20th Century
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Time of Silence
$16.95 Add to cartA young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel–a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with th… [more below]
- Author: MartÃn-Santos, Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896230038
- Language: English
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Maria La Divina
$17.99 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of the world’s most iconic opera singer
Maria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn’s Callas springs to life as the head
- Author: Charyn, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1954276486
- Language: English
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The Ivory City
$18.99 Add to cartThe Devil in the White City meets Pride and Prejudice in this romantic historical murder mystery set at the 1904 World’s Fair.
The St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904: A miniature city of palaces and pavil- Author: Murphy, Emily Bain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1454957824
- Language: English
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Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism by Fire
$31.99 Add to cartBetween 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324117575
- Language: English
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Our Evenings
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language” (The New York Times Book Review)
“The fin- Author: Hollinghurst, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593243080
- Language: English
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The Silver Book
$27.00 Add to cartArt, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.
It is September 1974. Two men meet in Ven- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0374618313
- Language: English
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A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore
$30.00 Add to cartA comprehensive narrative history of Mt. Rushmore, written in light of recent political controversies, and a timely retrospective for the monument’s 100th anniversary in 2025
“Well, most people want t- Author: Davis, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250285100
- Language: English
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1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy
$16.99 Add to cartWith 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his “vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America” (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not o
- Series: U.S.A. Trilogy #2
- Author: Dos Passos, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0618056823
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition
$14.95 Add to cartChe Guevara’s classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy.
Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionar- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1644211467
- Language: English
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The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
$31.99 Add to cartThe nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creat
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051175
- Language: English
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Everyone a Stranger
$18.95 Add to cartA young war widow is unwittingly drawn into a sinister web of intrigue and murder in this taut, unexpected, masterfully plotted historical thriller set in WWII-era Seattle, where the enemy may be clos… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1496738527
- Language: English
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The Quiet Travels of Marjorie
$14.99 Add to cartMarjorie Valdez doesn’t get lost- she just happens to find herself traveling between times.
But on the edge of thirty and being laid off after moving to the South for a job, her future does seem
- Author: Blatecky, Paris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218719838
- Language: English
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
$19.00 Add to cartA power-hungry baroness with two lovers disrupts life on an Eden-like island in the Gal?pagos, and an isolated community descends into madness and murder–a true story of utopia gone wrong from New Yo… [more below]
- Author: Kahler, Abbott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0451498666
- Language: English
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Black Butterflies
$18.00 Add to cartSHORT-LISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION. A timeless story of strife and hope set during the conflict in the Balkans in the early ’90s–a searing debut novel about a woman who faces the war on h… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Priscilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593688031
- Language: English
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
$18.99 Add to cartThe Day Lincoln Was Shot is a gripping, minute-by-minute account of April 14, 1865: the day President Abraham Lincoln was tragically assassinated.
It chronicles the movements of Lincoln and his assassi
- Author: Bishop, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0062290606
- Language: English
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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
$35.00 Add to cartA major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II–tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia
In the We- Author: Hellbeck, Jochen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593657381
- Language: English
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Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
$19.95 Add to cartConjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Viol… [more below]
- Author: Stillman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0299193942
- Language: English
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The Salvage
$17.99 Add to cartIt is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a trailblazing marine archaeologist, has been called to Cairnroch, a small island off the east coast of Scotland. A Victorian shipwreck, dragged from arctic waters, holds… [more below]
- Author: Salam, Anbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1963108477
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$24.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and sti- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 069125558X
- Language: English
