Historical
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Man’s Search for Meaning
$16.00 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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Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
$0.00 Read moreTwo and a half years before her death in 1897 at the age of 24, as Thrse Martin began writing down her childhood memories at the request of her blood sisters in the Lisieux Carmel, few could have gues
- Author: Clarke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: January 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0935216588
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life
$26.00 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
$20.99 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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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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Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic
$21.00 Add to cartLet It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder… [more below]
- Author: DeRogatis, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0767905091
- Language: English
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A Tale Unasked
$20.00 Add to cartA new translation of Lady Nijo’s diary–one of classical Japan’s greatest literary works
A Penguin Classic Lady Nijo’s A Tale Unasked (Towazugatari) is the last, and arguably the finest, among classic- Author: Nijo, Lady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0241562465
- Language: English
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Townmania: Marcus Winchester and the Making of Memphis
$21.99 Add to cartTownmania: Marcus Winchester and the Making of Memphis tells the forgotten story of the man who transformed a frontier settlement on a Mississippi River bluff into the thriving city of Memphis. This f
- Author: Williams, R. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: November 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0998699756
- Language: English
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A Polish Girl in Siberia: Surviving and Transcending Exile
$14.99 Add to cartA memoir of a child’s forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin’s Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship.
In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida w
- Series: Disruption Curios
- Author: Kinalska-Pietruska, Ida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1633311406
- Language: English
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Man’s Search for Meaning
$24.00 Add to cartA gorgeous, deluxe edition of the bestselling Holocaust memoir about finding purpose and strength in times of despair–selected as a Library of Congress “10 Most Influential Books in America”
A Beacon- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 080701883X
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
$19.00 Add to cartIn her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor: Charles Dickens, John … [more below]
- Author: Rose, Phyllis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394725808
- Language: English
