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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
By Michael Albertus
The hazards of laying claim to the ground beneath our feet.
An unsatisfying portrait of little-known WWII heroes.
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
By Eleanor Barraclough
The legendary pillagers led charmingly ordinary home lives.
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
By Judith Tick
An exhaustive, unsatisfying look at one of the 20th century’s premier performers.
Predicting Our Climate Future
By David Stainforth
Are projections about global warming really just guesstimates?
November 1942
By Peter Englund; translated by Peter Graves
An extraordinary chronicle of ordinary people caught up in battle.
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
By Kate Winkler Dawson
What should’ve been a page-turner is more of a slog.
Where the Evidence Takes Us: A Memoir of a Scotland Yard Detective
By Kevin O’Leary
An uneven, sometimes insightful reflection from a former lawman.
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