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Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
$19.00 Add to cartNational Jewish Book Award finalist and one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2024
A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time–from journalist, poet and su- Author: Debreczeni, József
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397189
- Language: English
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Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America
$29.95 Add to cartThroughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that th… [more below]
- Author: McPhee, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 149308805X
- Language: English
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World of Tolkien Seven-Book Boxed Set
$100.00 Add to cartThis striking collection of seven books with specially designed spines and illustrated page edges encompasses the myriad lands and inhabitants of Middle-earth.
Discover the vast and enchanting world o- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1792
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1667212214
- Language: English
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The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the Present
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, toleran… [more below]
- Author: Hitchcock, William I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0385497997
- Language: English
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
$19.00 Add to cartIn an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment-an extraordina
- Author: Himmelfarb, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2005
- ISBN10: 1400077222
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy
$35.00 Add to cartA renowned scholar traces the evolution of modern political philosophy.
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control is a bold interpretation of centuries of intellectual revolutions. Based on Harvey C. Mans- Author: Mansfield, Harvey Claflin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0674298853
- Language: English
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The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945
$19.00 Add to cartThe Boys’ Crusade is the great historian Paul Fussell’s unflinching and unforgettable account of the American infantryman’s experiences in Europe during World War II. Based in part on the author’s own… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974883
- Language: English
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Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War: The Movement to Stop the War on Terror
$35.00 Add to cartAn original history of the popular movement against the War on Terror–the greatest case of “we told you so” in modern political history.
Just after 9/11, President George W. Bush climbed the rubble- Author: Varon, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827682
- Language: English
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Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology
$40.00 Add to cartTrue accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th century.
The extraordinary women featured in Intrepid Women defied early twentieth-century conventions to c
- Author: Nicholson, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246509
- Language: English
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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
$20.00 Add to cartOn December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo–and not a tr… [more below]
- Author: Hicks, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0345466659
- Language: English
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Trilog?a de la Noche: La Noche, El Alba, El D?a (Memorias) / The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and Day (a Memoir)
$14.95 Add to cartTrilog?a esencial dentro de la literatura del Holocausto.
Un adolescente en los campos de exterminio nazis (La noche), el posterior periodo de reflexi?n en Palestina (El alba) y la historia de amor en
- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 6073930011
- Language: Spanish
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American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
$32.00 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam’s place in America’s self-image
How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation?- Author: Appy, Christian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128345
- Language: English
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The War That Made the Middle East: World War I and the End of the Ottoman Empire
$32.00 Add to cartA new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle East
The Ottoman Empire’s collapse at- Author: Aksakal, Mustafa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691262497
- Language: English
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No One’s Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There’s Nowhere Else to Turn
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. As contagions spring up around the world… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0306835185
- Language: English
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New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
$27.00 Add to cartNo period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Britain
- Author: Brigden, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001252
- Language: English
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On Both Sides of the Wall: A Resistance Fighter’s Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto
$29.00 Add to cartThe essential new edition of one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, On Both Sides of the Wall, which recounts one woman’s harrowing experiences as a c… [more below]
- Author: Meed, Vladka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544104
- Language: English
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Syria: A Modern History
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark new history of Syria, a country forged in conflict, cursed by civil war and dictatorship, and pivotal to the future of the Middle East
Modern Syria has seen violence, repression, and autoc- Author: Neep, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608127
- Language: English
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Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
$33.00 Add to cartFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dik?tter, a commanding new history of China’s path to Communism.
The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in th- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1639733973
- Language: English
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The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy
$35.00 Add to cartFor fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it
On August 20, 1940, Leon T- Author: Ireland, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593187105
- Language: English
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Kent State: An American Tragedy
$19.99 Add to cartOn May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taun
- Author: Vandemark, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116854
- Language: English
