Historical
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Bismarck: A Life
$26.99 Add to cartThis riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian cul… [more below]
- Author: Steinberg, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199975396
- Language: English
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
$20.99 Add to cartThe revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.
“[Lars… [more below]- Author: Larson, Kate Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0544811909
- Language: English
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Hope Against Hope: Introduction by Maria Stepanova
$32.00 Read moreNadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of life with her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin’s Soviet Union and one of the most moving testaments to the value of literature… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Mandelstam, Nadezhda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 110190836X
- Language: English
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Bending Toward Justice: A Memoir of Two Decades of LGBT Leadership and the Founding of the Human Rights Campaign
$21.00 Add to cart “Drawing on his experience as the first executive director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Vic Basile has written a valuable addition to the story of one of the most consequential movement
- Author: Basile, Vic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985034165
- Language: English
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The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance
$18.95 Read more“[Colby] breathes new life into well-trodden WWII tropes, building a vivid, novelistic narrative focused on memory and family.” — Publishers Weekly
“The writing is vivid and lyrical, the narratives
- Author: Colby, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417354
- Language: English
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.
In July 1865, “Wild Bill” Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Spr- Series: Frontier Lawmen
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1250178169
- Language: English
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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero
$23.99 Add to cartThe “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. … [more below]
- Author: Canellos, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1501188216
- Language: English
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Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man
$46.58 Add to cartThe first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age
In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, str- Author: Andersson, Peter K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0691250162
- Language: English
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The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
$16.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew
- Author: Beer, Edith Hahn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062378082
- Language: English
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Boone: A Biography
$21.99 Add to cartThe story of Daniel Boone is the story of America–its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.
Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a fr- Series: Shannon Ravenel Books (Paperback)
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1565126157
- Language: English
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Witness
$29.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestseller for 13 consecutive weeks
“As long as humanity speaks of virtue and dreams of freedom, the life and writings of Whittaker Chambers will ennoble and inspire.” – PRESIDENT R- Series: Cold War Classics
- Author: Chambers, Whittaker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 718
- Publish Date: December 08 2014
- ISBN10: 162157296X
- Language: English
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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
$22.99 Add to cartIn this definitive biography of father and son, an eminent historian “brings to life the full drama of ancient history” (Wall Street Journal)
Alexander the Great’s conquests staggered the world. He led
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602625
- Language: English
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Blackbeard: America’s Most Notorious Pirate
$23.99 Add to cart“A thorough, exciting examination of 18th-century pirate life, with wonderful details.”
“Interesting and exciting . . . a thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of an interesting life and i
–Publishers Weekly- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0470128216
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin’s Book of Virtues
$12.95 Add to cartThis pocket-sized hardcover edition contains all thirteen “moral virtues” as Benjamin Franklin wrote them in his memoirs, first posthumously published in 1791. In the heart of this larger work–today … [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1429093552
- Language: English
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Out of the Depths: The Story of a Child of Buchenwald Who Returned Home at Last
$19.99 Read moreA moving account of survival and faith from Israel Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor and former Chief Rabbi of Israel, with forewords by former President of Israel Shimon Peres and the bestselling author
- Author: Lau, Rabbi Israel Meir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1454942630
- Language: English
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Faithful Friends: Holocaust Survivors’ Stories of the Pets Who Gave Them Comfort, Suffered Alongside Them and Waited for Their Return
$12.99 Add to cartWhat happened to the pets that were left behind in World War II Europe, when Jewish families were torn from their homes and taken to ghettos and concentration camps, forced to leave neighborhoods, liv… [more below]
- Author: Bulanda, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0981892949
- Language: English
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Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin
$21.95 Add to cartBorn to great riches, lord of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a Grand Lord in the days before the Russian Revolution. Married to a niece of Czar Nicholas II, he
- Author: Youssouppoff, Prince Felix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: July 31 2014
- ISBN10: 1885983662
- Language: English
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Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
$21.95 Add to cartA renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable m
- Author: Fortunate Eagle, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 19 2010
- ISBN10: 080614114X
- Language: English
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A View through the Fog
$36.95 Add to cartA View through the Fog is compelling, poignant, and packed with both moving and hilarious anecdotes. All human life (and death) is here. With his own distinct voice, McGee opens the door on the dizzyi
- Author: McGee, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: May 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1957354275
- Language: English
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The Pillow Book of SEI Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan
$13.95 Add to cartJapan in the 10th century stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Inside this bubble, a subtle and beautiful world was in operation, and its inhabitants were tied to the m… [more below]
- Author: Waley, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 10 2011
- ISBN10: 4805311088
- Language: English
