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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945
$28.00 Add to cartDestined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel’s Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloqu… [more below]
- Series: I Will Bear Witness #2
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756973
- Language: English
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The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
$18.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States
“A genre-bending work of reportage, memoir, and history” —The New- Author: Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250903181
- Language: English
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The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary West
$120.00 Add to cartA compelling, resource-rich history of the modern West–from the Renaissance to the present–designed for students and lifelong learners alike, and grounded in the enduring ideals of liberty, faith, a… [more below]
- Series: Golden Thread #2
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774010
- Language: English
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Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Death and Mourning
$29.00 Add to cartThe visual history of how we deal with death – the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies – is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and trave
- Author: Gambino, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004222
- Language: English
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50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission Into the Heart of Nazi Germany
$19.99 Add to cartTwo Ordinary Americans.
Fifty Innocent Lives.
One Unforgettable Journey.In early 1939, few Americans were thinking about the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the
- Author: Pressman, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0062237489
- Language: English
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The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain
$28.00 Add to cartThe arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos
Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak- Author: Jensen, Morten Høi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300233744
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar: Charts and Observations of Natural Phenomena
$35.00 Add to cartAn immersive, beautifully illustrated revelation of Henry David Thoreau’s final project–a monthly almanac of natural phenomena.
In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new
- Author: Case, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1571311599
- Language: English
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Cuba: Una Breve Historia
$15.95 Read moreUna concisa y legible perspectiva de Cuba, revisada a fondo y escrita por cubanos para cualquier persona interesada en comprender r?pidamente la turbulenta historia del pa?s insular.
Cuba: una breve h- Author: Vilaboy, Sergio Guerra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644212110
- Language: Spanish
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Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
$28.00 Add to cartA powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost world
By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who- Author: Ziegelman, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1250284333
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
$19.99 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111275
- Language: English
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Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
$20.00 Add to cart“Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid–and despite–the horror and chaos of war… [more below]
- Author: Tram, Dang Thuy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0307347389
- Language: English
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George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she wa- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkinson, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0198864329
- Language: English
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartPopulist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk–the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most r
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105828
- Language: English
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Martha Graham Dance Company 100 Years
$75.00 Add to cart***Winner of the International Photography Award for Best Book of 2025***
A stunning photographic celebration of The Martha Graham Dance Company on its 100th anniversary, from Ken Browar and Deborah O… [more below]- Author: Browar, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0762487445
- Language: English
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Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
$29.95 Add to cartAnnemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored.
Born to a… [more below]
- Author: Rooney, Padraig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1509566295
- Language: English
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The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
$40.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE – An epic, authoritative, gripping account of the years when a new wave of revolutionaries seized the skies and the streets to hold the world for ransom
In th- Author: Burke, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0525659439
- Language: English
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The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political Family
$37.95 Add to cartThe Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter
- Author: Slaughter, Thomas P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782657
- Language: English
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Lost Synagogues of Europe: Paintings and Histories
$36.95 Add to cartLost Synagogues of Europe chronicles and recreates in vivid color paintings the life stories of nearly 80 majestic–and destroyed–European synagogues, each one a testament to the approximately 17,000… [more below]
- Author: Strongwater, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0827615698
- Language: English
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Hegel: The Essential Writings
$18.99 Add to cartHegel’s major works; dialectic; metaphysics; science; experience; philosophic truth; Absolute Spirit.
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0061318310
- Language: English
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The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
$22.00 Add to cartA spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and tra… [more below]
- Author: Sassoon, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593467116
- Language: English
