Historical
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Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America
$19.99 Add to cartAn authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a nation
How did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the Declaration of Independence and defeat the powerful British army? H- Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0470117923
- Language: English
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Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship
$21.99 Add to cartJack and Lem explores the enduring friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne Billings (aka “Lem”). Jack Kennedy and Lem Billings met at Choate and remained friends until the Dallas gunfire t… [more below]
- Author: Pitts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0306816237
- Language: English
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My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbr?k Survivor
$18.99 Add to cartAn international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edi… [more below]
- Author: Van de Perre, Selma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164689
- Language: English
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Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary, the First Complete Edition
$19.99 Add to cartA wonderful edition of a Jewish WWII heroine’s widely read and cherished diary, also including many of Hannah’s poems and letters, memoirs written by her mother and accounts by other parachutists who … [more below]
- Author: Senesh, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1580233422
- Language: English
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A Man and His Ship: America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States
$20.99 Add to cart“A fascinating historical account…A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country’s mid-century greatness” (The Wall Street Journal) as a man endeavors to build the finest, fastest, m… [more below]
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1451645090
- Language: English
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Napoleon
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend
On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Na- Author: Forrest, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250038359
- Language: English
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Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939
$27.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – This landmark biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs.
“[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how t- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1101872055
- Language: English
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Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAngela’s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt’s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I ma- Series: Frank McCourt Memoirs
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0684874350
- Language: English
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
$18.99 Add to cartThis is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir — an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. T
- Author: Massaquoi, Hans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0060959614
- Language: English
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Texas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star
$26.95 Add to cartTexas Jack: America’s First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B. “Texas Jack” Omohundro, the first well-known cowboy in America. A Confederate scout and spy from Virginia, Jack left for Texas within … [more below]
- Author: Kerns, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055410
- Language: English
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Papillon (Spanish Edition)
$16.95 Add to cart
Un clásico autobiográfico que relata la increÃble evasión de un hombre que vivió una auténtica odisea por perseguir aquello que nunca debió perder: la libertad. En 1931, Henri Charrière, apod- Author: Charriere, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 8466342141
- Language: Spanish
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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartWhen John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook–two of them were his grandmother’s grandparents. He began the lifelong resear… [more below]
- Author: Baker, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1416567410
- Language: English
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Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard of
$24.95 Read moreA fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society–in science, politics, art, and more–transformative. By the author a… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Valorie Castellanos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1797223631
- Language: English
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An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
$36.95 Add to cartNo one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country’s most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic
- Series: Environmental History and the American South
- Author: Davis, Jack E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 810
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 082033779X
- Language: English
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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
$25.99 Add to cartAn “engrossing and exciting” account of legendary New Orleans privateers Pierre and Jean Laffite and their adventures along the Gulf Coast (Booklist, starred review).
At large during the most colorful … [more below]
- Author: Davis, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 756
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156032597
- Language: English
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
$21.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
“Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable.”–Sadie Stein, The New York Times
“A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific a
- Author: Ciuraru, Carmela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0062356925
- Language: English
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John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy.
John Paul Jones, at sea and in the heat of the battle, was the- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0743258045
- Language: English
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Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
$19.99 Add to cartIn this authoritative biography, historian John Man brings Saladin and his world to life with vivid detail in “a rollicking good story” (Justin Marozzi).
Saladin remains one of the most iconic figure- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825422
- Language: English
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created–William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct–a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062251457
- Language: English
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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier
$29.99 Read moreThe Instant New York Times Besteller
National Bestseller “[The] authors’ finest work to date.” —Wall Street Journal
The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 20, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250247136
- Language: English
