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Midnight's Borders
A People's History of Modern India
Steve Schale
2023-02-22T03:57:33.000ZWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARTime, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public LibraryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWA...
Steve Schale
2023-02-19T14:27:13.000Z
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
The Fight for Our Future
Steve Schale
2023-01-24T03:26:31.000ZThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to ...
Steve Schale
2022-12-22T05:03:07.000ZNew York Times...
Steve Schale
2022-12-22T04:44:37.000ZHaving already pedalled 18,000 miles from Britain to Beijing, Charlie Walker’s homeward leg carried him a further 26,000 miles through Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The two-and-a-half-year journey spanned the mountains and deserts of former Soviet Republics, Afghanistan on the fearful brink of foreign withdrawal, and remote corners of ...
Steve Schale
2022-12-22T04:39:46.000Z
Once Upon a Time in Russia
The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from deep inside the world of billionaire Russian oligarchs that Booklist called “one more example of just how talented a storyteller [Mezrich] is.”Meet tw...
Steve Schale
2022-12-22T04:35:56.000ZFrom a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's ruleIn this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country's most remarkable figures--from politicians and en...
Steve Schale
2022-12-22T04:29:50.000Z
Red Notice
A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liars Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browders business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putins Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate for an...
Steve Schale
2022-12-22T04:24:55.000ZNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. "The best true spy story I have ever read."--JOHN LE CARR� If anyone could be considered a Russian counter...
Steve Schale
2022-12-22T04:15:38.000ZEmpire of Rubber by Gregg Mitman
World Travel by Anthony Bourdain
The Border by Erika Fatland
Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
Second Suns by David Oliver Relin
The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama
The Harlem Shake (The Harlem Apocalypse Book 1) by Jeff Carroll
No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian by Paul F. Knitter
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
The Children by David Halberstam
The New History of Florida by