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Vendor: Prudence Peiffer
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there. For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip...- $46.99
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The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light." (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty,...- $46.99
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Vendor: Robert Tombs
The English and Their History
Author: Robert TombsISBN-10: 1799987957ISBN-13: 9781799987956Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.60lbs- $82.00
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Vendor: Eduardo Kohn
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Author: Eduardo KohnISBN-10: 1665250712ISBN-13: 9781665250719Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: Harold G. Moore
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Author: Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. GallowayISBN-10: 1665231858ISBN-13: 9781665231855Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbs- $57.99
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Vendor: Janet Benge
Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language (Audiobook)
During WWI, Cameron Townsend (1896-1982) was told, "You'll do more good selling Bibles in Central America than you would shooting Germans in France." Cameron began by translating the Bible into the language of his Guatemalan friends. Then he started Wycliffe Bible Translators with the...- $21.99
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Vendor: Stanley G. Payne
A History of Fascism, 1914-1945
Focusing mostly on Italy and Germany but also considering Spain, Romania, Japan, and movements in other countries, Payne (history, U. of Wisconsin) describes fascism as revolutionary ultranationalism based on national rebirth, extreme elitism, mass mobilization, and the promotion of violence and military virtues. He...- $44.95
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Vendor: Garrett M. Graff
UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There
From New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Watergate comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government's decades-long quest to solve one of humanity's greatest mysteries: Are we alone in the universe?From the post-war Project Blue...- $65.99
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Vendor: Dan Schreiber
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
A collection of the world's most mind-boggling, thought-provoking, and downright hilarious theories by the co-host of the hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, Dan Schreiber.Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited...- $41.99
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Vendor: Kate Fagan
Hoop Muses: An Insider's Guide to Pop Culture and the (Women's) Game
HOOP MUSES is an homage to the game, bringing style and flair to all the details, moments, and people who have shaped the collective world of (women's) hoops. HOOP MUSES will take us through time - literally. We begin in the future, in 2072,...- $40.00
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Vendor: Craig McNamara
Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
An unforgettable father and son story that confronts the legacy of the Vietnam War across two generations.Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his...- $45.00
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Vendor: Benjamin Cunningham
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow. In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB were both watching Karel Koecher closely--and they were both convinced...- $45.00
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Vendor: Stacy Schiff
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)--the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel...- $45.00
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Vendor: Veronica Chambers
Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice
A perfect tool for young readers as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers's inspiring collection of profiles--along with Senator Cory Booker's stirring foreword--will inspire readers of all ages to stand up for what's right.You may only be one person, but you...- $39.99
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Vendor: Ilan Evyatar
Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination - And Secret Diplomacy - To Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a
The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar--and diplomacy--to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons, in the process forging a new Middle East by uniting with Sunni Arab nations to stop their common enemy.Authors Bob and Evyatar describe how Israel has used...- $39.99
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Unbroken Bonds of Battle: A Modern Warriors Book of Heroism, Patriotism, and Friendship
Life only really starts when we start serving others.For many people, military service isn't simply a job. It's a ticket out of a lonely society and into a family of enduring bonds. In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has...- $41.99
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Vendor: Charlotte Gray
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century--by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt) and Jennie Jerome...- $49.99
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Vendor: Molly Guptill Manning
The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II
From New York Times bestselling author Molly Guptill Manning comes The War of Words, the captivating story of how American troops in World War II wielded pens to tell their own stories as they made history.At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship,...- $36.95
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River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Author: Buddy LevyISBN-10: 1665237090ISBN-13: 9781665237093Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbs- $46.99
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Vendor: Cassandra Good
First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America
Award-winning historian Cassandra A. Good shows how the outspoken stepgrandchildren of George Washington played an overlooked but important role in the development of American society and politics from the Revolution to the Civil War.While it's widely known in America that George and Martha Washington...- $46.99
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Vendor: John C. Calhoun
A Disquisition on Government
Author: John C. CalhounISBN-10: 8200084647ISBN-13: 9798200084647Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/26/2011Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 5.75h x 5.83w x 0.39d- $27.99
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Vendor: Stephen Wertheim
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of Us Global Supremacy
A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power...- $29.95
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Vendor: William J. Bauer
We Are the Land: A History of Native California
Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies...- $51.99
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Vendor: Romano Guardini
The World and the Person: And Other Writings
No Catholic library is complete without these five landmark works by Romano Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th century. This treasury of five monumental works by Romano Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th century,...- $49.99
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Vendor: Andrew Biggio
The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand
It all started because of a rifle. The Rifle is the inspirational story of a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived...- $41.99
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Vendor: Anderson Cooper
