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Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust
$35.00 Add to cartThe first account of Jewish children’s flight from Nazi Germany to France–and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime
At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Je- Author: Hobson Faure, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 030026996X
- Language: English
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia
$16.95 Add to cart“In quiet, lovely prose, Julie Brill has delivered a powerful reminder of why our stories-personal, familial, historical-are so crucial. A moving excavation of a family story.” –Menachem Kaiser, autho
- Series: Holocaust Heritage
- Author: Brill, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9493418057
- Language: English
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
$30.00 Add to cartFor readers of Say Nothing and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the epic true story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo–grandmothers who fought to find their stolen grandchildren during Argentina’s … [more below]
- Author: Gilliland, Haley Cohen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1668017148
- Language: English
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Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity
$28.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning journalist Joseph Lee, a sweeping, personal exploration of Indigenous identity and the challenges facing Indigenous people around the world.
Before Martha’s Vineyard became one of t- Author: Lee, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1668087251
- Language: English
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Your Name Is Ren?e: Ruth Kapp Hartz’s Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France
$16.98 Add to cartIn Nazi-occupied France in 1941, four-year-old Ruth Kapp learns that it is dangerous to use her own name. “Remember,” her older cousin Jeannette warns her, “your name is Renee and you are French!”
A de… [more below]- Author: Cretzmeyer, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0195154991
- Language: English
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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love.
It’s 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of hi- Author: Lin, Jeremy Atherton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 316545791
- Language: English
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A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust
$35.00 Add to cartAn eminent historian of the Holocaust examines why Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, though faced with mounting evidence of the Nazi extermination of Jews, were reluctant to speak out against the atro
- Author: Breitman, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674293649
- Language: English
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Quarantining Hate
$18.00 Add to cartQuarantining Hate delves into a grandfather’s secret and how the author came to terms with it. Her grandfather was responsible for the murder of thousands of Jews during World War II and was never hel
- Author: Taber, Kerrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987957677
- Language: English
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Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard
$32.00 Add to cartDrawing on unprecedented archival and family access, Cooler Than Cool: The Life of Elmore Leonard, is the first comprehensive biography of the master American crime writer, author of witty, gritty bes
- Author: Kushins, C. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 63306867
- Language: English
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Down on the Farm, Way Back When
$23.99 Add to cartDad would warn me to stay back from the barn door when he let the cows out for the first time at the end of a long winter. After taking a few steps outside, you might see a mature cow do something you… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: January 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1038317932
- Language: English
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Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex
$35.00 Add to cartWe take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel
- Author: Cleves, Rachel Hope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509553630
- Language: English
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
$19.99 Add to cartThe “remarkable…inspiring” (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg–a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Pol… [more below]
- Author: White, Elizabeth B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1982189134
- Language: English
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I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column
$24.95 Add to cartA fascinating collection of questions and answers–about courtship, marriage, love, and sex–from a seventeenth-century periodical
The Athenian Mercury–a one-page, two-sided periodical published in- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0691253994
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Primera Guerra Mundial (the World War I Book)
$29.99 Add to cartDescubre las batallas, las t?cticas militares y los momentos m?s decisivos de la Primera Guerra Mundial,
Desde las crecientes tensiones entre las principales potencias europeas y el asesinato del arc- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 593847946
- Language: Spanish
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
$28.00 Add to cart“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”–Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer
“… [more below]- Author: Stanley, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0525511830
- Language: English
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Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe
$16.99 Add to cartIn this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe’s history: its transformation from war-torn battlefield to peaceful, prosperous society. For ce… [more below]
- Author: Sheehan, James J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0547086334
- Language: English
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Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol … [more below]
- Author: Dash, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0609807161
- Language: English
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Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II
$35.00 Add to cartA powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers
In popular memory, the Second World War was a- Author: Chamberlin, Paul Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619269
- Language: English
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Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
$28.00 Add to cartThe first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Hanley, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272359
- Language: English
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Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
$32.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long-lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship pac- Author: Cockerell, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0374609268
- Language: English
