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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
$27.00 Add to cartACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST – 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER – 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES – BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN A… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Gary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 110197107X
- Language: English
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The Journey of a Hidden Child
$17.95 Add to cartBelgium, 1941. Rosa and Charles Russ give their newborn son, Jean-Pierre, to their non-Jewish friends for safekeeping; they are not aware that the couple is involved in espionage for the British, putt
- Series: Jewish Children in the Holocaust
- Author: Pila, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9493276546
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$32.99 Add to cartEqual parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest th
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0063371405
- Language: English
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
$34.00 Add to cartA thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time–from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Opera… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014279
- Language: English
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Irena’s Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival
$28.00 Read moreWeaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena’s Gift is the captivating account of one woman’s personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give voice to her family’s secret war-torn history.
From the gli- Author: Kirsten, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543655
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript
$19.95 Add to cartPublished for the first time ever, the first draft of The Blue Castle exactly as L. M. Montgomery originally wrote it, with critical context from a leading Montgomery scholar.
Available for the first
- Author: Montgomery, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 177471275X
- Language: English
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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
$28.99 Read more“I’ve never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism.” –Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of B… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1668056917
- Language: English
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What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why)
$29.12 Read moreThe first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen’s own readers
- Author: Ford, Susan Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1350416711
- Language: English
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Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake Ontario
$24.99 Read moreAmerica’s Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees
During the height of the second World War, at the order of President Roosevelt, Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York housed 982 refugees, rescued
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Allen, Ann Callaghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155950
- Language: English
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
$20.99 Add to cartNamed a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for No… [more below]
- Author: Cumming, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1982181753
- Language: English
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Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
$25.00 Add to cartA sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II
“When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling.”–Ian W. To- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 644
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276788
- Language: English
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Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush
$17.00 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by Sin?ad Gleeson.
Detailing everything from Bush’s upbringing to her early exposition of t
- Series: Omnibus Remastered #1
- Author: Thomson, Graeme
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1915841356
- Language: English
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For God, Glory, and Gold: Spanish Exploration of La Florida and the Mainland: 1513-1543
$11.95 Add to cart- Author: Macdougald, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1662951892
- Language: English
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A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism
$69.99 Add to cartPlato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel.These names and the philosophies associated with them ring through the minds of every student and scholar of philosophy. And in their search for knowledg
- Author: Evans, C. Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0830852220
- Language: English
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Timelines of World History
$19.99 Read moreA gorgeously illustrated guide to the history of the world, from wars and revolutions to ground-breaking inventions, discoveries and artistic movements. With over 3,500 key dates from the Stone Age to… [more below]
- Author: Chisholm, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1835402461
- Language: English
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Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
$25.00 Read more“Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop
Alice Notley, the author of m
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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With Many Miracles: A Memoir of Holocaust Survival in Belgium
$16.99 Add to cartOn April 27, 1944, Polish-born Israel Cappell was awakened by the dreadful knock on the door that he and his family had feared since they began to hide from the Nazis in their adopted city of Brussels
- Author: Cappell, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218346003
- 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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Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia
$35.00 Add to cartThe first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion
“A fascinating and highly informative narrative.”–Art- Author: Karatnycky, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0300269463
- Language: English
