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Vendor: Abbas Amanat
Iran: A Modern History
This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of...- $67.99
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Vendor: Bill Hayton
The Invention of China
A provocative account showing that China--and its 5,000 years of unified history--is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day. China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but China as a unified country...- $41.99
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Vendor: James Stejskal
Special Forces Berlin Lib/E: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the Us Army's Elite, 1956-1990
The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. U.S. military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the juggernaut they expected when and if a war began. The plan...- $71.99
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The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
Author: Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonISBN-13: 9798228624306Publisher: Blackstone PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2025Format: MP3 CD- $35.95
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Vendor: Barry Strauss
Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire
A new history of two centuries of Jewish revolts against the Roman Empire, drawing on recent archeological discoveries and new scholarship by leading historian Barry Strauss.Jews vs. Rome is a gripping account of one of the most momentous eras in human history: the two...- $39.99
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Vendor: Karen J. Johnson
Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice: A History of Christians in Action
Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice is a beacon of hope for understanding America's complex racial landscape. Through rigorous historical research and compelling narrative storytelling, this book illuminates the past's intersections of Christianity, race, and place, offering profound insights for today's world. Beyond history, Ordinary...- $49.99
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Vendor: Tim Brady
A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark's Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII
August 25, 1943. A lone bicyclist transports a cache of explosives, hidden in a beer crate, to a Copenhagen hall being readied to house German troops. In a violent blast, the would-be barracks is reduced to rubble. It's the boldest act yet of Holger...- $45.99
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Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership
In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented in congressional testimony and transcripts, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qualified and credentialed Black teachers and principals. In the Deep South...- $45.95
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Vendor: Tim Weiner
The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
""Triumphant. ... A crucial document of the present times."" --Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThe epic successor to Tim Weiner's National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century, reaching from 9/11 through the wars in...- $59.95
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Vendor: Wendy Pearlman
The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself. In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Sunil Amrith
The Burning Earth: A History
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity...- $49.99
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Vendor: Fr Blake Britton
Reclaiming Vatican II: What It (Really) Said, What It Means, and How It Calls Us to Renew the Church
During the past five decades, the Second Vatican Council has been alternately celebrated or maligned for its supposed break with tradition and embrace of the modern world. But what if we've gotten it all wrong? Have Catholics--both those who embrace the spirit of Vatican...- $36.99
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Vendor: Shaun Usher
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with sixteen...- $46.99
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Vendor: Evan Osnos
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
From New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape--and sometimes warp--our social and political landscape.The...- $39.99
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Vendor: Alex Vernon
Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien
Featuring over one hundred interviews with family, friends, peers, and others--not to mention countless exchanges with Tim O'Brien himself--Peace is a Shy Thing provides a nearly day-by-day, gripping account of O'Brien's thirteen months as an infantryman in Vietnam and gives equal diligence to reconstructing...- $59.95
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Vendor: Karen Elliott House
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed Bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker.Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Wall Street Journal publisher,...- $45.95
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Vendor: Nancy Wu
Last Boat Out of Shanghai Lib/E: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution. Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern, and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to...- $101.99
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Vendor: Alex Beam
Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital
Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution--one of the most famous, most elite, and...- $19.99
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Vendor: Bruce Orr
Six Miles to Charleston: The True Story of John and Lavinia Fisher
Author: Bruce OrrISBN-13: 9798228601840Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Format: CD- $35.99
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Vendor: Craig Childs
Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
"An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who aren't born into it." --R. E. BURRILLO, author of Behind the Bears Ears Craig Childs bears witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau--bighorn sheep pecked behind boulders, tiny spirals...- $45.95
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Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world...- $45.95
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Vendor: David Levering Lewis
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race
First time on audio! The timeless Pulitzer Prize winner, the first in an epic two-volume biography that set the standard for historical scholarship on this era, narrated by Emmy and Tony Award winner Courtney B. Vance.This monumental biography by David Levering Lewis--eight years in...- $97.99
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy. Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian...- $46.99
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The Whiz Kids: How the 1950 Phillies Took the Pennant, Lost the World Series, and Changed Philadelphia Baseball Forever
Before the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. When twenty-eight-year-old Robert Carpenter Jr. took over in 1944, the Phillies had won only a single National League...- $49.99
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W.E.B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as "an engrossing masterpiece."In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois's charged and brilliant career....- $97.99
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Vendor: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and...- $49.99
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Vendor: Charles Pellegrino
Ghosts of Hiroshima
