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The Forever War
by Dexter Filkins
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 2 Jun 2009
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| From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. |
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
by Stacey O'Brien
Hardcover: Aug 2008
Paperback: 2 Jun 2009
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| When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing, she knew he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild, so gave him a permanent home living with her. This is the funny, poignant story of their two decades together. |
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: 5 May 2009
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| The Man Who Loved Chinatells the sweeping story of China through the remarkable life of Joseph Needham's , a brilliant Cambridge scientist . Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself great—related by one of the world's inimitable storytellers. |
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: 30 Apr 2009
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| Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency–and America itself. |
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 28 Apr 2009
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| "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. |
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 6 Apr 2009
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| Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. |
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A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
by E. Benjamin Skinner
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 24 Mar 2009
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| To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard. |
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 13 Jan 2009
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| In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. |
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