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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

by Hampton Sides

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Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders

by Philip F. Anschutz

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“The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

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“each opportunity for escape was undermined by his certainty that things were about to go back to normal, that this savage new reality could not hold.”
― Colson Whitehead, Zone One

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“librarians should “read as a drunkard drinks or as a bird sings or a cat sleeps or a dog responds to an invitation to go walking, not from conscience or training, but because they’d rather do it than anything else in the world.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”
― Elizabeth Edwards

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