Historical
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Up from Slavery
$6.95 Add to cartThe dramatic autobiographical account of Booker T. Washington’s unique American experience–a struggle against social and ideological bias that he began as a slave and never stopped.
“Washington’s sto- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531477
- Language: English
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Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
$37.99 Add to cartDuring the past year Paul McCartney has been in the public’s eye more than at any time since the peak of Beatlemania over thirty years ago. His fans have been treated to the best-selling Flaming Pie a
- Author: Miles, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0805052496
- Language: English
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Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House
$22.95 Add to cartInside the “Most Haunted” House in New Orleans
The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron and accused slave torturer, has haunted New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. Her ma
- Author: Long, Carolyn Morrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0813061830
- Language: English
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Journey Into the Whirlwind
$19.99 Add to cartJourney into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg’s courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Union’s prisons and labor camps.
By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyo… [more below]
- Series: Helen and Kurt Wolff Books
- Author: Ginzburg, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027518
- Language: English
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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Rom… [more below]
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0300216661
- Language: English
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
$22.00 Add to cartThe definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest.
On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0375708154
- Language: English
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored … [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: April 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0385313489
- Language: English
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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1: The Dryden Translation
$20.00 Add to cartPlutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by fa… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756760
- Language: English
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA classic Civil War memoir, Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. It is a
- Author: Watkins, Sam R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743255410
- Language: English
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Bill W: The Absorbing and Deeply Moving Life Story of Bill Wilson, Co-Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
$17.95 Add to cartRobert Thomsen’s biography describes the story of Bill W., a stirring spiritual odyssey through triumph, failure, and rebirth, with vital meaning for men and women everywhere.
This is the story of a m- Series: Absorbing and Deeply Moving Life Story of Bill Wilson, Co-Fo
- Author: Thomsen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 31 1999
- ISBN10: 1568383436
- Language: English
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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
$16.95 Read moreWith an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designate… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 12 1980
- ISBN10: 0394738624
- Language: English
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa.
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars- Author: Mathabane, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0684848287
- Language: English
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1451668848
- Language: English
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A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
$19.95 Add to cartBorn to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after fi
- Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
- Author: Said, Omar Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0299249549
- Language: English
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American Spy: My Secret History in the Cia, Watergate and Beyond
$35.95 Add to cartStartling revelations from the OSS, the CIA, and the Nixon White house
Think you know everything there is to know about the OSS, the Cold War, the CIA, and Watergate? Think again. In American Spy, one
- Author: Hunt, E. Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0471789828
- Language: English
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Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
$19.00 Read moreDrawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Col? have create
- Author: Jacobson, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0809026856
- Language: English
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Seven Virginians: The Men Who Shaped Our Republic
$34.95 Add to cartSeven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America’s leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American R
- Author: Boles, John B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949092
- Language: English
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Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge
$21.95 Add to cartThese are the remarkable memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938), Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases–stage robberies, trai
- Series: Western Frontier Library (Paperback) #63
- Author: Dodge, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0806131063
- Language: English
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The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
$19.99 Add to cartThe unlikely king who saved England.
Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers
- Author: Merkle, Benjamin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1595552529
- Language: English
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A Bag of Marbles
$22.00 Add to cartWhen Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out … [more below]
- Author: Joffo, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0226400697
- Language: English
