Historical
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George Washington’s Barbados Diary, 1751-52
$37.95 Add to cartIn the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island of Barbados–the one and only time that the future Re
- Author: Washington, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0813941377
- Language: English
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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry–an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this bri
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #21
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141956
- Language: English
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
$30.99 Add to cart“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” –Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082611
- Language: English
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman’s Life on the Mormon Frontier
$11.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. The family, … [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803273401
- Language: English
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The Spirit of St. Louis
$24.00 Add to cartThe classic, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Charles A. Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flightAlong with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. No… [more below]
- Author: Lindbergh, Charles A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0743237056
- Language: English
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
$22.99 Add to cartA “vivid, well-documented account of the farmworkers movement”(Philadelphia Inquirer) and its prime mover, Cesar Chavez. Edited by Diana Hembree with a foreword by Gary Soto and essays by Carey McWill… [more below]
- Author: Ferriss, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0156005980
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
$24.99 Add to cart“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography. . . . completely absorbing.”–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0060938250
- Language: English
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Hijas de la Historia
$19.95 Read moreCON UNA MINUCIOSA INVESTIGACI?N, ISABEL CONSPIRA PARA ENTREGAR A LOS LECTORES UNA VISI?N DE LA HISTORIA FEMENINA QUE NO ES COMPLACIENTE Y S? MUY REVELADORA . ALEJANDRO ROSAS Las vendieron como esclava… [more below]
- Author: Revuelta, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 6070779177
- Language: Spanish
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Surviving Stutthof: My Father’s Memories Behind the Death Gate
$13.00 Read moreAs the first Russian bombs drop on Oulu, Finland in early 1940 during the Winter War, Aarne Kovala is a young boy with a great love of the sea. While the war rages, Aarne takes fate into his own hands
- Author: Kovala, Liisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0994918399
- Language: English
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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for 1993
In the first and most reliable biography of Daniel Boone in more than fifty years, award-winning historian Faragher brilliantly portrays- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0805030077
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
$19.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Book
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hi
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307455262
- Language: English
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Marcus Aurelius: A Life
$24.99 Add to cartMarcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) is one of the great figures of antiquity who still speaks to us today, more than two thousand years after his death. His Meditations has been compared by John Stuart Mill … [more below]
- Author: McLynn, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0306819163
- Language: English
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Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful, poignant, and inspirational novel, a Lambda Literary Award winner, is the true story of two unlikely lovers set against World War II Berlin–a riveting chronicle of love, loyalty, and s
- Author: Fischer, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0062390376
- Language: English
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Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent
$29.95 Add to cartWould it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway’s who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque id
- Author: Bowman, Rex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0813946670
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of Nasa’s Visionary Leader George M. Low
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the “ultimate engineer” du
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Jurek, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 149622941X
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
$24.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured
- Author: Van Iperen, Roxane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0063119331
- Language: English
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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
$33.68 Add to cart“King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history.”–The Wall Street Journal
Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary fi- Author: Nelson, Janet L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 520383214
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man
$21.00 Add to cartWhat turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to … [more below]
- Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Author: Hamann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1848852770
- Language: English
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library
$17.00 Add to cartThis impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollyw… [more below]
- Author: Wilson-Lee, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982111402
- Language: English
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Titanic Survivor
$17.95 Add to cartViolet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on… [more below]
- Author: Jessop, Violet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1574093150
- Language: English
