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“Seyler conveys excitement and adventure from a lost story of a pioneer explorer of the Middle East.”

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Writer Dale Peck was a journalism student at Columbia University when he joined ACT-UP at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

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“good storytelling built on solid scholarship . . .”

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Unger's biography of John Marshall reveals how he saved the nation, but also democracy's fragility.”

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“Anyone with an interest in history, WWII, Nazis, Eichmann, the Holocaust, genocide, or the escape of many powerful Nazis to South America will find this book an amazing collection of old a

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This biography, about a man whose name means literally “Gabriel of the Annunciation,” shines a light on one of Italy’s foremost poets and literary figures, as well as being a “preacher of war.”

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“Kadir Nelson has created a beautiful, heartfelt tribute to an icon of social justice.”

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“To say Master of the Mountain is compelling would be to understate the value of Henry Wiencek’s scholarship.”

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“. . . a swift, unrelenting trip down a shocking rabbit hole of incredible and frightening reality.”

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“This genuine record of Nazi terror stands as a powerful literary achievement . . . a superb reading experience.”

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“. . . from the ashes of WWII, this story rises like a phoenix of love, dedication, and courage.”

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“Ms. Emling’s riveting new biography reveals in page-turning prose the life-balance struggles of a true genius.”

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“While possibly a bit dry for bedtime reading, That’s What They Want You to Think does make fun plane, train, and (if someone else is driving) automobile reading.

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“For those well versed in the world of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, for those who are students of Freud, and for those who know the historical players in this game, The L

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“Fourteen of the twenty people involved in these experiential accounts of WWI were in their twenties when the war broke out.

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“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
—Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924

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