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After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was America's most important source for foreign news, but to continue reporting under the Nazi regime the agency made both journalistic and moral compromises. Its reporters and photographers in Berlin endured onerous censorship, complied with anti-Semitic edicts, and faced accusations...
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The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students.
The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities-well-funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility-embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools...
43) Titanic
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On 14 April 1912, less than a week into a transatlantic trip from Southampton to New York, the largest luxury cruise liner in the world struck an iceberg off the coast of Labrador, causing the hull to buckle. The massive 50,000 ton ship hailed as 'unsinkable' was soon slipping into the cold Atlantic Ocean, the crew and passengers scrambling to launch lifeboats before being sucked into the deep. Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500...
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"Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding." - Kirkus Reviews
A completely revised and updated edition of the classic volume of oral history interviews with high-profile leaders and little-known participants in the gay rights movement that cumulatively provides a powerful documentary look at the struggle for gay rights in America.
From the Boy Scouts and...
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When Making History was first published in 1992, the acclaimed oral historian Studs Terkel called it, "One of the definitive works on gay life." Novelist Armistead Maupin said that author "Eric Marcus not only writes with grace and clarity but makes it look so easy-the ultimate measure of historian and novelist alike." Now, for the first time, the original complete edition of Making History is available in e-book.
Through his engaging oral histories,...
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El último libro de la arrolladora serie histórica de la autora número 1 en ventas del Sunday Times.
Marrakech, 1966
En la oscuridad del traqueteante tren nocturno que atraviesa Marruecos, la estudiante Vicky Baudin busca la verdad sobre su misteriosa abuela, que dio a su padre en adopción décadas atrás.
Clemence Petier vive en una kasbah en lo alto del Atlas, donde guarda celosamente su pasado. Mientras se prepara para recibir a una nieta desconocida,...
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From lowly shopkeeper…
To society lady?
Linked to The Widows of Westram. When the Earl of Westram accuses antiques seller Harriet Godfrey of peddling fakes, she accepts his grudging offer to help bring her supplier to justice. Only, spending time with Westram sparks an irresistible attraction… As an earl, he's destined for a suitable society match, and she never wants to give up her independence. So perhaps this is the last chance for both of...
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Londres, 1940. Mientras las bombas alemanas llueven sobre la ciudad de Londres, Emma Bradley empaca de prisa, toma a su bebé recién nacido en brazos, y toma un tren junto con dos niños evacuados, a los que aceptó cuidar a cambio de un empleo en el sur de Inglaterra. Aunque es uno de los miles que abandonan la ciudad, Emma huye de algo más que de los horrores de la guerra. Su mayor miedo es que el padre del niño los rastree y se vengue por lo...
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An unwanted daughter adapts to survive and grows into a young woman determined to forge a new life for herself. But searching for freedom during the rise of fascism may come with a price.
Forty years after meeting Shelby Morrow, two men reminisce - one, a loyal lifelong friend and the other, a man who loved her then publicly shamed her. Through their eyes, we are introduced to a remarkable survivor. Born into a privileged yet highly dysfunctional...
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A couple's move to an old West Virginia house stirs up a haunting hundred-year-old mystery . . .
June 23, 1923: Local Couple Disappears Under Suspicious Circumstances
Thanks to a new job opportunity, and with their children now grown, Mary and her husband, Rick, have moved from Indiana into a one-hundred-year-old home in West Virginia. But while adjusting to such a big change in her life, she has no idea that she is about to encounter the...
51) Boxing Day
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Donora, Pennsylvania-December, 1923It's Christmastime and twenty-four-year-old Socialite, Wrenly Hawthorne, is teetering between the comfort of family wealth and her risky drive for independence. Feeling estranged from friends and at odds with her parents, she is searching for "something more." With keen interest in the freedom that the women's right to vote should have brought, she studies the stock market and plans to attend school. She is sure...
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A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for civil rights.
From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legal segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional, to the Nashville sit-ins organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and from the Freedom Rides to the March on Washington, to...
53) One & Only
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A desperate woman meets a man on a mission.Maggie Sturgus thought she knew the man she married. She couldn't be more wrong. Trapped in an abusive marriage inside a prominent family, she sees no means of escape when her husband announces his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.Four friends enlisted following Pearl Harbor and the secret they brought home will rock their small town and tear families apart. But Josh Parrish made a battlefield promise...
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A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and a notable book of 2023 by Behavioral Scientist.
Creativity is one of American society's signature values, but the idea that there is such a thing as "creativity"-and that it can be cultivated-is surprisingly recent, entering our everyday speech in the 1950s. As Samuel W. Franklin reveals, postwar Americans...
55) The Lonely Tree
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A love story that brings to life the history of Israel, from the 1930's to the Six Days War in 1967, with the initial focus on events at one isolated border kibbutz – Kfar Etzion.Tonia is the daughter of modern orthodox Polish immigrants, who are fervent socialist Zionists. Amos is a passionate patriot, whose Yemenite family has lived in Jerusalem for seven generations. Though irresistibly drawn to one another, Tonia and Amos are very different....
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In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit's Jews played in the city's well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century urban transformations, Metropolitan Jews tells the story of Jews leaving the city while retaining a deep connection to it. Berman argues convincingly that though...
57) True Harvest
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A reluctant daughter takes over a centuries-old winery in Cold War Germany. A Polish physician crosses into the West during the harvest. A love story that defies time, distance and political upheaval. When her father has a stroke, Marielle Hartmann gives up her rising career as a banker to return home to run her family's 300-year-old winery just as the harvest season begins. Because she's been away from the land, Marielle lacks the knowledge, instincts...
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This is a steamy historical romance short story (word count 6,185).Lydia finds herself in a desperate situation with her family. She needs to act quickly, or they will be homeless. There is only one person whom she knows she can turn to: the Marquess of Brubeck. But Lydia is fully aware that the Marquess' help will come at a price. He has made no pretence of his pursuit of her and his determination to possess her in every way possible!This leaves...
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Deciphering the New Antisemitism addresses the increasing prevalence of antisemitism on a global scale. Antisemitism takes on various forms in all parts of the world, and the essays in this wide-ranging volume deal with many of them: European antisemitism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. Contributors are an international group of scholars who clarify the cultural, intellectual,...
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"I had two husbands." The discovery of long-hidden love letters leads New York caterer Cara Serafini on a journey to understanding her formidable grandmother, Giulia Fiorillo. Born in a mountain village in southern Italy, the spirited Giulia arrives at the age of sixteen in a rough New Yor immigrant neighborhood at the beginning of the twentieth century, forced from the comforts and constrictions of her family by the fierce drive of her mother. In...
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