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How Italian Food Conquered the World

Palgrave Macmillan
Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man’s gruel—little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows...
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Sweet Tooth
The Bittersweet History of Candy

St. Martin's Press
A cultural history of candy—how it evolved from medicine and a luxury to today's Kit Kat bars and M&M'sTold through the Kate Hopkins' travels in Europe and the...
  
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The Shah

Palgrave Macmillan
Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social...
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George VI

I.B. Tauris
Despite his struggle with a crippling shyness and sense of inadequacy, exacerbated by the stammer that was the focus of the Oscar-winning film The King’s...
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Battleground Pacific
A Marine Rifleman's Combat Odyssey in K/3/5

St. Martin's Press
A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WWII’S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary “K-3-5” (for Company K, 3rd Battalion,...
  
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Here Lies Hugh Glass
A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation

Hill and Wang
In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass’s fellows rushed to his aid...
  
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From Splendor to Revolution
The Romanov Women, 1847--1928

St. Martin's Griffin
This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of...
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SEAL Team Six
Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper

St. Martin's Griffin
When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes...
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Castro's Secrets
The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine

Palgrave Macmillan
In CASTRO'S SECRETS, highly acclaimed author and intelligence expert Brian Latell offers a strikingly original view of Fidel Castro in his role as Cuba's...
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The Elizabethans

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation, and political expansion, the Elizabethan age was also more remarkable than any other for the Technicolor...
  

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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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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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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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Hell Above Earth
The Incredible True Story of an American WWII Bomber Commander and the Copilot Ordered to Kill Him

St. Martin's Press
“The riveting true story of a World War II bomber pilot and the co-pilot who received orders to kill him…After the twists and turns in Goering's many missions,...
  
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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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A Magnificent Obsession
Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy

St. Martin's Press
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage...
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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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Gideon's Spies
The Secret History of the Mossad

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
THE SIXTH EDITION OF THE COMPELLING AND CONTROVERSIAL HISTORY OF ISRAEL’S SECRET INTELLIGENCE AGENCY In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no...
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Midnight Rising
John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

Henry Holt and Co.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Bestselling author Tony...
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The Story of English in 100 Words

St. Martin's Press
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In The...
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Blackhorse Riders
A Desperate Last Stand, an Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot

St. Martin's Press
This is the incredible true story of a brave military unit in Vietnam that risked everything to rescue an outnumbered troop under heavy fire—and the...
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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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Empire of Shadows
The Epic Story of Yellowstone

St. Martin's Press
“George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet’s most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you’ll never think of our...