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Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists win control over a...

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Combining a Hitchcockian sensibility with wickedly dark humor, Virginia Feito, a brilliantly tale...

In this magisterial volume, Harvey Sachs, author of the highly acclaimed biography Toscanini, tak...

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Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War ...

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In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson-whose renditions of Hom...

The Second Emancipation recasts the liberation of post-Second World War colonial Africa and the A...

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The racers-an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several ri...

Dispelling the persistent narrative that abject poverty followed the end of slavery in New York C...

From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait of Ronald Reagan, the actor-...

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