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The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

by Jane Ridley

Published: 2013-12-03

Hardcover: 752 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKThis richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen. Granted unprecedented access to ...

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The Faraway Nearby

by Rebecca Solnit

Published: 2013-06-13

Hardcover: 272 pages

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This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is a fitting companion to her beloved A Field Guide for Getting Lost In this exquisitely written new book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our...

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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

by Jung Chang

Published: 2013-10-29

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A New York Times Notable BookEmpress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the ...

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Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 (American History)

by Brenda Wineapple

Published: 2013-08-06

Hardcover: 736 pages

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Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. With a canvas of extraordinary characters, such a...

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

Published: 2013-09-17

Hardcover: 656 pages

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The New Yorker ?Excellent... hair-raising... Command and Control is how nonfiction should be written.” (Louis Menand) Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking account of accid...

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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

by Max Hastings

Published: 2013-09-24

Hardcover: 672 pages

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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max...

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The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery

by George Johnson

Published: 2013-08-27

Hardcover: 304 pages

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When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an ex...

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The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood

by Roger Rosenblatt

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The Washington Post hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as "a textbook on what constitutes perfect writing," and People lauded Kayak Morning as "intimate, expansive and profoundly moving." Classic tales of love and grief, the New York Times bestselling memoirs are also original literary...

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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

by Gary J. Bass

Published: 2013-09-24

Hardcover: 528 pages

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A riveting history—the first full account—of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world today....

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The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund

by Anita Raghavan

Published: 2013-06-04

Hardcover: 512 pages

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Just as WASPs, Irish-Catholics and Our Crowd Jews once made the ascent from immigrants to powerbrokers, it is now the Indian-American's turn. Citigroup, PepsiCo and Mastercard are just a handful of the Fortune 500 companies led by a group known as the "Twice Blessed." Yet little is known a...