Acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann sets out to solve œthe greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?
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The Enemy Within
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John Demos
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A fascinating cultural history of witch hunts, from their roots in the persecution of the early Christians and the œwitch-craze of the Middle Ages to the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Red Scare.
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Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life
Published during WWII to amuse and distract Britons during the nightly black-outs, this delightful miscellany-featuring games, puzzles, jokes and literary snippets-sheds fascinating light on the British homefront.
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Abigail & John
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Edith Gelles
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Using a wealth of information and excerpts from their extensive correspondence, this first double biography of John and Abigail Adams views the birth of America through the lens of this extraordinary couple.
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Newton and the Counterfeiter
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Thomas Levenson
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Isaac Newton's little-known second career as Warden of the Royal Mint, where he became the œ17th-century version of a big-city cop, tracking down counterfeiters, including master counterfeiter William Chaloner.
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The Other Side of the Night
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Daniel Allen Butler
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This exquisitely researched account of the night the Titanic sank focuses on the captains aboard two other ships-both knew the vessel was in trouble, and both could have helped the doomed passengers.
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The Pacific(sm)
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Hugh Ambrose
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In this companion to the HBO® miniseries, The Pacific(sm), Hugh Ambrose takes us from Bataan to Guadalcanal to Okinawa, to reveal the intertwined odysseys of four Marines and a Navy carrier pilot during World War II.
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The Anti-Communist Manifestos
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John Fleming
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Probing examination of four books that altered history: Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon (1940); Jan Valtin's Out of the Night (1941); Victor Kravchenko's I Chose Freedom (1946); and Whittaker Chambers' Witness (1952).
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The Sisters of Sinai
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Janet Soskice
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In 1892, identical twin sisters from Scotland discovered one of the earliest known copies of the Gospels. Here is the story of how two women without university degrees uncovered and translated this watershed text.
