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God, War, and Providence

The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England

by James A. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused...
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12 Strong

The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

by Doug Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009

“A thrilling action ride of a book” (The New York Times Book Review)—from Jerry Bruckheimer in theaters everywhere January 19, 2018—the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11. Previously...
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by Ruth Rendell
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL’S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS From crime legend Ruth Rendell, a psychologically intriguing novel about an old murder that sends shockwaves across a group of astonishingly carnal and appetiteful elderly friends: “Refined, probing, and intelligent…never less...
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Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

by Kai Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER KAI BIRD’S fascinating memoir of his early years spent in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon provides an original and illuminating perspective into the Arab-Israeli conflict. Weeks before the Suez War of 1956, four-year-old Kai Bird, son of a garrulous,...
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True at First Light

A Fictional Memoir

by Ernest Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2002

Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into...
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Green Hills of Africa

The Hemingway Library Edition

by Ernest Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of Hemingway’s...
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The Odyssey of Echo Company

The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

by Doug Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

SELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers shares the powerful account of an American army platoon fighting for survival...
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Alys, Always

A Novel

by Harriet Lane
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

From the author of Her, a suspenseful, assured literary debut that explores the dark side of desire and ambition through one woman's unlikely entry into an elite world. Driving home to London one winter evening, Frances happens upon a car that has flipped onto its side. She comforts the dying...
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I Lost My Love in Baghdad

A Modern War Story

by Michael Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008

The “wrenching” (Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show) first book by acclaimed journalist Michael Hastings (1980-2013), whose unflinching Rolling Stone article “Runaway General” ended the military career of General Stanley A. McChrystal. At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived...
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Passion for Islam

Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience

by Caryle Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002

"Islam's revival is reshaping Egypt and other Arab countries in ways beyond violent politics. The yearning for personal solace, a just political system, indigenous lifestyles, and relevant theology all await satisfaction....Just as the Nile runs through Egypt for almost eight hundred miles, giving...
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War of the Bloods in My Veins

A Street Soldier's March Toward Redemption

by DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, Terrie M. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009

By turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this is a war story -- a war that rages out of control on the streets of the United States, claiming the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. In this memoir, complete with child soldiers, unspeakable violence, and eventual salvation, we witness...
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Mad Girl's Love Song

Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

by Andrew Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

A new biography of Sylvia Plath, a literary icon who continues to haunt, fascinate, and enthrall even now, fifty years after her death On February 25 , 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter—now one of the most famous...
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Bare Bones

A Novel

by Kathy Reichs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003

World-class forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs explores international endangered species trafficking in this electrifying new thriller that brings Temperance Brennan back to her home base in North Carolina where several sets of bones, both human and animal,...
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Grave Secrets

A Novel

by Kathy Reichs
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002

As fresh and shocking as today’s headlines, a bone-chilling new Tempe Brennan novel of international black marketeering in fetal tissue, decades old mass murder, and contemporary homicide from New York Times bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who is hailed by...
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