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Hawthorne’s Prophets: The Bible and the Creation of American Literature
$26.00 Read more- Author: Ellwood, Fay Elanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469505
- Language: English
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The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
$36.00 Add to cart- Author: Waller, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184424
- Language: English
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Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
$29.95 Add to cartJoe Mulhall uncovers how music has shaped resistance movements across the globe, from Irish protest songs to Apartheid South Africa to the artists in Ukraine today.
While the global history of the dic- Author: Mulhall, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1804441163
- Language: English
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The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
$24.00 Read moreThe unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics “The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths th- Author: Nichter, Luke a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280130
- Language: English
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Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
$29.99 Read moreOne of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family’s imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope.
“A deeply moving memoir, beautifu- Author: Salt, Renee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake–the most consequential natural di
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist- Author: Molesky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 030738750X
- Language: English
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, r
- Author: Adlington, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063375133
- Language: English
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Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
$32.00 Add to cartThe never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World … [more below]
- Author: Eicher, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639366423
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine Volume 7: Air War, January-December 2023
$29.95 Add to cartContinues the detailed military history of this ongoing conflict, the largest in Europe since the end of the Second World War in 1945.
Volume 7 of War in Ukraine provides a detailed account of the air … [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Cooper, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1804515795
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
$24.99 Add to cartWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the Fren
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086424
- Language: English
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
$26.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, r
- Author: Adlington, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063375168
- Language: English
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The Joyce of Everyday Life
$29.95 Read morePart of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it wa… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Irish Writers
- Author: Mahaffey, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: September 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1684485266
- Language: English
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Footnote to History: From Hungary to America. The Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor
$19.95 Add to cartThe secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his e
- Series: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII
- Author: Laszlo, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9493322858
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$28.00 Add to cartA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator a… [more below]
- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602790
- Language: English
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege- Author: Albertus, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604814
- Language: English
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Planning the Murder of Anne Boleyn
$34.95 Read moreAnne Boleyn’s downfall was driven by political machinations, religious conflict, and alliances, with little connection to her alleged crimes.
Almost 500 years have passed since the death of Anne Boleyn… [more below]
- Author: Angus, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1399031864
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network
$29.99 Add to cartThis is the definitive account of the Western world’s most powerful–but least known–intelligence alliance, which remains central to the defense of the free world in a dangerously uncertain time.
Th- Author: Kerbaj, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1454952512
- Language: English
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Debunk It! Fake News Edition: How to Stay Sane in a World of Misinformation
$14.99 Add to cartWe live in an era of misinformation, much of it spread by authority figures, including politicians, religious leaders, broadcasters, and, of course, apps and websites.
In this second edition, author J
- Author: Grant, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1942186592
- Language: English
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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
$19.95 Add to cartThe first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revo
- Author: Allen, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966289
- Language: English
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”–Dan Rather
To some- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0345455827
- Language: English
