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Night
$13.00 Add to cartA new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 16, 2006
- ISBN10: 0374500010
- Language: English
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Monroe Doctrine
$21.99 Add to cartA Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American Empire
President James Monroe’s 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisp- Author: Sexton, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0809069997
- Language: English
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Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War
$40.00 Add to cartFeaturing breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, Battle Lines is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War.
A collaboration between the award-winning historian Ari Kel- Author: Fetter-Vorm, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0809094746
- Language: English
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Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution
$30.99 Add to cartCombining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their c
- Author: Glatthaar, Joseph T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0809046008
- Language: English
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Empire of Signs
$18.00 Add to cartWith this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography–in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies–of Japan itself
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374522073
- Language: English
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Night
$13.00 Add to cart- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0374534756
- Language: English
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The Beats: A Graphic History
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic
- Author: Pekar, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0809016494
- Language: English
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Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best
$22.00 Read moreThe success of John Henrik Clarke’s American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, w
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0374523541
- Language: English
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The Dwarf
$18.00 Read more“I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his
- Author: Lagerkvist, Par
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1958
- ISBN10: 0374521352
- Language: English
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
$20.00 Add to cartThe astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2002
- ISBN10: 080907821X
- Language: English
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The Cartoon Introduction to Statistics
$23.00 Add to cartThe Cartoon Introduction to Statistics is the most imaginative and accessible introductory statistics course you’ll ever take. Employing an irresistible cast of dragon-riding Vikings, lizard-throwing
- Author: Klein, Grady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0809033593
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
$18.00 Add to cartThe age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer, the award-winning graphic-novel editor b
- Author: Helfer, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0809095041
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$19.00 Add to cartThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces “In
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374521360
- Language: English
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Shirley Jackson’s the Lottery: The Authorized Graphic Adaptation
$19.00 Read moreWinner of the 2017 Solli s Comics Festival’s Best Adult Graphic Novel
Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” continues to thrill and unsettle readers nea
The classic short story–now in full color- Author: Hyman, Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 809066505
- Language: English
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The Pleasure of the Text
$17.00 Add to cartWhat is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute “perhaps for the first time in the hi
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374521603
- Language: English
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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
$18.00 Read moreHow partisan politics lead to the Civil War
What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this bril- Author: Holt, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0809044390
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$18.00 Read moreThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces “In
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374521360
- Language: English
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Warning to the West
$18.00 Add to cartAlexander Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West includes the texts of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s three speeches in the United States in the summer of 1975, his first major public addresses since hi
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0374513341
- Language: English
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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
$25.99 Add to cartRome’s genial new book . . . brings to life another era. —Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay rit- Author: Rome, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0865477744
- Language: English
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Trotsky
$27.99 Add to cartTrotsky was a hero to some, a ruthless demon to others. To Stalin, he was such a threat that he warranted murder by pickax. This polarizing figure set up a world conflict that lasted through the twent
- Author: Geary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 29 2009
- ISBN10: 0809095084
- Language: English
