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![Never-Ending Birds: Poems](http://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/0514201100524.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“Never-Ending Birds”
“Never-Ending Birds” by David Baker covers all the topics that make great poetry with sweeping Midwestern landscapes and stories of childhood, loss, and new loves.
![A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America](http://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5614.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“A Bomb in Every Issue”
Peter Richardson’s “A Bomb in Every Issue” examines the legacy of a magazine that made history with its risky and controversial journalism.
![In CHEAP We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue](http://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5612.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“In Cheap We Trust”
Lauren Weber challenges the guilt-free spending that many Americans have come to take for granted.
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“The Relentless Revolution”
With the keen eye of an expert historian, Joyce Appleby traces the unlikely origins of capitalism in “The Relentless Revolution.”
![Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife](http://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2010/06/563.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“Anne Frank”
“Anne Frank” by Francine Prose combines literary gossip and historical facts to lay claim to the belief that the young WWII icon was nothing short of a literary genius.
![The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America](http://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2010/06/567.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“The Wilderness Warrior”
Douglas Brinkley takes on Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts to save America’s wilderness in “The Wilderness Warrior,” a book as big as its subject.
![Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)](http://www.web100.com/wp-content/themes/canvas/functions/thumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5620.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&q=90)
“Wolf Hall”
In “Wolf Hall,” Hilary Mantel tackles a larger-than-life character that has been exonerated, bashed, recast, and recycled for centuries: Henry VIII.
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“The Warmth of Other Suns”
“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” (Random House, 2010) is a story that was waiting to be told.
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5 intriguing facts from Hendrik Hertzberg’s “One Million”
One million: There’s something magical and mysterious about the number.