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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking

by Brendan I. Koerner

Published: 2013-06-18

Hardcover: 318 pages

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In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hij...

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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code

by Margalit Fox

Published: 2013-05-14

Hardcover: 384 pages

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In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When fam...

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Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

by Artemis Cooper

Published: 2013-10-15

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Patrick Leigh Fermor’s enviably colorful life took off when in 1934, at the age of eighteen, he decided to walk across Europe. In just over a year he had trekked through nine countries and taught himself three languages, and his enthusiasm and curiosity for every kind of experience made ...

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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance

by Carla Kaplan

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 544 pages

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Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Renaissance insiders. The 1920s in New York City was a time of freedom, experimentation, an...

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Men We Reaped: A Memoir

by Jesmyn Ward

Published: 2013-09-17

Hardcover: 272 pages

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“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.” —Harriet TubmanIn five years, Jesmyn Ward lo...

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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

by Megan Marshall

Published: 2013-03-12

Hardcover: 496 pages

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From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England’s intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women’s sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now, Megan ...

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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

by Mary Ruefle

Published: 2012-08-14

Paperback: 352 pages

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This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... ?New York Times Book ReviewNo writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act?the fact that poetry must both...

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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

by Scott Anderson

Published: 2013-08-06

Hardcover: 592 pages

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A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East       The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, �...

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Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death

by Katy Butler

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 322 pages

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In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way.Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and ...

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Jonathan Swift

by Leo Damrosch

Published: 2013-11-12

Hardcover: 592 pages

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Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, ...