Historical
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Wild Bunch Women
$12.95 Add to cartExplore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch outlaw gang.
- Author: Rutter, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0762725850
- Language: English
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo De’ Medici
$21.00 Add to cartA vividly colorful portrait of one of the greatest and most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, Lorenzo de’ Medici, focusing on his role as a brilliant–sometimes ruthless–statesman who was respo… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Miles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 074325435X
- Language: English
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The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza De’ Medici
$18.99 Add to cartThe astonishing life of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince.
In t… [more below]
- Author: Lev, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0547844166
- Language: English
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And the World Closed Its Doors: The Story of One Family Abandoned to the Holocaust
$21.99 Add to cartIn this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would al… [more below]
- Author: Large, David Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0465038093
- Language: English
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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
$14.95 Read moreSince its publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic. In “quick, translucent prose” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, D. J. Waldie recoun
- Author: Waldie, D. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327280
- Language: English
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Joseph Banks: A Life
$23.00 Add to cartOne of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history’s most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O’Brian’s biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of A… [more below]
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: December 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0226616282
- Language: English
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Lucie’s Hope: George Levy Mueller’s Memoirs of the Holocaust
$18.00 Add to cartLucie’s Hope follows George Mueller’s life from a secure childhood in Germany before the Second World War, to his family’s persecution by the Nazi Party. George’s account chronicles losing both his pa
- Author: Mueller, George Levy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: March 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1930546297
- Language: English
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Stay Alive, My Son
$17.95 Add to cartIn Stay Alive, My Son, Pin Yathay provides an unforgettable testament of the horror that ensued and a gripping account of personal courage, sacrifice and survival.
Documenting the 27 months from the a- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Yathay, Pin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0671663941
- Language: English
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Last Man Down: A Firefighter’s Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center
$7.99 Read moreA first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11–the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours.
On September 11, 2001- Author: Picciotto, Richard
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0425189880
- Language: English
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
$29.99 Add to cartTelling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, Admiral of the Ocean Sea is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the wo… [more below]
- Author: Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: October 12 1991
- ISBN10: 0316584789
- Language: English
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
$27.00 Add to cartA heartrending story of the human spirit from the author of the bestselling Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller returns with the unforgettable true story of Colton H. Bryant, a soulfu- Author: Fuller, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115375
- Language: English
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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
$18.99 Add to cartIn The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washing… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061139130
- Language: English
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Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation
$26.00 Read moreThe story of the prophet Elijah’s transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition
“In a series on Jewish Lives, this volume is about the Jewish life–t- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Matt, Daniel C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0300242700
- Language: English
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The High Sheriff of Greene: The True Story of Legendary Lawman L.L. Wyatt
$19.95 Add to cartDuring Prohibition, Greene County was the moonshine capital of Georgia. A corrupt sheriff and hundreds of illegal stills made this little area east of Atlanta the source of liquor for hotels in the ci
- Author: Hertzler, Claire Underwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1944193626
- Language: English
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Woman Of Many Names
$14.99 Add to cartWoman of Many Names is a deeper look into a woman who helped shaped the history of our Nation. Nancy Ward had ties to Daniel Boone and George Washington, including having saved the latter’s life (and,
- Author: Yates, Debra S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1943496072
- Language: English
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Etty Hillesum: Essential Writings
$20.00 Add to cartEtty Hillesum (1914-1943), a young Dutch Jewish woman, died in Auschwitz at the age of 29. This volume, drawn from her letters and diaries, lays out the themes of her distinctive and inspiring spiritu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Spiritual Masters
- Author: Hillesum, Etty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 157
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1570758387
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Ann Bailey: The Pioneer Heroine of the Great Kanawha Valley
$9.95 Add to cartBack in print after more than a century, this book is the only major biography in existence on Ann Bailey. Newly indexed and containing supplemented images and a map, it is also important for genealog… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Virgil E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0966724607
- Language: English
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Luis de Carvajal: The Origins of Nuevo Reino de Leon
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion of present day Mexico, as well as portions of Texas a
- Author: Temkin, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0865348294
- Language: English
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My Name Is Bill
$17.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Bill Wilson, the man who established Alcoholics Anonymous, and the first to be written with access to documents in that organization’s archives, by a noted author who is he… [more below]
- Author: Cheever, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0743405919
- Language: English
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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy
$19.95 Read moreA compelling biography of the legendary king, rebel, and poisoner who defied the Roman Empire
Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His- Author: Mayor, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0691150265
- Language: English
