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Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
by Dan Baum
Paperback: 16 Feb 2010
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| Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms. |
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
by Christopher Potter
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 1 Feb 2010
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| You Are Here is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today's most cutting-edge scientific thinking. |
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It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir
by Emma Williams
Paperback: 8 Dec 2009
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| A deeply affecting memoir and a unique contribution to our understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. |
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
by Daniel L. Everett
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: 3 Nov 2009
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| A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil. |
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
by Howard Blum
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 6 Oct 2009
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| Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can’t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. |
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Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours
by Tom Shachtman
Hardcover: 15 Sep 2009
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| This is the long-hidden saga of how a handful of Americans and Kenyans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to "airlift" to U.S. universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change the world. |
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
by Jennet Conant
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 15 Sep 2009
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| An extraordinary tale of deceit, double-dealing, and moral ambiguity - an insider's view of the counterintelligence game played by the British in Washington during the early days of World War II. |
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 8 Sep 2009
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| This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family whose close blood ties to our President Jefferson had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. |
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