The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride From Hell Hardcover Tom Clavin 9781250214584 $39.99 HISTORY Apr 21, 2020

The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author ofDodge City andWild Bill.On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others.The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of Mexico and selling the livestock they stole to corrupt r... + Read More
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Series: MiG Alley The US Air Force in Korea, 1950-53 Hardcover Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 9781472836083 $39.99 HISTORY Nov 26, 2019

Titled after the wartime nickname for the part of North Korea that was the epicenter of a bitter struggle for air superiority over the Korean Peninsula,MiG Alley offers an in-depth analysis of the US Air Force's war in Korea, packed with interesting and exciting personal stories based on first-person testimony from both American and Soviet sources.Of the many myths that emerged following the end of the Korean War, the prevailing one in the West was that of the absolute supremacy of US Air Force pilots and aircraft over their Soviet-supplied opp... + Read More
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Series: Saving America's Cities Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age Hardcover Lizabeth Cohen 9780374254087 $47.50 HISTORY Oct 01, 2019

The story of the postwar American city as refracted through the life and career of the urban planner Edward J. LogueIn twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good.It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban s... + Read More
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Series: Jefferson's White House Monticello on the Potomac Hardcover James B. Conroy 9781538108468 $35.00 HISTORY Oct 15, 2019

As the first president to occupy the White House for an entire term, Thomas Jefferson shaped the president’s residence, literally and figuratively, more than any of its other occupants. Remarkably enough, however, though many books have immortalized Jefferson’s Monticello, none has been devoted to the vibrant look, feel, and energy of his still more famous and consequential home from 1801 to 1809. In Monticello on the Potomac, James B. Conroy, author of the award-winning Lincoln’s White House offers a vivid, highly readable account of how life ... + Read More
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Series: This We'll Defend A Noncombat Veteran on War and Its Aftermath Paperback Paul Crenshaw 9781469651071 $24.95 HISTORY Sep 16, 2019

In June 1990, Paul Crenshaw shipped out for basic training for the National Guard. By August, Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait. Each day brought more news of mobilizing forces. For weeks, Crenshaw was told he was going to war, but after graduation, he went back home to Arkansas and watched CNN every night, lying about how much he wished he had been deployed.Later, after Crenshaw had gotten out of the army, he began to question the reasons for the wars we fight. The essays here follow his time in the service, from Basic Training to weekend Nati... + Read More
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Series: Five Days Gone The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child Hardcover Laura Cumming 9781501198717 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 27, 2019

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated through her own family and her art for decades.In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’s mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England. There were no screams when she was taken, suggesting the culprit was someone familiar to her, and when she tu... + Read More
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Series: The Anarchy The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Hardcover William Dalrymple 9781635573954 $47.50 HISTORY Sep 10, 2019

From the bestsellingauthor ofReturn of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army.The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corp... + Read More
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Series: The Greatest Fury The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America Hardcover William C Davis 9780399585227 $42.00 HISTORY Oct 15, 2019

From master historian William C. Davis, the definitive story of the Battle of New Orleans, the fight that decided the fate not only of the War of 1812, but of the fledgling American Republic.It was the battle that could not be won. Outnumbered farmers, merchants, backwoodsmen, pirates, slaves, and Choctaw Indians, many of them unarmed, up against the cream of the British army, professional soldiers who had defeated the great Napolean and set Washington D.C. ablaze. At stake was nothing less than the vast American heartland from the Gulf coast t... + Read More
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Series: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION For Your Consideration: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Paperback Tres Dean 9781683691495 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 15, 2019

There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the awesomeness of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. This illustrated collection of humorous essays and fun extras makes the case for one of our most iconic celebrities, from the wrestling mat to the silver screen.Sporting a proverbial perfect Rotten Tomatoes score of 100%, Certified Fresh, The Rock embodies everything we want from our Hollywood superstars…and everything we admire in those who so boldly pursue the American Dream. But how did it all happen? How did a loathed professional wrestler b... + Read More
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Series: Tehran Children A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey Hardcover Mikhal Dekel 9781324001034 $36.95 HISTORY Oct 08, 2019

Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story—the extraordinary saga of two-thirds of Polish Jewish survivors—has never been fully told.Author Mikhal Dekel’s father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during whic... + Read More
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Series: A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves One Family and Migration in the 21st Century Hardcover Jason DeParle 9780670785926 $37.00 HISTORY Aug 20, 2019

“A remarkable book…indispensable.”—The Boston Globe“A sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration…DeParle’s understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced.”—The New York Times“This is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level…One of the best books on immigration written in a generation.”—Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedThe definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Pri... + Read More
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Series: My Meteorite Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing Paperback Harry Dodge 9780143134367 $24.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 17, 2020

An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully knowIs love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter, the nature of consciousnes... + Read More
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Series: A Year Without a Name A Memoir Hardcover Cyrus Grace Dunham 9780316444965 $33.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 15, 2019

"Cyrus Grace Dunham has written a classic memoir--passionate and clear eyed and unputdownable. Bravo to this extraordinary new voice." --Mary KarrFor as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations--lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman--until their profound sense of alienation became intolerable.Beginning as Grace and ending as Cyrus, Dunham brings us inside the chrysalis of gender transition, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilaratin... + Read More
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Series: The Shadow of Vesuvius A Life of Pliny Hardcover Daisy Dunn 9781631496394 $39.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Dec 10, 2019

“A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the y... + Read More
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Series: Where Do I Begin? Stories from a Life Lived Out Loud Hardcover Elvis Duran 9781982106331 $35.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2019

Elvis Duran, host of one of the nation’s top morning shows and the voice millions of Americans wake up to, shares his wildest stories and hardest-learned lessons all with his trademark heart, honesty, and plenty of humor. Elvis Duran’s nationally syndicated radio program, Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, is America’s most-listened-to Top 40 morning show and one of the 10 most-listened-to programs in all of radio, heard live by nearly ten million people every morning. But his success didn’t happen overnight. Elvis spent years navigating the wi... + Read More
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Series: A Pilgrimage to Eternity From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith Hardcover Timothy Egan 9780735225237 $37.00 HISTORY Oct 15, 2019

Tracing an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and “virtuosic” (The Wall Street Journal) writer explores the past and future of Christianity“What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan’s case, both.”—Cokie RobertsMoved by his mother’s death and his Irish Catholic family’s complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the f... + Read More
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Series: Crucible The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 Hardcover Charles Emmerson 9781610397827 $44.00 HISTORY Oct 15, 2019

A bold, revisionist account of World War I's lingering end, the bloody years that followed, and the Western world's reeling transformation.In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to make his triumphal entry into the capital. A former German army fieldrunner trained to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. In Paris an American reporter in search of himself writes ever shorter sentences.Lenin and Hitler, Albert Einstein and Erne... + Read More
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Series: According to Kate The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday Hardcover Chris Enss 9781493037735 $31.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 01, 2019

Doc Holliday’s paramour Big Nose Kate could never get a publisher to give her the big bucks she demanded to tell the story of her life, but that didn’t mean she didn’t collect material she wanted to use in a biography. Over the fifty years Mary Kate Cummings, alias Big Nose Kate, traversed the West she saved letters from her family, musings she had written about her love interests, and life with the notorious John Henry Holliday. Using rare, never before published material Big Nose Kate stock-piled in anticipation of writing the tale of her day... + Read More
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Series: Alexander the Great His Life and His Mysterious Death Hardcover Anthony Everitt 9780425286524 $40.00 HISTORY Aug 27, 2019

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial portrait.More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that meant something different to every age: in the... + Read More