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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
$20.00 Add to cart“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”–The Washington Post
A thrillin- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593728114
- Language: English
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the author of To Hell and Back, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II
Countless books have been written abo- Author: Kershaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122134
- Language: English
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Traitors Among Us
$25.00 Add to cartAs director of the elite Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, author Stuart Herrington was the U.S. Army’s top counterintelligence officer. In this thrilling and informative account he details one of… [more below]
- Author: Herrington, Stuart a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0156011174
- Language: English
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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
$35.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a bold, clear-eyed look at how the autocracies of China and Russia are challenging the current global o
- Author: McFaul, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0358677874
- Language: English
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
$20.00 Add to cartLogavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tole… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0812982762
- Language: English
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El Diario de Anne Frank (Novela Gr?fica) / Anne Frank’s Dairy: The Graphic Adaptation
$26.95 Add to cart“12 de junio de 1942. Espero poder confi?rtelo todo como a?n no lo he podido hacer con nadie, y espero que seas para m? un gran apoyo”.
Tras la invasi?n de Holanda, la familia Frank se ocult? de la Ge… [more below]- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525564500
- Language: Spanish
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A Short History of the Gaza Strip
$29.99 Add to cartSince October 2023, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military onslaughts in modern history on the Gaza Strip, in response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7. But Gaza had long been in
- Author: Irfan, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 132410595X
- Language: English
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The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities
$21.99 Add to cartThe Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the ancient African language of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), these explorations
- Author: Yaqob, Zara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 3112214110
- Language: English
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany–And the Spy Who Betrayed Them
$32.00 Add to cart“An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.”–Mi
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063373203
- Language: English
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Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025
$28.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed economist’s observations on four years of events that have shaped the world
In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde, renowned economist Thomas Piketty- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282753
- Language: English
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Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, phil… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0197761380
- Language: English
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Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World
$50.00 Read moreA richly illustrated look at the intersection of art and science in Renaissance Europe
Art played a pivotal role in the development of natural history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. E- Author: Libby, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271305
- Language: English
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
$37.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This gr… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217157686
- Language: English
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the most important economic documents of the 20th century
John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiat- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Keynes, John Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140188053
- Language: English
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Dark London: A Journey Through the City’s Mysterious and Macabre Underworld
$22.99 Add to cartFrom dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian s?ances and haunted houses – not far beneath London’s everyday bustle and glitter there ha
- Author: Gray, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004249
- Language: English
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WITH A NEW PREFACE – From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organ… [more below]
- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0593471202
- Language: English
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Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
$32.50 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman turns his sharp eye and meticulous storytelling to one of pop culture’s most enduring and enigmatic figures–Tupac Shakur–presenting the definitive ret
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063304570
- Language: English
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague
$27.00 Add to cart“Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me–or monsters?” asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed duri… [more below]
- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035428
- Language: English
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Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination
$35.00 Add to cartA deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, M- Author: Ball, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300258046
- Language: English
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Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
$17.95 Add to cartTOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes’s and Chris Abani’s introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations t
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142559
- Language: English
