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Lily Prellezo
Seagull One

This book tells the modern-day adventure story of Brothers to the Rescue and the Cuban refugees they flew to safety, written in collaboration with the group's founder, José Basulto.

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Iain Macgregor
The Hiroshima Men

An epic, riveting history based on new interviews and research that elucidates the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the Jap…

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Kornel Chang
A Fractured Liberation

After liberation in 1945, Koreans erupted with hopes for reform that had been bottled up during forty years of Japanese imperial rule. Arguing that permanent North-South division was far from inevitable, …

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Molly Pucci
Marxism and the Interpretation of Dreams

This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party. Rather than telling a story rooted in later divisions between…

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Jessie Swigger
Please Touch

The Innovation and influence of the first children's museums in the USWhen it opened in 1899, the Brooklyn Children's Museum greeted visitors with a new experience. Rather than carefully ensconcing artifa…

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Robert Schmuhl
Mr. Churchill in the White House

Scores of biographies have been written about Winston Churchill, yet none examine his frequent, sometimes furtive, trips to the White House, where he resided for weeks on end. These extended visits during…

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The Young Lords Speak

Rooted in a Chicago-based street gang, the Young Lords grew into one of the most dynamic revolutionary community organizations of the late 1960s and early '70s.In their field jackets and signature purple …

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Larry Mcshane
Little Vic and the Great Mafia War

"The shocking true story of Victor "Little Vic" Orena, the rising Mob boss who fought to control the Colombo crime family--and triggered the bloodiest Mafia war of our times."--Inside …

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Mike Brown
The Day Peace Broke Out

At 3 p.m. on 8 May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a long-awaited speech in which he officially declared the war in Europe to be over. After six bitter years of conflict, however, perceptions …

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Seth Long
The Last Mixtape

"A reflection on the evolution of physical media into metaphor, through the history of music curation. Obsolescence makes the heart grow fonder, at least in the case of the mixtape. Not all technolog…

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Jessie Swigger
Please Touch

The Innovation and influence of the first children's museums in the USWhen it opened in 1899, the Brooklyn Children's Museum greeted visitors with a new experience. Rather than carefully ensconcing artifa…

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Kirk Ellis
They Kill People

A deep dive into the grit and glamor of America's favorite criminal couple and the nation's love affair with guns.On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and Bonnie…

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Evelyn Sterne
The House of David

Beset by scandals from its earliest days, the House of David defied the odds to become one of the longest-lasting intentional communities in United States history. Drawing upon an extensive archive of pri…

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Chris Enss
Meet the Kellys

Gangsters. Lovers. Legends. Meet the Kellys---the bootlegging, bank-robbing, husband-wife duo known as "Machine Gun" Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne---who masterminded one of the most infamous kidnappi…

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Myrna Perez
Criticizing Science

How Stephen Jay Gould's career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy.

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Urszula Idziak-Smoczynska
Wittgenstein in Polish Galicia

A deeply researched account of Wittgenstein's wartime experiences and reading during 1914 and 1917 that reveals numerous previously unknown yet vital details about his work on the Tractatus Logico-Philoso…

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Haley Cohen Gilliland
A Flower Traveled in My Blood

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 • THE WASHINGTON POST 'S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 • THE ATLANTIC 'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2…

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Adam Mestyan
Modern Arab Kingship

How the "recycling" of the Ottoman Empire's uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab …

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Robert Kershaw
Dünkirchen 1940

'Kershaw's book is a welcome rebalancing; a thoughtful, well-researched and well-written contribution to a narrative that has long been too one-sided and too mired in national mythology.' The TimesThe Bri…

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Blake Fontenay
Saving Stuart, Florida

It was a common story in the 1980s: downtowns were dying.Stuart was right there with the ill-fated. Businesses had largely abandoned Stuart's historic buildings, leaving the streets deserted. The St. Luci…

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