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  • THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY
    THE DEVIL REACHED TOWARD THE SKY
    GARRETT GRAFF
    On the eightieth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work is "oral history at its finest" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) delivers an epic narrative of the atomic bomb's creation and deployment, woven from the voices of hundreds of scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians.The building of the atomic bomb is the most audacious unde...
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  • A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES
    A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SIX PLAGUES
    EDNA BONHOMME
    A deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines—in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body.Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush pr...
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  • MEDIEVAL CATS
    MEDIEVAL CATS
    CATHERINE NAPPINGTON
    A hilarious celebration of cats in artwork from medieval times.Look what the cat dragged in from the Middle Ages—a curious compendium of cats unlike any you've ever lapped up before.For more than a millennium, a myriad of medieval manuscripts and artworks painted a picture of cats as playful and curious but also lazy, selfish, and vicious. Today, these masterpieces live on, shi...
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  • AN AFRICAN HISTORY OF AFRICA
    AN AFRICAN HISTORY OF AFRICA
    ZEINAB BADAWI
    Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi's sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent's extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective. "Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30 countries, it brings the dazzling civilizations of pre-colonial Africa vividly to life. A ...
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  • APOCALYPSE
    APOCALYPSE
    LIZZIE WADE
    "Lizzie Wade is an exceptional journalist and a master storyteller. She reminds us that survival always has been, and still is, possible, and that our world always has been, and still is, a choice." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World "This book upended my understanding of the ancient world. Wade renders our deep past in vivid prose, showing us that times of great rupture also...
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  • NO ROAD LEADING BACK
    NO ROAD LEADING BACK
    CHRIS HEATH
    This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the ...
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  • THE BOOK-MAKERS
    THE BOOK-MAKERS
    ADAM SMYTH
    "A celebration of 550 years of the printed book told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error"-...
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  • THE CLEOPATRAS
    THE CLEOPATRAS
    LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES
    The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history's most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic sto...
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  • ANCIENT EGYPT
    ANCIENT EGYPT
    NIGEL FLETCHER-JONES
    First appearing around the mighty River Nile in the fourth millennium BC, Ancient Egypt is one of the great wellsprings of human civilization. Egyptian culture developed around a complex system of religious rituals tied to the agricultural seasons, with the pharaoh a living deity at the centre. Mighty pyramids, tombs and monuments were built to celebrate the pharaohs, many of w...
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  • SAVING MICHELANGELO'S DOME
    SAVING MICHELANGELO'S DOME
    WAYNE KALAYJIAN
    In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter's Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revolution in the world of architecture.1742: the famous dome atop Saint Peter's Basilica, designed by Michelangelo, is fractured and threatened with collapse. The dome is the prid...
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  • NORMAL WOMEN
    NORMAL WOMEN
    PHILIPPA GREGORY
    "Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart." --Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets "Stunning. . ...
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  • CULTURE
    CULTURE
    MARTIN PUCHNER
    What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture, religion, and philosophy. This crucial passing down of knowledge has required the radical integration of in...
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  • THE INVENTION OF POWER
    THE INVENTION OF POWER
    BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA
    In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world? Western exceptionalism--the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent--is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of...
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  • CRIMES OF THE CENTURIES
    CRIMES OF THE CENTURIES
    AMBER HUNT
    When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New YorkTimes bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter thanit's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since theSalem Witch Trials in the seventeenth century. And these cases over the centuries havefundamentally changed our society and shi...
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  • WORLD WAR I ILLUSTRATED ATLAS
    WORLD WAR I ILLUSTRATED ATLAS
    PROFESSOR MICHAEL S NEIBERG
    World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of the Western Front where the fighting raged for nearly four and half years, but this was only part of what was truly a world war. It was a complex conflict fought in a number of theatres: an air war, a land war fought in the Balkans, Italy, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East, and also a naval war fought in the North Sea, Sou...
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  • PHARAOHS
    PHARAOHS
    DR PHYLLIS G JESTICE
    Ancient Egypt is one of the great wellsprings of human civilization, first developing around the city of Memphis on the Nile River in the fourth millennium BCE. Egyptian life was centred on a complex system of religious rituals, with the pharaoh (king) seen as a living god among the people. Mighty pyramids, tombs and monuments were built to celebrate the pharaohs, many of which...
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  • THE SIX
    THE SIX
    LOREN GRUSH
    In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots—a group then made up excl...
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  • SAVING FREUD
    SAVING FREUD
    NAGORSKI, ANDREW
    A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud's last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible.In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria and Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich. Anticipating these events, many Jews had fled Austria, but the most famous Austrian Jew remained in V...
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  • THE WORLD
    THE WORLD
    SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
    "Succession meets Game of Thrones." --The Spectator - "The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that both entertains and informs." -- The Economist, Best Books of the YearAround 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon ...
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  • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S LAST BET
    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S LAST BET
    MICHAEL MEYER
    The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States...
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  • KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW
    KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW
    SIMON WINCHESTER
    "A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world." -- New York Time...
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  • THE DARK QUEENS
    THE DARK QUEENS
    SHELLEY PUHAK
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003e"A well-researched and well-told epic history. u003ciu003eThe Dark Queensu003c/iu003e brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life."--Margot Lee Shetterly, u003ciu003eNew York Timesu003c/iu003e-bestselling author of u003ciu003eHidden Figuresu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eThe remarkabl...
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  • THE KNEELING MAN
    THE KNEELING MAN
    LETA MCCOLLOUGH SELETZKY
    The intimate and heartbreaking story of a Black undercover police officer who famously kneeled by the assassinated Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr—and a daughter's quest for the truth about her fatherIn the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood fro...
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  • THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER
    THE WATCHMAKER'S DAUGHTER
    LARRY LOFTIS
    u003cpu003eNew York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII--at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and live the rest of her life as a Christian mi...
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  • THE EARTH TRANSFORMED: AN UNTOLD HISTORY
    THE EARTH TRANSFORMED: AN UNTOLD HISTORY
    PETER FRANKOPAN
    Lost people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited and conserved the natural environment - and draws salutary conclusions about...
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  • BORDERLAND
    BORDERLAND
    ANNA REID
    "A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future."—Financial TimesUkraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world's energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the latest of...
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  • RUSSIA
    RUSSIA
    BRAITHWAITE, RODRIC
    A short and pithy introduction to the history of Russia as we know it today ...
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  • I SAW DEATH COMING
    I SAW DEATH COMING
    KIDADA E. WILLIAMS
    "Powerful and deeply moving."--Los Angeles Times * Shortlisted for the Museum of African American History's Stone Book AwardFrom a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the Reconstruction-era South, and what it cost.The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose...
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  • SWEAT
    SWEAT
    HAYES, BILL
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA u003ciu003eNew Yorkeru003c/iu003e Best Book of the yearu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eAn u003ciu003eEsquire u003c/iu003eBest Nonfiction Book of 2022u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eFrom u003ciu003eInsomniac Cityu003c/iu003e author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did" (u003ciu003eSF C...
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  • ANNE BOLEYN AND ELIZABETH I
    ANNE BOLEYN AND ELIZABETH I
    TRACY BORMAN
    Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, ElizabethMuch of the fascination with Britain's legendary Tudors centers around the dramas surrounding Henry VIII and his six wives and Elizabeth I's rumored liaisons. Yet the mos...
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