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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
$35.99 Add to cartThe rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputatio
- Author: Gilbert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867080
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$34.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Me… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014354
- Language: English
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Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property
$34.95 Add to cartExiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponized
During the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, business- Author: Raz, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804295159
- Language: English
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Year 2000: The Inside Story of Y2K Panic and the Greatest Cooperative Effort Ever
$22.95 Add to cartYear 2000 shares the untold story of the actors operating on the global stage responsible for managing computer hardware and software for Year 2000 compliance, thus keeping national infrastructures, f
- Author: James, Nancy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085611
- Language: English
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Pillars of the American Century: FDR, Reagan, and the World They Shaped
$18.95 Add to cartFranklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were the two most consequential and successful Presidents of the 20th Century. Most casual observers today think of them as polar opposites in their views on gover
- Author: Bumgardner, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893094114
- Language: English
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Also Here
$18.99 Add to cartAs a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust-just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie … [more below]
- Author: Randel, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1948954974
- Language: English
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Edges of Ailey
$65.00 Add to cartA revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey
“A rich, multitudinous window into the world of the choreographer Alvin Ailey. . . . It does everything but d- Author: Edwards, Adrienne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278845
- Language: English
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The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
$28.95 Add to cart“A lively medical, scientific, and economic history.”–Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
“A timely reminder that the current greed-based healthcare system
Best Nonfiction Books of 2024, Kirkus Reviews- Author: Gevirtz, Karen Bloom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0520409914
- Language: English
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Out from the Shadows: Growing up with Holocaust Survivor Parents
$16.95 Add to cartGrowing up, the author and his family constantly lived under the shadow of the Holocaust. There was persistent tension at home. He was frequently told: “Finish your dinner. We didn’t have food like th
- Series: Holocaust Heritage
- Author: Handler, Willie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9493322882
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
$30.00 Add to cartA witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.
In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Sov- Author: Strausbaugh, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703340
- Language: English
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Elsie’s Tune: One Last Song to Overcome
$21.99 Add to cart“She took the record out and put it on. As it started to play, she simply didn’t know if good memories would come back. Maybe bad memories would overtake them. Whichever way she felt, she just knew th
- Author: Watson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890410399
- Language: English
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Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
$29.95 Add to cartAn authoritative, myth-piercing study of the world-famous explorer George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924.
In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest i- Author: Conefrey, Mick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366350
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle ?poque
$35.00 Add to cartA top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle ?poque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacr?-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be … [more below]
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541647491
- Language: English
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His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine
$18.99 Add to cartFrom historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall o… [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1982168307
- Language: English
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in
- Author: Kim, Sj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064765
- Language: English
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Kent State: An American Tragedy
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066253
- Language: English
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Vigdis: A Book about the World’s First Female President
$19.95 Add to cart★ “In this winningly informal introduction, a budding young writer sits with Vigd?s to enjoy her famous Bessasta?ir cookies and chat about her early years…” – Booklist (STARRED review)
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- Author: Flygenring, Rán
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3039640410
- Language: English
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The CIA: An Imperial History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “superb” (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire
As World War II end- Author: Wilford, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 154164591X
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$27.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006978
- Language: English
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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
$18.00 Add to cartDrawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies
Winner of the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize – A Fi- Author: Garton Ash, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276729
- Language: English