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERONFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Her Name, TitanicFor all humanity, it was, literally and figuratively, childhood's end.No one recognized the flashes of bright light that filled the sky....- $39.95
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Vendor: Justine Picardie
Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture
When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior's New Look created a striking, romantic vision of femininity, luxury, and grace, making him--and his last name--famous overnight. One woman informed Dior's vision more than...- $49.99
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Vendor: David McCullough
History Matters
In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays--many never published before--Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals.History Matters brings together selected essays by beloved...- $29.99
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Destroyer of Worlds: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
From the New York Times bestselling author of When the Sea Came Alive and The Only Plane in the Sky, a sweeping and comprehensive oral history of the atomic bomb's creation and deployment, marking the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.April 12, 1945. Less...- $55.99
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The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS
The little-known story of the man who sparked a groundswell of gay activism with a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision. When a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, Michael Hardwick had no idea that he would become an avatar...- $45.95
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Vendor: Richard Bassett
Maria Theresa: Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
A major new biography of Maria Theresa, the formidable Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in...- $59.99
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Vendor: Laurence Bergreen
Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future
From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever told and whose daring and prescient imagination sparked a lasting transformation of modern...- $45.95
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Vendor: Helen Castor
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
She-Wolves has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Author: Helen CastorISBN-13: 9798228475694Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2025Format: CD- $55.99
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
She-Wolves has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Author: Helen CastorISBN-13: 9798228475700Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2025Format: MP3 CD- $45.95
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Vendor: E. B. Gasaway
Grey Wolf, Grey Sea: Aboard the German Submarine U-124 in World War II
The inside story of life aboard the deadly Nazi U-Boat that sank forty-nine ships. The history of one of World War II's most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in Grey Wolf, Grey Sea, from its few defeats to a legion of victories. Kapitanleutnant Jochen...- $45.95
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Vendor: Herbert C. Covey
African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments
African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the Works Project Administration (WPA), Dr. Herbert...- $45.95
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Vendor: Neil Douglas-Klotz
Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The Hidden Teachings on Life and Death
This book is an approach to Jesus's recorded words and teachings through his native language, Aramaic, answering many questions clearly and consistently, even if unexpectedly, no matter which Gospel you have in your hands. From the Introduction: "Jesus's teachings have been used historically to...- $45.99
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Vendor: Lance Grande
The Evolution of Religions: A History of Related Traditions
Thousands of religions have adherents today, and countless more have existed throughout history. What accounts for this astonishing diversity? This extraordinarily ambitious and comprehensive book demonstrates how evolutionary systematics and philosophy can yield new insight into the development of organized religion.Lance Grande--a leading evolutionary...- $79.99
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Vendor: Shannon Monaghan
To Die with Such Men: Frontline Stories from Ukraine's International Legion
This book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it's all true. It's about what happens when Western politicians carelessly assume we're living the "end of history"--until the Great Game comes back, uglier and more callous than...- $49.99
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Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London...- $59.99
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Vendor: Eliot Stein
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder, Stein introduces listeners to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Jim Hougan
Spooks: The Haunting of America--The Private Use of Secret Agents
"Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing exposé to date of the bizarre 'power games' played by multinational corporations and tycoons." --Publishers Weekly A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on the metastasis of the United States intelligence community,...- $59.99
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Vendor: Margaret Willson
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation. This is her remarkable story. Captain Thurídur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived...- $24.99
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Vendor: Matthew P. Mayo
Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West
The romance of the West is built on an endless armature of shootouts and train robberies, cowboys versus Indians, white hat versus black, and everybody versus the wilderness. From John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet to Hugh Glass's six week crawl to civilization...- $19.99
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Vendor: Cheryl McKissack Daniel
The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers
The riveting story of the McKissack family--the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today--in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation.Captured in his native West Africa and...- $34.99
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Vendor: Bruce Handy
Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies--from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and on to John Hughes, Mean Girls, The Hunger Games, and more.What influence did...- $49.99
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Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story
The Founders of the American nation would have had trouble recognizing the America that emerged after the Civil War. By century's end we had rapidly evolved into the world's greatest industrial power. It was a nation of large new cities populated by immigrants from...- $41.99
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Vendor: Simon Dunstan
Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler
DID HITLER--CODE NAME "GREY WOLF"--REALLY DIE IN 1945? GRIPPING NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED... When Truman asked Stalin in 1945 whether Hitler was dead, Stalin replied bluntly, "No." As late as 1952, Eisenhower declared: "We have been unable to unearth one bit...- $27.98
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The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin
The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against the Third Reich. It was also one of the war's bloodiest and most pivotal battles, whose outcome would shape international politics for decades.Author: Cornelius...- $29.95
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