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.From...- $41.99
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Vendor: Christine Rendel
Over a Hot Stove Lib/E: A Kitchen Maid's Story
This delightful memoir provides a unique Upstairs, Downstairs account of what life was really like in a bygone era At the age of sixteen, Flo Wadlow left her family to begin what would become a distinguished life in service. Starting as a kitchen maid...- $46.99
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Vendor: Steven Elliott
War Story: Sometimes the Real Fight Starts After the Battle
Every soldier has a war story.Steven Elliott's opens with the death of American hero Pat Tillman by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan--when Army Ranger Elliott pulled the trigger, believing he and his fellow soldiers were firing on the enemy.Tormented by remorse and PTSD in the...- $34.95
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Vendor: Miles Lagoze
Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan
"The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war" (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary Combat Obscura.This is a war story. But it is also a story of a lost...- $39.99
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Vendor: Damon Root
A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution
In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass's fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American history in the nineteenth century and beyond. At a time when the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence...- $36.99
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Vendor: Kate Storey
White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
The intimate, multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod--the iconic place where they've celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds--based on more than a hundred in-depth interviews by a respected Esquire writer.Hyannis Port, Massachusetts,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Rachel Louise Martin
A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board--will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation...- $39.99
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Vendor: Neil Howe
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America's past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years--and what our lives will...- $55.99
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Vendor: Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
#1 New York Times bestseller From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric...- $49.99
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Vendor: Katie Spalding
Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more you realize they have something in common: a mystifying lack of common sense. In Katie Spalding's raucous and hilarious debut, Edison's Ghosts completely overturns everything you knew about genius. It turns...- $45.00
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Vendor: George Bancroft
History of the United States of America, Volume III: From the Discovery of the Continent
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsVolume 3 of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A major US History Series in six volumes. "Author's Last Revision" 1883 by D. Appleton and Company.Bancroft...- $56.95
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Vendor: Miles Taylor
Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
The author behind the "eye-popping" (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for "The Next Trump."Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not....- $39.99
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Vendor: C. W. Goodyear
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
The first comprehensive biography in decades of the extraordinary, tragic life of America's twentieth president--James Garfield.In this magisterial biography, C.W. Goodyear charts the life and times of one of the most remarkable Americans ever to win the Presidency. Progressive firebrand and conservative compromiser; Union...- $55.99
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Vendor: James B. Conroy
The Devils Will Get No Rest: Fdr, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War
The first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their divided high command hammered out a winning strategy at the tipping point of World War II.The Devils Will Get No Rest is...- $44.99
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Vendor: Robin Dg Kelley
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the long Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial...- $41.99
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Vendor: Alice Morse Earle
The Sabbath in Puritan New England
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA Major US Historian SeriesThe Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle published by Charles Scribner's Sons 1891.Note--This book is "read as written". It was published in 1891. It is in the public domain.I....- $36.95
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Vendor: Bill O'Reilly
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits...- $39.99
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Vendor: Jesse Rifkin
This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City
A fascinating history that examines how real estate, gentrification, community, and the highs and lows of New York City itself shaped the city's music scenes--from folk to house music--and how those scenes shaped the city.Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and...- $51.99
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Vendor: Theodore Roosevelt
The Winning of the West, Vol. 1: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in six volumes. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889.Volume One--From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776Narrated by Joseph TablerNote--This book is "read as written." It...- $36.95
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Vendor: Chun Han Wong
Party of One: The Rise of XI Jinping and China's Superpower Future
From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People's Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal...- $44.99
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Vendor: Martyn Rady
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn...- $65.00
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Vendor: Douglas Valentine
Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire
Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a sweeping critical analysis of Western colonialism, its foundational beliefs in militarism, patriarchy, Christianity, and white supremacy; and its destructive impact on the nations of Southeast Asia and, ultimately, America.Valentine focuses on the "dark arts" of...- $46.95
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Vendor: Santi Elijah Holley
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
An Amerikan Family is a light helping us go forward." -- Nikki Giovanni, poetAn enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home...- $46.99
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Vendor: Lena S. Andrews
Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
"An ingenious look at WWII." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies' victory.Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during...- $41.99
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Vendor: Johnnie Moore
The New Book of Christian Martyrs: The Heroes of Our Faith from the 1st Century to the 21st Century
An inspiring keepsake that honors the heroic sacrifice of today's martyrs for the Christian faith--and shows how their actions mirror the courage of a long line of brave Christians. In the twenty-first century, we are witnessing an escalation in Christian persecution like we have...- $24.99
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