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A full-length account of the author's prize-winning New York Times story chronicles the exploitation and abuse case of a group of developmentally disabled workers, who for 25 years, were forced to work under harrowing conditions for virtually no wages until tenacious advocates helped them achieve their freedom.
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Revisiting the Salem witch trials of 1692 and 1693, during which more than 200 people were accused, this dramatic history of the Puritan tradition and how the power of early American ministers shaped the origins of the US depicts good, evil, community panic and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.
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In this revelatory book, professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires. Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through 60,000 years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that...
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2017.
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Through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and King George III, chronicles the path to American independence, from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe.
14) Little women
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Little Women series volume 1
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
15) Doctor Zhivago
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A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning epic banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 traces the interpersonal challenges of a poet and physician during the Russian Revolution, in an edition that seeks to restore Paternak's original rhythms, tone and precision.
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Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. Encompassing the remarkable people the protagonist, Meredith, meets, the historic events she witnesses, and the sacrifices she must make, this is the story of a woman changing her world as she herself is changed by it.
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A narrative chronicle of World War I's Arab Revolt explores the pivotal roles of a small group of adventurers and low-level officers who orchestrated a secret effort to control the Middle East, demonstrating how they instigated jihad against British forces, built an elaborate intelligence ring and forged ties to gain valuable oil concessions.
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"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once...
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