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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
by Ben Macintyre
Amazon readers say:
"Just shows once again how truth can be even more interesting than most fiction." "One of the top non-fiction books, ever!" "Agent zigzag." "Me..Reading wwiI history... It can't be! (but it's great!)."
384 page hardcover
|$17.13
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Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
by Hugh Brogan
736 page hardcover
|$23.10
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Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
by Stacy A. Cordery
608 page hardcover
|$21.75
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
by Joseph J. Ellis
304 page hardcover
|$17.79
|52 reviews
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The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics
by Matt Bai
336 page hardcover
|$17.13
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Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
by Richard Rhodes
400 page hardcover
|$19.11
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
by Francisco Goldman
416 page hardcover
|$16.50
|14 reviews
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Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
288 page hardcover
|$16.29
|19 reviews
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Circling My Mother: A Memoir
by Mary Gordon
272 page hardcover
|$16.32
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Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire
by Judith Thurman
448 page hardcover
|$16.30
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
by Clive James
768 page hardcover
|$21.00
|34 reviews
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
by Rick Atkinson
816 page hardcover
|$23.10
|82 reviews
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The Diana Chronicles
by Tina Brown
542 page hardcover
|$18.15
|122 reviews
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War
by Graham Robb
352 page hardcover
|$18.45
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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
by Rosemary Mahoney
288 page hardcover
|$16.31
|22 reviews
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by Jean Pfaelzer
432 page hardcover
|$18.45
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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
by John Updike
736 page hardcover
|$26.40
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Easter Everywhere: A Memoir
by Darcey Steinke
240 page hardcover
|$16.47
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Edith Wharton
by Hermione Lee
880 page hardcover
|$23.10
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The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam
by Tom Bissell
432 page hardcover
|$16.50
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The Florist's Daughter
by Patricia Hampl
240 page hardcover
|$16.32
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Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir
by Shalom Auslander
320 page hardcover
|$16.47
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Gomorrah
by Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss
320 page hardcover
|$16.50
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The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
by Wilfrid Sheed
368 page hardcover
|$19.77
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How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman
320 page hardcover
|$15.60
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How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
by James L. Kugel
848 page hardcover
|$23.10
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
208 page hardcover
|$11.61
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Amazon readers say:
"Eye opening narrative of the Iraqi experience." "A hard-hitting view of a very different kind of Iraq experience." "Imperial life of the Bush drones." "An astonishing piece of work."
384 page paperback
|$10.17
|151 reviews
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The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
by Helen Epstein
352 page hardcover
|$17.16
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
702 page hardcover
|$18.45
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Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
by Steven Bach
400 page hardcover
|$19.80
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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
by John Richardson
608 page hardcover
|$26.40
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Amazon readers say:
"One of the 10 best of 2007." "A door to the not-too-distant past." "A time capsule of place and time." "Tears of joy in re-living days gone by."
304 page paperback
|$9.60
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Amazon says:
Wars are now fought now by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
In "A Long Way Gone," Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.
240 page hardcover
|$14.96
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
by Jeffrey Toobin
Amazon says:
Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the most important and secret legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land.
Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine tells the story of the Court through personalities -- from Anthony Kennedy's overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas's well-tended grievances against his critics to David Souter's odd nineteenth-century lifestyle. There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore and Sandra Day O'Connor's fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president she helped place in office.
384 page hardcover
|$18.45
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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
by Linda Colley
Amazon says:
This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. A creature of multiple frontiers, she spent time in London, Menorca, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Africa. She speculated in Florida land, was caught up in the French and Indian War, linked to voyages to the Pacific, and enmeshed as victim or owner in three different systems of slavery.
In this dazzling and original book, Linda Colley moves repeatedly and questioningly between vast geopolitical transformations and the intricate detail of individual lives. This is a global biography for our globalizing times.
400 page hardcover
|$21.56
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Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
by Joan Breton Connelly
456 page hardcover
|$29.70
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Ralph Ellison: A Biography
by Arnold Rampersad
672 page hardcover
|$25.55
|11 reviews
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