The Rival Queens - Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom by Nancy Goldstone
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Category: REM History
The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable wo ...Show more
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
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Category: REM History
In this gripping narrative of Putin's rise to power, Steven Lee Myers recounts Putin's origins--from his childhood of abject poverty in Leningrad to his ascent through the ranks of the KGB, and his eventual consolidation of rule in the Kremlin. As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the ...Show more
When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys by Thomas Maier
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Category: REM History
The first comprehensive history of the deeply entwined personal and public lives of the Churchills and the Kennedys and what their "special relationship" meant for Great Britain and the United States "When Lions Roar "begins in the mid-1930s at Chartwell, Winston Churchill's country estate, with new rev ...Show more
A Force So Swift - Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China 1949 by Kevin Peraino
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$49.99 (72% off)
Category: REM History
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East ...Show more
MAY WE BE FORGIVEN by HOMES A M
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Category: REM Fiction
Winner of the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always compelling, devastating, and furiously good (Zadie Smith) Harold Silver has spent a lifetime watching his younger brother, George, a taller, smarter, and more successful high ...Show more
Railway Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden
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Category: REM Visual Arts
"Transit Maps of the World" was an extraordinary and unexpected success and is now a cult favorite. In his irresistible follow-up Ovenden has produced a mesmerizing compendium of historical and contemporary railway maps and posters from every corner of the world.
Animalphabet (HC) by Julia Donaldson
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Category: REM Hardback Picture Books | Reading Level: 7 Kids picture
A splendidly die-cut alphabet of animals from Number 1 bestselling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, and visionary illustrator Sharon King-Chai.Each cleverly cut flap draws you further into a beautifully vibrant world of huge elephants, slithery snakes and growling tigers. Sharon King-Chai's bold ...Show more
Evolutions; 15 Myths That Explain Our .. by Oren Harman
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Category: REM Science | Reading Level: near fine
A reimagining of modern science and ancient mythology, and of what it means to be human. We may no longer think that the world was hatched from an egg, as the ancient Chinese did, or that our fate is ruled by a capricious Zeus and a resentful Hera. We now use genes to explain desire, and physics to expl ...Show more
Botany Bay and the First Fleet: The Real Story by Alan Frost
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Category: REM Australian Studies
Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British aut ...Show more