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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Military fiction that imagines a geopolitical conflict in the year 2054"--
It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that's held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From a #1 New York Times best-selling author and beloved television host comes a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 718 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this magisterial history of the continent, Kathleen DuVal traces the power of Native nations from the rise of ancient cities more than 1000 years ago to the present. She reframes North American history, noting significantly that Indigenous civilizations did not come to a halt when a few wandering explorers or hungry settlers arrived, even when the strangers came well-armed. A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 518 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The defining moment of Hubert Humphrey's life occurred on the evening of August 29, 1968, as he rose to accept the nomination as Democratic candidate for president at the International Amphitheater in Chicago. As Humphrey recited what he hoped would be healing verses from St. Francis--"where there is hate, let me sow love"--a contingent of National Guardsman began firing tear gas at thousands of demonstrators outside. "The whole world is watching,"...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 562 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A story of friendship, first love, and an impossible choice between integrity and duty, family and friends, all while fighting for a dream. Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the unsettled months of protest that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late 1980s. Written in stunning lyrical verse,...
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