Cultural Region/Mid-Atlantic
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The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
$29.95 Add to cartBased on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff d
- Author: Medoff, Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 827615191
- Language: English
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111 Places in Women’s History in Washington That You Must Not Miss
$23.95 Add to cart- The ultimate insider’s guide to women’s history in Washington, DC for locals and experienced travelers
- Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
- Part of the internat
- Author: Calogera, Kaitlin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 31 2022
- ISBN10: 3740815906
- Language: English
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Into the Wilderness
$26.00 Add to cartWeaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati’s epic novel sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into a breathtaking story of love and survival in a land of savage beauty.
It is Decemb- Series: Wilderness #1
- Author: Donati, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0385342578
- Language: English
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What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
$7.99 Add to cart“Four score and seven years ago…” begins Abraham Lincoln’s beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So … [more below]
- Series: What Was…
- Author: O’Connor, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0448462869
- Language: English
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The Bronx Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
$27.95 Add to cartA neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City’s northern borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody Knows
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City–some six thousa- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0691166951
- Language: English
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Tropic of Capricorn
$18.00 Add to cartBanned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank po… [more below]
- Series: Miller, Henry
- Author: Miller, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802151825
- Language: English
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The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom
$32.95 Add to cartThe personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Rosenblatt, Albert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438492642
- Language: English
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Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)
$27.95 Add to cartDamon DiMarco’s Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition), eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in American history through the voices of the people who were … [more below]
- Author: DiMarco, Damon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1595801022
- Language: English
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Election
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Tracy Flick Can’t Win comes a darkly hilarious novel about a high school election that brings out the worst in everyone–the basis for t… [more below]
- Author: Perrotta, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0425167283
- Language: English
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Oreo
$14.95 Add to cartOreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysteriou… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Fran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0811223221
- Language: English
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New York Offbeat Walks
$19.99 Add to cartThis is NOT your typical guide–this book will show you the quirkier side of Manhattan. See where the slave market was in Colonial Manhattan, learn who the streets were named after, visit the site of
- Author: Millar, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1940842557
- Language: English
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Inside Outside Upside Down
$9.99 Add to cartIllus. in full color. A bear explores a carton on a truck and gets carried away. By the time he has returned, the reader will be exposed to the concepts of -inside, outside, upside down.-
- Series: Bright & Early Books(r)
- Author: Berenstain, Stan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394811429
- Language: English
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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
$19.00 Add to cartIn this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tin… [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0307279278
- Language: English
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Ghost Stories of New Jersey
$12.95 Add to cartHome to more than just tollbooths, The Sopranos and Bruce Springsteen, the Garden State has always been a haven for all things weird and supernatural. With accounts detailing the activities of the inf… [more below]
- Series: Ghost Stories
- Author: Mott, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 9768200162
- Language: English
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When You Reach Me: (Newbery Medal Winner)
$17.99 Add to cart“Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda’s favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of ‘life, death, and the beauty of it al
- Author: Stead, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 14 2009
- ISBN10: 385737424
- Language: English
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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
$30.00 Add to cartThis first volume of Shelby Foote’s classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Foote, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: November 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394746236
- Language: English
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Land of the Oneidas: Central New York State and the Creation of America, from Prehistory to the Present
$33.95 Add to cartPresents the history of central New York State from the Ice Age to the present day.
- Author: Koch, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1438492715
- Language: English
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A Feather on the Breath of God
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, A Feather on the Breath of God, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between langu
- Author: Nunez, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1250816238
- Language: English
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The Age of Innocence
$9.94 Add to cartThe Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton’s most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540012
- Language: English
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Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
$19.99 Read moreThe Pulitzer Prize winning modern classic of two Cuban musician brothers during the mambo-filled nights of 50’s New York from literary trailblazer, Oscar Hijuelos.
It’s 1949 and two young Cuban musi- Author: Hijuelos, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1538740613
- Language: English
