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"A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland...
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TLS
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From the bestselling author of Jews Don’t Count ‘ A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ’ ALAIN DE BOTTON ‘ Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare … another one-sitting wonder’ STEPHEN FRY David Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately...
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David Slaton novel volume 8
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Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"With the help of CIA operative David Slaton, America has shaken off a series of high-tech attacks. Then, just as the threat seems to have receded, the most brazen strike of all: Marine One is brought down in the heart of the capital. The president survives the crash, but is clinging to life by a thread. Once again, Slaton gets the call. With limitless backing from the CIA, the agency's most lethal assassin is dispatched halfway around the world....
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Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path."--Provided by Publisher.
"Dylan Jones’s engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The definitive biography of enigmatic golfer, commentator, and performer David Feherty—one of the most universally beloved figures in the game. John Feinstein, who has spent four decades finding intriguing sports characters and narratives and turning them into classic books, chronicles the life and career of David Feherty. The two have known each other for years, beginning with Feinstein’s work on A Good Walk Spoiled, researched and written at...
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"A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book for May 2023 The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer. Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in the twilight years of the Gilded Age in New York as she tracks a killer. New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage....
8) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies. David Mamet went to Hollywood on top—a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived just in time to meet the luminaries of old Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants like Paul Newman,...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A thoughtful and illuminating bicycle journey along the Underground Railroad by a climate scientist seeking to engage with American history. The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight: a great church in Philadelphia; a humble old house backing up to the New Jersey Turnpike; an industrial outbuilding in Ohio. Over the course of four years, David Goodrich rode his bicycle 3,000 miles east of the Mississippi to travel the routes of the...
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Harpercollins Christian Pub
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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When your world is falling apart, where is God? Renowned pastor, teacher, and author David Jeremiah shares the comfort and hope of the Psalms, showing how these truths can guide you through life's greatest challenges. Bible teacher Dr. David Jeremiah welcomes all who are going through tough times to turn to the Psalms, which are full of inspiration and hope. Grounded in Scripture, Dr. Jeremiah includes true stories from people facing seemingly insurmountable...
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Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
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[2013]
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English
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A silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. It's all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. But some who come back are no longer human.
It's all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The first comprehensive account of David Koresh, the tragedy at Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America"--
"The first comprehensive account of David Koresh’s life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from a master of narrative nonfiction. No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76...
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Humanix Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"THE RADICAL MIND is both a stark warning and call to arms to protect the country from decline, ruin, and disgrace. It identifies the crisis facing the nation as a crisis of faith — faith in the Constitution that has shaped our destiny, faith in individual freedom and accountability, faith in the principle of equality before the law. At stake? Nothing less than the American way of life and the liberty and freedoms all Americans enjoy. In his...
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, a division of Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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"Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely...
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Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"A PASTE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIMEOUT NEW YORK'S BEST SUMMER BEACH READS OF 2017 The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria--a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity. Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite grew up in the 1960s in a devoutly Catholic, blue-collar, food-crazed...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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"Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and extraordinary on-the-ground reportage to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005 as only he can, examining the events that took place as the military was forced to reckon with...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country. After his father's passing in 2019, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensionsthat defined the complex relationship between him and his parents--a question that ultimately forced a reckoning with the expectations he encountered as the only son of Chinese immigrants and the realities...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010.
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Español
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"La fascinante historia de la última expedición en busca de El Dorado En 1925, el legendario explorador británico Percy Fawcett se adentró en la selva del Amazonas, en busca de una legendaria civilización situada en lo más profundo de la mortal jungla. Nunca regresó. En esta obra maestra de la no-ficción narrativa, el periodista David Grann nos cuenta la épica historia de la búsqueda de Fawcett de la “ciudad perdida de Z” en Perú,...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Inspired by the letters and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, this moving novel inhabits his life and mind"--
""A luscious novel . . . [Helen] Humphreys offers a fresh view of a philosopher thought of as a loner, depicting his family home as a place for communion and companionship . . . This is Thoreau as he really lived." — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak...
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