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The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
by Liaquat Ahamed
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by Hernan Diaz
Published May 2023
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by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Published Apr 2023
Read ReviewsA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
by John Butman, Simon Targett
Published Mar 2018
Read ReviewsThree generations of English merchant adventurers--not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed--were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive.
by Ethan Canin
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsA stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young mans life.
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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