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  • Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

    by Pietro Pinti ...
    Pietro Pinti, born as he says 'in the Middle Ages,' worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers to generally unscrupulous landowners. But during World War II, when millions in towns and cities suffered untold hardships, the hardy Tuscan ... Read more

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  • Family of Spies

    A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor

    by Christine Kuehn ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER • INDIE BESTSELLER"An amazing and gripping tale, full of suspenseful twists and cinematic details" ―New York Times Book ReviewA propulsive, never-before-told story of one family’s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies during WWII and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.</str... ... Read more

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  • A Secret in Tuscany

    by Alan Hlad ...
    The Tuscan Child meets Beneath a Scarlet Sky in this bittersweet tale of wartime heroism, love, and redemption, spanning two generations and encompassing a real-life mystery, from the author of The Long Flight Home and Churchill’s Secret Messenger.Italy, 1943: With war blazing through Europe, nowhere is entirely safe—not even the remote hills of the Tuscan countryside. It’s here that Italian ... Read more

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  • A Demon-Haunted Land

    Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany

    by Monica Black ...
    This account of German citizens swept up in a wave of supernatural obsessions after WWII and the Holocaust is "an engrossing story from beginning to end" ( Booklist).In the aftermath of World War II in Germany, a messianic faith healer rose to extraordinary fame, prayer groups performed exorcisms, and enormous crowds traveled to witness apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Most strikingly, scores of ... Read more

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  • An Atlas of Extinct Countries

    by Gideon Defoe ...
    A funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated, and timely history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist—"Perfect for fans of Atlas Obscura " ( Publishers Weekly )."Defoe writes in revv-edup prose a bit like Hunter S. Thompson's, but more jokey and with an English accent. . . . I enjoy it immensely." —Michael Dirda, <stron... ... Read more

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  • Primo Levi's Resistance

    Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy

    by Sergio Luzzatto ...
    A daring investigation of Primo Levi's brief career as a fighter with the Italian Resistance, and the grim secret that haunted his lifeNo other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo Levi. Yet Levi was not only a victim or a witness. In the fall of 1943, at the very start of the Italian Resistance, he was a fighter, participating in the first ... Read more

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  • Empire of Crime

    Opium and the Rise of Organized Crime in the British Empire

    by Tim Newark ...
    Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results. In 1908, British reformers banned the export of Indian opium to China. As a result, the world price of opium soared to a new high and a century of lucrative drug smuggling began. Just as the banning of alcohol in America during Prohibition made illicit fortunes for the Mafia and other gangsters, organized criminals grew rich on the trade of ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Pawn

    The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust

    by Stephen Koch ...
    Discover a little-known chapter in Holocaust literature with this “riveting tale” of the 17-year-old Jew who was the first to take up arms against the Nazi regime (Wall Street Journal).“Reads like a thriller.” —New York Journal of BooksAfter learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan (pronounced Greenspan) bought a small handgun and on November 7, 1938, went to the German ... Read more

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  • Conversations with a Masked Man

    My Father, the CIA, and Me

    by John Hadden ...
    For forty years John Hadden and his father of the same name fought at the dinner table over politics, art, and various issues concerning America. One was haunted by what he had witnessed during his long CIA career, from Berlin to Tel Aviv; the other retreated to the Vermont woods to direct Shakespeare until finally he confronted his father at the table one last time with a tape recorder. ... Read more

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  • A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea

    One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

    by Melissa Fleming ...
    The gripping story of a young woman who fled civil war in Syria and endured a harrowing journey across the Mediterranean for a chance of a better life.Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight, just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around, nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel stays afloat on a small inflatable ring and clutches two little girls—barely toddlers—to her body. The ... Read more

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  • The Lambs

    My Father, A Farm, and the Gift of a Flock of Sheep

    by Carole George ...
    "A thoughtful document that dispels any assumptions that sheep are 'just dumb farm animals' who do nothing but follow . . . an enchanting book." ―Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of PeaceIn this touching memoir about the relationship between father, daughter, and animals, Carole explores life after adopting thirteen pet Karakul lambs. Throughout her years ... Read more

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  • Language Arts

    A Novel

    by Stephanie Kallos ...
    A novel that is "utterly absorbing, and full of wit [with] a doozy of a twist . . . An all-around delight" (Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?).Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, his ex-wife, or his college-bound daughter, who has just flown the nest ... Read more

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