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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
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Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$30.00 Add to cartA vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, tracing its life over the last century
D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of th
- Author: Cuthbertson, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0300266375
- Language: English
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Denial: Holocaust History on Trial
$19.99 Add to cartNow a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson.
“A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import. ” — Jewish Week
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- Author: Lipstadt, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062659650
- Language: English
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88-Hours War: India-Pakistan War of May 2025
$29.95 Read moreA detailed account of the May 2025 India-Pakistan War, its high-tech strikes, escalation, and lasting geopolitical consequences.
Often downplayed or misrepresented, the short but intense military confr… [more below]
- Series: Asia@War
- Author: Cooper, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 20 2026
- ISBN10: 180672085X
- Language: English
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Risk, Resilience, and Redemption: A Miraculous Holocaust Survival Story
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is it like to have lived through six years of Holocaust slave labor and survive?
Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were torn from their families and communities and cast into Hell… Adolf Hitl
- Author: Baker, Frank W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998698132
- Language: English
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Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower’s Campaign for Peace
$19.99 Add to cartA lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956–a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assa
- Author: Von Tunzelmann, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0062249258
- Language: English
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Iran and the Revolution: A History
$35.00 Add to cartA major new history of revolutionary Iran, from the 1940s to the present
Iran’s revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. B
- Author: Katouzian, Homa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0300282885
- Language: English
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The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal
$35.00 Add to cartThe true story of one of impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s most famous paintings, and an astonishing exploration of the rise and fall of a prominent French Jewish family from the Belle epoq… [more below]
- Author: Ostler, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1668232480
- Language: English
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Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska
$29.00 Add to cartThe stunning true story of a double homicide in the vibrant native Alaskan I?upiat community at the arctic edge of the United States–written by the public defender at its center
Rebecca Wright is a d- Author: Stevens, Rebecca Wright
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1640097716
- Language: English
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The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Reformation transformed Europe and left an indelible mark on the modern world. But what actually was the Reformation and how should it be defi- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Marshall, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 0198859066
- Language: English
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The Underground Railroad: An Enthralling Overview of the Secret Path to Freedom for African Americans during the 19th Century
$26.99 Add to cartEmbark on a profound journey through the veiled pathways of hope and resilience with The Underground Railroad.
This book pierces the shroud of myths surrounding one of history’s most clandestine escape
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: May 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887653594
- Language: English
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol. III: Louis XIV to the Brink of World War I, A.D. 1661 – 1914
$49.99 Add to cartThis third volume of Conrad Black’s magnificent series opens with the assumption of direct rule by Louis XIV of France and covers the great sweep of history with the rise of Russia, the decline of the
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1966833202
- Language: English
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Dirtbag Dreams: A History of Mountain, Ultra and Trail Running
$29.95 Add to cartThe first book to share the untold story of this unique sport, from its origins in the Victorian era to the present day.
Over the past two decades, mountain, ultra and trail running has experienced a- Author: Morris, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1526190184
- Language: English
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Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling
$24.95 Add to cartAll of American literature is a tragedy. What we’re living through now isn’t a tragedy, however – it’s a horror novel. Why bother writing when the world’s on fire?
Rising authoritarianism. Covid. Inf- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765123218
- Language: English
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A Singular Modernity
$21.95 Add to cartThe concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson–perhaps the mos… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1781680221
- Language: English
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Mein Kampf
$14.99 Read more- Author: Hitler, Adolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: February 28 2016
- ISBN10: 8172345429
- Language: English
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Cynthia Hart’s Victoriana Wall Calendar 2027
$17.99 Read moreBring the richness, elegance, and charm of the Victorian era into 2027 with this calendar of lush, vibrant collages.
- A STYLISH YEAR: Each month’s design is carefully curated by expert designer Cynthi
- Author: Hart, Cynthia
- Binding:
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 11 2026
- ISBN10: 1523533250
- Language: English
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Modern Military Aircraft: Highly-Detailed Gatefold Artworks
$16.99 Add to cartModern Military Aircraft features more than 100 of the most important and influential military aircraft serving today, ranging from the latest F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter to the Sukhoi Su-27 Fla
- Series: Mini Encyclopedias
- Author: Ward, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1838866086
- Language: English
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Summer of Freedom: How 1945 Changed the World
$29.99 Read moreThis colorful post-World War II history brings to life a crucial yet understudied period, through the eyes of both major figures and ordinary people.
It was a summer like no one had ever experienced:- Author: Hilmes, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1635425417
- Language: English
