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7 Parables for the People
$13.95 Add to cart7 Parables For The People is a gritty, provocative, aggressive and raw verse novel about the forces of evil that are currently gaining momentum inside the body politic of these United States. It is an
- Author: Bland, Shawn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798897856701
- Language: English
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck’s classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period… [more below]
- Author: Shattuck, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704150
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-cen… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593466713
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of AI: The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It
$16.95 Add to cartSince Alan Turing first posed the question “Can machines think?” artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Walsh, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030891
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$24.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and sti- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 069125558X
- Language: English
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy–And Why It Failed
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before hi
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250790573
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Add to cartIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
$8.95 Read moreSimone Arnold is an ordinary French schoolgirl, spirited and stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding complete conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. School officials … [more below]
- Author: Liebster, Simone Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1937188000
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Add to cartA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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The Professor’s House
$9.99 Add to cart‘I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuries’
The Professor’s House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Pete- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0198861354
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
$22.99 Read moreA first-person historical record of the Manhattan Project, and the events leading to the birth of the Atomic bomb, as told by the researchers, scientists, and developers intimately involved in its cre… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Cynthia C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0762471271
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
$20.00 Add to cartIn a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that … [more below]
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078679
- Language: English
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The Second World War
$28.99 Add to cartA masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world’s- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0316023752
- Language: English
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Doctor Faustus
$15.99 Read more‘Why must I feel that almost all–no, all–of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?’
Adrian Leverk?hn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthro- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0198867727
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$53.00 Add to cartJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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The Fate of the Generals: Macarthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines
$21.00 Add to cart“One of the very best World War II books in many years…A great read.” –General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA * “Fans of Unbroken will love this book.” –Doug Stanton
I- Author: Horn, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1668010089
- Language: English
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Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
$60.00 Add to cartFrom ancient Egypt to today, enjoy a sweeping survey of world history through its most memorable words in this completely revised and updated nineteenth edition.
More than 150 years after its initial- Author: Bartlett, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1504
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316375306
- Language: English
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
$18.00 Read more“Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work.”– from the Foreword by Fran?ise Verg?.
What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonial
- Author: Abbas, Nuzhat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 177525674X
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$20.00 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Po… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188534
- Language: English
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These Truths: A History of the United States
$24.99 Add to cartWritten in elegiac prose, Lepore’s groundbreaking investigation places truth itself–a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence–at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on t
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1324130768
- Language: English
