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The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff and His Revels

The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff and His Revels

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Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees

Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees

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Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters

Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters

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Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses

Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses

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The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights

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Liberation Was for Others: Memoirs of a Gay Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust

Liberation Was for Others: Memoirs of a Gay Survivor of the Nazi Holocaust

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Henry VIII: The King and His Court

Henry VIII: The King and His Court

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Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph over Despair and Statistics

Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph over Despair and Statistics

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My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy

My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy

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More Than Words

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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

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Not What I Expected

Not What I Expected

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My Thomas: A novel of Martha Jefferson's Life

My Thomas: A novel of Martha Jefferson's Life

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More Than Words

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Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

Against Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals, 1947-1986

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More Than Words

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The Prince of Frogtown

The Prince of Frogtown

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More Than Words

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Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority

Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority

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More Than Words

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Addicted to Danger: A Memoir About Affirming Life in the Face of Death

Addicted to Danger: A Memoir About Affirming Life in the Face of Death

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Never Ask Permission : Elisabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond

Never Ask Permission : Elisabeth Scott Bocock of Richmond

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Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd

Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd

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University of Massachusetts Press

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In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey

In Search of Churchill: A Historian's Journey

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More Than Words

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Crossing the Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original

Crossing the Line: The Outrageous Story of a Hockey Original

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Triumph Books (IL)

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A Living Gospel: Reading God's Story in Holy Lives

A Living Gospel: Reading God's Story in Holy Lives

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Orbis Books

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Neil Patrick Harris: Target

Neil Patrick Harris: Target

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More Than Words

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A Tramp Abroad (Penguin Classics)

A Tramp Abroad (Penguin Classics)

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Penguin Classics

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Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret

Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret

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Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion

Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion

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A Life of Privilege, Mostly

A Life of Privilege, Mostly

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More Than Words

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Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups of Tea

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More Than Words

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Barcelona The Great Enchantress (Directions)

Barcelona The Great Enchantress (Directions)

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Unrepentant: The Strange and (Sometimes) Terrible Life of Lorne Campbell, Satan's Choice and Hells Angels Biker

Unrepentant: The Strange and (Sometimes) Terrible Life of Lorne Campbell, Satan's Choice and Hells Angels Biker

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Vintage Canada

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Go Ask Ali: Half-Baked Advice (and Free Lemonade)

Go Ask Ali: Half-Baked Advice (and Free Lemonade)

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Harper

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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan

Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan

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Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education

Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education

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University of Chicago Press

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Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education

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The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

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PublicAffairs

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Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

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Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights

Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing that Changed the Course of Civil Rights

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All Points Books

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