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Arctic dreams
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Barry Lopez |
Barry Holstun Lopez:
“Arctic Dreams; Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape” ( 1986)
This is an account of the author's exploration of the Western Arctic region, between Bering Strait a… |
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Legacy of Ashes
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Tim Weiner |
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse… |
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The Hemingses of Monticello
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Annette Gordon-Reed |
Historian and legal scholar Gordon-Reed presents this epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, an American slave family, and their close blood ties to Thomas Jefferson. |
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James Joyce
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Richard Ellmann |
**James Joyce** by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959 (a revised edition was released in 1982). It provides an intimate and detailed account of the life of Irish modernist James Joyce, which infor… |
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American Sphinx
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Joseph J. Ellis |
For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political care… |
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Herman Melville
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Newton Arvin |
A narrative account of what is known of Melville's life, and an interpretation, in psychological and psychoanalytical terms, of Melville's personality. Critically, it presents an independent appraisa… |
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In the Heart of the Sea
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Nathaniel Philbrick |
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage to hunt whales. Fifteen months later, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. |
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