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Fenians and Ribbonmen
The Development of Republican Politics in East Tyrone, 1898-1918

Manchester University Press
East Tyrone sits at the crossroads of Irish politics. This book commences with the struggle between Belfast’s "Wee Joe" Devlin, the coming man of the Irish...
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All-American Murder

St. Martin's True Crime
Yeardley Love was a star athlete and student with her whole life ahead of her. Born into a world of privilege, Yeardley was exceptionally modest and...
  
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Lights Out!
Ten Myths About (and Real Solutions to) America's Energy Crisis

St. Martin's Griffin
In this timely book, former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham debunks the myths that warp our current debate over energy, and offers new solutions to the...
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Feynman

First Second
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents...
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The Beautiful and the Damned
A Portrait of the New India

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after...
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The Fall of the House of Walworth
A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America

St. Martin's Griffin
The Walworth family was the very symbol of virtue and distinction for decades, rising to prominence as part of the splendor of New York’s aristocracy. When...
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Love, Intimacy and Power
Marriage and patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850
Gender in History

Manchester University Press
Through an analysis of the correspondence of over one hundred couples from the Scottish elites across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this book...
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Counterstrike
The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda

Times Books
Inside the Pentagon's secretive and revolutionary new strategy to fight terrorism--and its game-changing effects in the Middle East and at home In the years...
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Troublemaker
Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again

St. Martin's Press
The 2010 candidate for Senate—and established political “troublemaker”*--voices the quiet anger in America today: where it comes from, what it’s asking for,...
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Death of an Empire
The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City

Thomas Dunne Books
Most readers know Salem only for the city’s notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America’s first...

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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago...
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Politics and Pasta
How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale

Thomas Dunne Books
An election is a war and "to the victor belongs the spoils." As I learned so well, that's the real democratic process. After all, you'll never see a...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced,...
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The World Is Flat 3.0
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Picador
A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly...
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Picador
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard...
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The Jersey Sting
A True Story of Crooked Pols, Money-Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys, and the Informant Who Brought It All Down

St. Martin's Press
In the summer of 2009 the blog Gawker stated “Everybody in New Jersey Was Arrested Yesterday.” Now for the first time, the real story behind the biggest...
  
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Prodigal Father, Pagan Son
Growing Up Inside the Dangerous World of the Pagans Motorcycle Club

Thomas Dunne Books
By the time he was thirteen, he already had attended thirteen funerals. Abandoned by his mother, and with his father, “Mangy” Menginie—president...
  
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The Good Soldiers

Picador
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE SLATE.COM THE BOSTON GLOBE THE KANSAS CITY STAR THE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND) THE...
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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers...
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A Need to Kill
Confessions of a Teen Murderer

St. Martin's True Crime
Alec Krieder knew his best friend’s family never locked their doors—making Kevin Haines and his family the perfect targets for a crime. One night, he waited...
  
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Washington Rules
America's Path to Permanent War
American Empire Project

Metropolitan Books
"Tough-minded, bracing, and intelligent . . . the country is lucky to have a fierce, smart peacemonger like Bacevich."—The New York Times Book Review Hailed...
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The New Reagan Revolution
How Ronald Reagan's Principles Can Restore America's Greatness

Thomas Dunne Books
“There are cynics who say that a party platform is something that no one bothers to read and it doesn’t very often amount to much. Whether it is different...
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Mommy's Little Girl
Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate

St. Martin's True Crime
When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony’s disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the...