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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

by Sarah Helm

Published: 2015-03-31

Hardcover: 768 pages

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A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women  On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women—housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes—was marched through t...

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The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

by Phyllis Lee Levin

Published: 2015-01-06

Hardcover: 544 pages

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A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams’s destiny was foreordained. He was not only “The Greatest Traveler of His Age,” but his country’s most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy’s world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and ...

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Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University That Changed America

by Rex Bowman, Carlos Santos

Published: 2013-08-13

Hardcover: 200 pages

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Thomas Jefferson had a radical dream for higher education. Designed to become the first modern public university, the University of Virginia was envisioned as a liberal campus with no religious affiliation, with elective courses and student self-government. Nearly two centuries after the u...

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Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution

by Giles Milton

Published: 2014-04-29

Hardcover: 400 pages

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In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II--a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that would...

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 464 pages

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New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history...

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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World

by Jennifer Potter

Published: 2015-03-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle but powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have...

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Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

by Peter Brown

Published: 2012-09-02

Hardcover: 792 pages

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Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing prob...

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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood

by William J. Mann

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 480 pages

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New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award finalist for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the...

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The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies

by David La Vere

Published: 2013-10-21

Hardcover: 272 pages

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At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the following days, they destroyed hundreds o...

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When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington

by Peter Snow

Published: 2014-08-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world’s greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal st...