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No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
BUY Book | Kindle | Audiobook | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'No Turning Back,' the journeys of four Syrians in wartime Based on more than five years of clandestine reporting on the front...
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
BUY Book | Kindle | Audiobook | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Bunk:' A new book about hoaxes and what they tell us about ourselves Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly...
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright
BUY Book | Kindle | Audiobook Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them. Some of their responses to those outbreaks...
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American War by Omar El Akkad
Buy Book | Kindle | Audible | Audiobook | iBooks Weekend Edition: 'American War' Explores The Universality Of Revenge Depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late twenty-first...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Buy Book | Kindle | Audible | Audiobook | iBooks The Thread: In the 1920s, a community conspired to kill Native Americans for their oil money The Thread: David Grann on the...
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Yaffe
BUY Book | Kindle | Audiobook In this intimate biography, composed of dozens of in-person interviews with Mitchell, David Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs - from her youth...
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Prince and the Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions: 1983 and 1984 by Duane Tudahl
BUY Book | Kindle | Audio CD His journey is meticulously documented through detailed accounts of his time secluded behind the doors of the recording studio as well as his days on...
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Grant by Ron Chernow
BUY Book | Kindle | Audiobook All Things Considered: From Hamilton To Grant: Ron Chernow Paints A 'Farsighted' President in New Biography Pulitzer prize-winning author Ron Chernow has a new book...
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