Historical
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Man’s Search for Meaning
$17.95 Add to cartA book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.
“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0807014273
- Language: English
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age–by the author featured i… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0609809644
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great
$21.00 Add to cartIn the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror.
T- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 1416592814
- Language: English
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier
“An ideal pairing of talent and material. … Engrossing. ..
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Brown, Daniel James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 22, 2015
- ISBN10: 0061348112
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the acclaimed author of Churchill and The Last King of America–winner of the LA Times Book prize, finalist for the Plutarch prize, winner of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127853
- Language: English
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
$19.94 Add to cart“My purpose,” Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, “is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am.” Satyagraha, Gandhi’s nonviolent protest movement (satya = true,
- Author: Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1684117232
- Language: English
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartWritten in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner’s memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 190
- Author: Haffner, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421133
- Language: English
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Mao: The Unknown Story
$28.00 Add to cartThe most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talk
- Author: Chang, Jung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0679746323
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar
$20.00 Add to cartA fascinating, comprehensive biography of the cunning Roman conqueror Julius Caesar.More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped R… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0743289544
- Language: English
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
$18.99 Add to cartFive hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before saili… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Nancy Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0156033976
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541730348
- Language: English
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The Fields of Home
$16.95 Add to cart“A lively story . . . warm with humor; bright with incident and personality.”—San Francisco Chronicle
The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: January 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0803281943
- Language: English
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Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler–the “female Oskar Schindler”–who took staggering risks to save 2,500 chi
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 1476778515
- Language: English
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German Boy: A Refugee S Story
$35.95 Add to cartA refugee child’s witness to Nazi defeat, Soviet occupation, and his family’s debacle in war What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir the voice of innoc… [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: June 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1578062748
- Language: English
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Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and The Wild West Show
$24.00 Add to cartWilliam F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his r… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Louis S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0375726586
- Language: English
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Love Letters from Mount Rushmore: The Story of a Marriage, a Monument, and a Moment in History
$29.95 Read moreRelates the experience of sculptor Arthur Cerasani as he worked with Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in 1940.
- Author: Cerasani, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 31 2014
- ISBN10: 0986035572
- Language: English
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One Man in: The Explosive Firsthand Account of the Lone Special-Ops Commando Who Fought Off a Major Terrorist Attack in Kenya
$30.00 Read moreThis thrilling memoir by a heroic special forces soldier reads like a real-life version of an action movie.
It was midafternoon on January 15, 2019, and Christian Craighead was stepping out of the s- Author: Craighead, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1982177330
- Language: English
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Hope Against Hope: A Memoir
$27.00 Add to cartThe story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. Since 1917 The Modern Libr… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Mandelstam, Nadezhda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753168
- Language: English
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
$17.99 Add to cartAn abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual–though, as she maintained, a virgin–Elizabeth I is famed as England’s most successful ruler. Dav
- Author: Starkey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0061367435
- Language: English
