Harper Perennial
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Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Plot to Kill Fdr, Churchill, and Stalin
$20.99 Add to cart“A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history.” — Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles
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- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0062872907
- Language: English
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The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a member of Parliament and best-selling author of The Places in Between, an exploration of the Marches–the borderland between England and Scotland–and the political turmoil and vivid lives that
- Author: Stewart, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745651
- Language: English
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartFor anyone who enjoys reading memoirs–or is thinking about writing one–this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.
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- Author: Baker, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0395901502
- Language: English
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Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
$24.99 Add to cartPublished in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words–the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician
- Author: Thatcher, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0062012347
- Language: English
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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
$19.99 Add to cart“A tour de force. . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker’s music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives.” — Washington Post
A stunning portrait of Charli
- Author: Crouch, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062005618
- Language: English
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Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“A delightful look at all the little things that make major league baseball a subtle spectacle.” —Seattle Times
In his classic tribute to America’s pastime, political comm
- Author: Will, George F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0061999814
- Language: English
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
$19.99 Add to cartOne month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee’s harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln’s assassination just f
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0060899689
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII
$19.99 Read moreA timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy–using
- Author: Young, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0062936743
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of a Transformation
$17.99 Add to cartThe poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Like Dreamers–a coming-of-age story about a traumatic family history, radical poli
- Author: Halevi, Yossi Klein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0062362321
- Language: English
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The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
$16.99 Add to cart“Splendid… Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation.” –Boston Globe
“Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for t
- Author: Baxter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061998540
- Language: English
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The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
$19.99 Add to cart“You’llnever think of bees, their keepers, or the fruits (and nuts) of their laborsthe same way again.” –Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of Lobsters
Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus t
- Author: Nordhaus, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 006187325X
- Language: English
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No Way Down
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ru
- Author: Bowley, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061834793
- Language: English
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Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
$15.99 Add to cart“First-class narrative history that can stand with everything Steven Ambrose wrote. . . . Achorn’s description of the utter insanity that was barehanded baseball is vivid and alive.” —Boston Globe
“A
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061825875
- Language: English
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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers
$18.99 Add to cartIn The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washing… [more below]
- Author: Fleming, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061139130
- Language: English
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
$15.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.
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- Author: Cooper, Anderson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0061136689
- Language: English
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Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy
$20.99 Add to cartBestselling author of Love’s Executioner and The Gift of Therapy, psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom probes further into the mysteries of the therapeutic encounter in this entertaining and thoughtful col
- Author: Yalom, Irvin D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0060958383
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Heart: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartA new volume of poems by the award-winning author of October Palace.
- Author: Hirshfield, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060951699
- Language: English
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Simple & Direct
$15.99 Add to cartA fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one’s style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revisi
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2001
- ISBN10: 60937238
- Language: English
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The Thurber Carnival
$18.99 Add to cart“An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
James Thurber’s unique ability to c
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 60932872
- Language: English
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After: Poems
$17.99 Add to cart“Jane Hirshfield is one of our finest, most memorable contemporary poets.” –David Baker, The American Poet
“Hirshfield’s poems . . . send ripples across the reflecting pool of our collective conscious
- Author: Hirshfield, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0060779195
- Language: English
