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  Stranger in a Strange Land

  NAME: Valentine Michael Smith
  ANCESTRY: Human
  ORIGIN: Mars
  
  Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understan…

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  Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)

  In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, whe…

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  The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)

  A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be d…

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  The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)

  Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s third Philip Marlowe mystery.
  
  Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detec…

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  Dirty Snow

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  Midnight’s Children

  An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.
  
  Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, …

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  1776

  In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when the whole American ca…

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  The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

  The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.
  
  Do tough times create tou…

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  The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945

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  SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

  In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undispute…

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  The Rum Diary

  Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto …

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  The Longest Day: June 6, 1944

  The unparalleled work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II -- now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of D-Day.
  
  Newly in print for the first time in years, this is the c…

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  Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

  Geography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed...
  
  All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events…

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  Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

  Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers o…

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  The Lessons of History

  In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten…

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  Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

  An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.
  

  I…

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  First Blood: Fort Sumter to Bull Run

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  The Eyes of the Overworld (The Dying Earth, #2)

  Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that reveal the Overworld. Goaded by a homesick monster magically attached to his liver, he journeys across w…

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  The Mexican War

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  Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)

  Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.
  
  Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.
  
  But even she found that meddling in royal p…

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