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Patricia Seed
Sails and Shadows

How the early Portuguese Empire facilitated the modern slave trade.The Portuguese conquered the challenges of sailing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean, extending their colonial empire along Africa's western…

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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James Owen
The Times Churchill

A must-read for anyone with an interest in history, politics, or the fascinating story and enduring legacy of an extraordinary figure: Winston Churchill.

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Elyse Graham
Book and Dagger

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency…

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Laurence Bergreen
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever …

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Linda Joan Smith
The Peach Thief

"Nuanced, richly atmospheric, and exquisitely written." ---Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This shimmering middle-grade debut set in 1850s Lancashire, England, explores longing, belonging, and t…

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Laurence Bergreen
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever …

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Jared Detter
Dreams and Curses

This is a fiction book about a newlywed couple who move into their first home in the UK. The husband, Justus, finds a fascinating book in the library that pulls him into a world of waking dreams that seem…

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Elizabeth May
The Falconer

Heiress. Debutant. Murderer. A new generation of heroines has arrived.

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Myungji Yang
Reactionary Politics in South Korea

In December 2024, South Korean president Yoon Seok-yeol stunned the world by declaring martial law. More puzzling was that Yoon's insurrection unexpectedly gained substantial support from the ruling right…

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

"A series of essays on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism"-- Provided by publisher.

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Ulises Bonifacio Zarazúa Villaseñor
Urban Imaginaries of Fear

This investigation seeks to understand how urban imaginaries of fear have led to segregation and fragmentation in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The distinct socio-economic spaces of Santa Cecilia and P…

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Marshall C Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Thomas E Patterson
American Populist

"Thomas Patterson's monumental biography of Huey P. Long covers his life from birth to death, the conditions of the nation and Louisiana during his life, his childhood and family environment, and his…

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Muharem Bazdulj
Byron and the Beauty

Byron and the Beauty is very loosely based on Byron's biography and takes place during two weeks of October 1809, during his visit to the Balkans. Besides being great love story, this is also a novel abou…

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Garth Nix
Newt's Emerald

Romance crackles in magical Regency London in this dazzling tale of a stolen jewel and the heroine who will do anything to retrieve it---even don a disguise and work with a high-handed-but-attractive stra…

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Justin C Key
The World Wasn't Ready for You

"The most profound terror is rooted in love---the terror of losing love, of love betrayed, of love in peril. Justin C. Key's work is a cold knife through a hot heart, a surgical blade unleashing gout…

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Dean L Anderson, Michael S Nassaney, Krysta Ryzewski
The Historical Archaeology of Michigan

This book explores the historical archaeology of the past four hundred years in Michigan, illustrating how the state's history reflects the broader American experience through themes of entrepreneurship, …

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Ross Perlin
Language City

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible his…

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Len Deighton
Billion-Dollar Brain

"This is a classic spy thriller of lethal computer-age intrigue and a maniac's private cold war, featuring the unnamed narrator from The IPCRESS File. He travels from the bone-freezing winter of Hels…

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