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Wander Down the Lane and Far Away: The Memories of a Small Town Girl with a Sense of Adventure
$24.95 Add to cartDottie Thomas, born in the early 20th century, lived an extraordinary life…
…filled with Stardust as she wandered down the lane and far away from the small towns of her youth, and became a citizen
- Author: Thomas Kole, Dorothy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991534819
- Language: English
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The History of Music in Fifty Instruments
$24.95 Read more“Although the title makes it sound like a reference book, it is so much more than that. The style of writing is engaging and informative. The layout is attractive, with beautiful illustrations, photo
- Author: Wilkinson, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 23 2026
- ISBN10: 022810341X
- Language: English
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
$21.00 Add to cartOne of the Washington Post’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024
“Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.” —Louis- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397839
- Language: English
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The People’s War: Forgotten Voices from World War Two
$47.99 Read more“There was a German bomber flying right towards us – a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber pointing his machine gun a
- Author: Willis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1785949004
- Language: English
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck’s classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period… [more below]
- Author: Shattuck, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704150
- Language: English
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The Journal of H?l?ne Berr: A Young Jewish Woman’s Life in Occupied Paris
$17.99 Read more“At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical document” SIMONE WEIL
From April 1942 to March 1944, H?- Author: Berr, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1906694192
- Language: English
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine’s Account of the Last Battle of World War II
$27.00 Add to cartPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion
- Author: Leckie, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0140173897
- Language: English
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To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
$24.00 Add to cartRevamped from its original “double album” version of 350 pages into this unique “remix,” To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In spare, jazzlike- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2005
- ISBN10: 037571023X
- Language: English
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Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson
$39.99 Add to cartAn engaging investigation of how thirteen key Enlightenment figures shaped the concept of race, from the acclaimed author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely.
Over the course of the eighteenth c- Author: Curran, Andrew S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1635422248
- Language: English
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
$34.00 Add to cartNobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious
In- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217287772
- Language: English
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The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World
$30.00 Add to cartA compelling dual biography of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the 20th century.
Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle were thrown tog- Author: Vinen, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668064847
- Language: English
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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestsel… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668056925
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
$35.99 Add to cartOver the last few decades, and especially in the last ten years, our understanding of slavery has been transformed by the work of many talented scholars. We have learned a great deal about the actions
- Author: Rood, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1631498371
- Language: English
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Carnivore
$18.99 Add to cartAmid ferocious fighting that many times nearly took his life, Sergeant First Class Dillard “C. J.” Johnson–one of the most decorated soldiers in the history of the legendary 3rd Infantry Division–an
- Author: Johnson, Dillard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062288393
- Language: English
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Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
$17.00 Add to cartWhether viewed as extreme skepticism or enlightened common sense, the writings of Berkeley are a major influence on modern philosophy. Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was one of the great British empirica… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Berkeley, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 05 1988
- ISBN10: 0140432930
- Language: English
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong
$20.00 Add to cartA radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business–what it is for and how it works
“A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism.”–Andrew Hil- Author: Kay, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300285507
- Language: English
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Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway
$39.95 Add to cartThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers’s magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach ha… [more below]
- Author: Meyers, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185094
- Language: English
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
$26.00 Add to cart* A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a t- Author: de Hamel, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0525559434
- Language: English
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The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World
$39.50 Add to cartA bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene–the killing age.
We are used to speakin- Author: Crais, Clifton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827410
- Language: English
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Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During Wo
$33.00 Add to cartAn untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American-Japanese contacts in World War II.
In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater’s bloodiest battles, the United States- Author: Iritani, Evelyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0374261075
- Language: English
