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Nixon's Darkest Secrets
The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President

Thomas Dunne Books
A veteran White House reporter reveals our 37th president was even more sinister and haunted than we knew. Richard Nixon left the White House in 1974 as our...
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The Godfather Effect
Changing Hollywood, America, and Me

Thomas Dunne Books
A brilliant examination of our forty year obsession with the classic film trilogy—and a personal  reflection on what it means to be Italian-American  Forty...
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Five Days That Shocked the World
Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II

Thomas Dunne Books
In the momentous days from April 28 to May 2, 1945, the world witnessed the death of two Fascist dictators and the fall of Berlin. Mussolini’s capture and...
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Alix and Nicky
The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina

St. Martin's Press
The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that...
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Liberation Square
Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation

St. Martin's Press
A definitive, absorbing account of the Egyptian revolution, written by a Cairo-based Egyptian-American reporter for Foreign Policy and The Times (London), who...
  
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Betrayal
Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought to Bring Him Down

Forge Books
The Jack Nicholson film The Departed didn’t tell half of their story. A poor kid from the slums, Robert Fitzpatrick grew up to become a stellar FBI agent and...
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Katherine the Queen
The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII

St. Martin's Griffin
The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed...
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Operation Sea Lion
Hitler's Plot to Invade England

Tauris Parke Paperbacks
On July sixteenth, 1940, Hitler issued Directive No. 16, setting in motion Operation Sea Lion—his plan to invade England. The success of Operation Sea Lion...
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Albert
A Life

I.B. Tauris
Albert, prince consort to Queen Victoria and social and cultural visionary in his own right, defined the culture and direction of nineteenth century Britain—a...
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Gender and Nation Building in the Middle East
The Political Economy of Health from Mandate Palestine to Refugee Camps in Jordan
Library of Modern Middle East Studies

Tauris Academic Studies
From Mandate Palestine to refugee camps in Jordan today, generations of Palestinians have been affected by the reach of the state into their everyday lives....

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Night

Hill and Wang
A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of...
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Picador
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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All But My Life
A Memoir

Hill and Wang
A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein’s celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman’s three frightful years as a...
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They Fought for Each Other
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq

St. Martin's Griffin
Based on "Blood Brothers," the award-nominated series that ran in Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit that sacrificed their...
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Voices from Chernobyl
The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Picador
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated...
  
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Picador
"An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey,...
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A Rumor of War

Holt Paperbacks
The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...
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Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America’s...
  
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A Night to Remember

Holt Paperbacks
The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First...
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An Army at Dawn
The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

Holt Paperbacks
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war...
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The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century

Picador
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction...
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The Peasant Prince
Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence...
  
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The Shah

Palgrave Macmillan
Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, the life of Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, continues to resonate today. Here,...
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The Day of Battle
The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

Holt Paperbacks
“A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.”—The New York Times In...