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By: Trocmé, André
The Memoirs of Andr? Trocm?: The Pastor Who Rescued Jews
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartA unique addition to the literature of ethical action during the Holocaust. . . . Trocm?’s story, available in English here for the first time, teaches us how to act when we are sure of nothing. —Kir
- Author: Trocmé, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1636081592
- Language: English
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Hidden Lives: Stories from Child Survivors of the Holocaust
$35.95HardcoverAdd to cartOne and a half million Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust. The Nazis’ goal to eradicate the entire Jewish population in Europe included children–from infants to teenagers–who were target
- Author: Goldstein, Rachelle L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1772604429
- Language: English
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Chasing CHI: The Fbi’s Groundbreaking Pursuit of China’s Most Prolific Spy Family
$39.95HardcoverAdd to cartEspionage, betrayal, and the FBI’s historic victory–this is the true story of the hunt for Chi Mak and his spy ring.
It began as furtive tip, grew to fevered investigation, and climaxed with midnigh- Author: Gaylord, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1493091964
- Language: English
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By: Plain, Gill
Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie’s writing l… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Plain, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0198863748
- Language: English
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By: Holmes, Richard
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartIn this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0307379671
- Language: English
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Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice
$39.95HardcoverAdd to cartThe remarkable life of one of the twentieth century’s great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal Court
On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before- Series: Democratic Ideals in Global Perspective
- Author: Gordon, Gregory S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 081395309X
- Language: English
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By: Holden, Wendy
Born Survivors
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cart“With remarkable detail gleaned from a wealth of research, journalist and author Holden relates the three women’s unforgettable journey from their imprisonment in ghettos to their arrival at Auschwitz
- Author: Holden, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 006237026X
- Language: English
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By: Liu, Yi-Ling
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn indelible, deeply reported human narrative of contemporary China in which the country’s carefully regulated internet offers a lens into the broader national tension between freedom and control
In t- Author: Liu, Yi-Ling
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593491858
- Language: English
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By: Tobin, Greg
Good Pope PB
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cart“John XXIII was, in the best possible sense, a revolutionary–a Pope of modernization who kept in continuity with the church’s past, yet made even the most enlightened of his 20th century predecessors
- Author: Tobin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0062089412
- Language: English
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By: Dalrymple, Sam
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
$39.99HardcoverAdd to cartAs recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire.” I
- Author: Dalrymple, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123788
- Language: English
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By: Schuhrke, Jeff
No Neutrals There: Us Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians.
US trade unionists are
- Author: Schuhrke, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904558
- Language: English
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Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities
$35.00PaperbackAdd to cartA two part book reimagining dark matter and the dark
Transtraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni’Ja Whitson’s groundbreaking performance pieces, blending African Diasporic practi
- Author: Whitson, Sage Ni’ja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501999
- Language: English
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By: Morrison, Toni
Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
$32.00HardcoverAdd 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593802748
- Language: English
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By: Sachs, Harvey
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year–and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compo
- Author: Sachs, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969073
- Language: English
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By: Plenel, Edwy
The Garden and the Jungle: How the West Sees the World
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cartAn award-winning French journalist’s far-ranging critique of Europe’s betrayal of universal values and equal rights as war and right-wing populism spread worldwide, with a new introduction for U.S. re… [more below]
- Author: Plenel, Edwy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 163542559X
- Language: English
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Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism
$27.95HardcoverAdd to cartA survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen letters to the Red Scare and beyond.
Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and end
- Author: Leonard, Aaron J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978841809
- Language: English
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We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartJean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre’s restless intel… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1590174933
- Language: English
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By: Carroll, Henry
The 1990s: A Visual History of the Decade
$60.00HardcoverAdd to cartA visual celebration of a seminal decade. As the Cold War ended and a new millennium approached, grunge, hip–hop, and rave exploded in popularity as teenagers and twenty–somethings searched for some
- Series: Story of a Decade #2
- Author: Carroll, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0500027374
- Language: English
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By: Frank, Anne
Diario de Anne Frank (Edici?n Ilustrada) / Diary of Anne Frank (Illustrated Edition)
$26.95HardcoverAdd to cart80. ANIVERSARIO DEL FINAL DE LA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL
Mar?a Hesse despliega su estilo inconfundible y su trazo m?s sensible para ilustrar uno de los grandes cl?sicos de la literatura universal &laqu- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 842643231X
- Language: Spanish
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By: Tomalin, Claire
Charles Dickens: A Life
$32.00PaperbackAdd to cartAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. … [more below]
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122053
- Language: English




















