Harry and Arthur by Lawrence J. Haas

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Harry and Arthur | Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World by Lawrence J. Haas explains how Vice President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil after Franklin Roosevelt’s death in April of 1945. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as America’s new adversary, President Truman and Senator Vandenberg built a tight, bipartisan partnership at a bitterly partisan time to craft a dramatic new foreign policy through which the United States stepped boldly onto the world stage to protect its friends, confront its enemies, and promote freedom.

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For the Love of Wine by Alice Feiring

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For the Love of Wine | My Odyssey through the World’s Most Ancient Wine Culture by Alice Feiring is a journey of exploration and delight in the country of Georgia. From Tbilisi to Batumi, Feiring meets winemakers, bishops, farmers, artists, and silk spinners. She feasts, toasts, and collects recipes. She encounters the thriving qvevri craftspeople of the countryside, wild grape hunters, and even Stalin’s last winemaker while plumbing the depths of this tiny country’s love for its wines.

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The Most Wanted Man in China by Fang Lizhi

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The Most Wanted Man in China | My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State by Fang Lizhi is a brilliant memoir of a Chinese astrophysicist who challenged the authority of Communist China. His story, told with vivid detail and disarming humor, is a testament to the importance of remaining true to one’s principles in an unprincipled time and place. 

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The Next America by Paul Taylor

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The Next America | Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown by Paul Taylor looks into the future dynamics of America’s generational society. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use.

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Too Much of a Good Thing by Lee Goldman, M.D.

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Too Much of a Good Thing | How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us by Dr. Lee Goldman discusses the ways in which the human body has evolved with the modern environment. Dr. Lee Goldman presents a radical explanation: The key protective traits that once ensured our species’ survival are now the leading global causes of illness and death.

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Empty Chairs by Liu Xia

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Empty Chairs by Liu Xia tells the author’s life story through her powerful poetry. The book presents the poetry of Liu Xia for the first time freely in both English translation and in the Chinese original, and creates a portrait of a life lived under duress, a voice in danger of being silenced, and a spirit that is shaken but so far indomitable.

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The Angel by Uri Bar-Joseph

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The Angel | The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel by Uri Bar-Joseph is an Netflix original movie and was named the best intelligence book for 2017 by the American Association of Former Intelligence Officers. A gripping feat of reportage that exposes—for the first time in English—the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel, offering new insight into the turbulent modern history of the Middle East.

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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn by Robert P. Watson

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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn | An Untold Story of the American Revolution by Robert P. Watson visits the experience and impact of a British prison ship during the American Revolution. The book follows the lives and ordeals of the ship’s few survivors to tell the astonishing story of the cursed ship that killed thousands of Americans and yet helped secure victory in the fight for independence.

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Deng Xiaoping by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine

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Deng Xiaoping | A Revolutionary Life by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine provides a look into the entire life of influential Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. Based on newly discovered documents, the book covers his entire life, from his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era.

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The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong by Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston

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The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong | The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet by Gyalo Thondup and Anne F. Thurston tells the story of the Dalai Lama’s exiled family from their sacred homeland of Tibet. For the last sixty years, Gyalo Thondup has been at the at the heart of the epic struggle to protect and advance Tibet in the face of unreliable allies, overwhelming odds, and devious rivals.

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