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Vendor: Jamaica Kincaid
A Small Place
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport....- $29.99
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The War on Alcohol Lib/E: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a noble experiment that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion...- $71.99
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Everything Now Lib/E: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. (It has its own dreams.) Not just the vanishing point...- $66.99
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History Has Begun Lib/E: The Birth of a New America
Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History's great civilizations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, the US was...- $66.99
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1996 Lib/E: A Biography--Reliving the Legend-Packed, Dynasty-Stacked, Most Iconic Sports Year Ever
Take a rollicking tour through the sports world of 1996, when debuts, comebacks, movies, and pop culture crossover changed the sports landscape forever. From college to the Olympics to the pros; from the NBA to golf, tennis, and boxing, 1996 was home to athletes...- $71.99
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Dreamers and Schemers Lib/E: How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis
Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city's transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the Prince of Realtors,...- $24.99
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American Covenant Lib/E: National Parks, Their Promise, and Our Nation's Future
An intimate and candid account of our national parks and their strengths, vulnerabilities, and essential role in American life. Part memoir, part critique, and paean to the value of national parks, American Covenant distills the experience and insights from two long careers in conservation....- $66.99
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Threads of Life Lib/E: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the...- $71.99
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The Detroit True Crime Chronicles Lib/E: Tales of Murder & Mayhem in the Motor City
Author: Scott M. BurnsteinISBN-13: 9798200158102Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2021Format: CD- $71.99
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Vendor: David Page
Food Americana Lib/E: The Remarkable People and Incredible Stories Behind America's Favorite Dishes
What is American cuisine? What national menu do we share? What dishes have we chosen, how did they become American, and how are they likely to evolve from here? In Food Americana, David Page answers all these questions and more. America is more than...- $66.99
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Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo Lib/E: History, Hits and Headquarters
Take a tour of Buffalo, New York's mobster and mafia history. Local mob expert reveals gangsters' stories, hangouts, and more. Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters. Besides common criminals and bank robbers, a powerful crime family headed by local boss...- $66.99
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Vendor: Andrew Arndt
Streams in the Wasteland: Finding Spiritual Renewal with the Desert Fathers and Mothers
What if our exhaustion, burnout, and pain are an invitation into a more vibrant faith? Christianity is fighting for its soul. We've enjoyed the benefits of power and privilege for so long that many of us have forgotten the radical way of Jesus. But...- $29.99
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Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During W O Rld War II
In the fall of 1943, during some of the Pacific theater's bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off a diplomatic coup--the exchange of civilians caught on the wrong side of the battlefield after Pearl Harbor. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied civilians trapped in...- $55.99
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Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to '90s Sitcoms
The award-winning co-anchor of PBS NewsHour presents a sweeping and insightful retrospective on the history of Black comedy in America.Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in shaping the American sense of humor. The 1990s showcased a golden era for Black comedy, highlighted...- $49.99
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Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, who transformed our vision of the West.Before Larry McMurtry became one of the most...- $55.99
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Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and Its Trial by Fire in World War II
They arrived in Annapolis as teenagers the year Hitler re-occupied the Rhineland and graduated as young men the week the British Army evacuated Dunkirk. Annapolis Goes to War tells the story of their transformative years at the Naval Academy and the annealing years in...- $59.99
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Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece
Plato is one of history's most influential thinkers, yet the image we have of him--an ethereal figure far removed from society and politics, who conjured abstract ideas in peaceful groves--is a fiction, created by Plato's admirers and built up over centuries. In Plato and...- $45.95
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Vendor: Roland Allen
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024 We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revolutionize our lives? And how can using a notebook help change the way you think? In this wide-ranging history,...- $45.95
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Vendor: Barbara Crostini
Greek Monasticism in Southern Italy: The Life of Neilos in Context
This volume was conceived with the double aim of providing a background and a further context for the new Dumbarton Oaks English translation of the Life of St Neilos from Rossano, founder of the monastery of Grottaferrata near Rome in 1004. Reflecting this double...- $48.95
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Bringing Down a President Lib/E: The Watergate Scandal
A middle-grade retelling of Richard Nixon's downfall, Bringing Down a President: The Watergate Scandal is an inventive and timely look at one of the biggest scandals to ever rock our nation by Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy.Comprised almost completely of primary source quotes (good...- $30.00
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world's imagination. Demanding that...- $69.99
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God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom
This is the book that launched Buckley's career--and a movement. As a young recent graduate, Buckley took on Yale's professional and administrative staffs, citing their hypocritical withdrawal from the tenets upon which the institution was built. Yale was founded on the belief that God...- $29.95
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Kate!: The Courage, Grace, and Power of the Woman Who Will Be Queen
Author: Christopher AndersenISBN-10: 1668126877ISBN-13: 9781668126875Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Format: CD- $39.99
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Vendor: Douglas Brunt
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world's most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, whose legacy was erased in the aftermath...- $39.99
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Vendor: Arnold Doring
Luftwaffe Bomber to Nightfighter: Volume II: The Memoirs of a Knight's Cross Pilot
Arnold Döring was just twenty-three years old when he flew his first mission against the Soviet Union on June 21, 1941. On that day he started writing his diary. His account not only describe the technical aspects and the difficulties posed by weather and...- $45.99
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Vendor: Elizabeth Adelman
Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Wild Plants
A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way--and of their amazing afterlife. Elizabeth Adelman's Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants collected on...- $49.99
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Vendor: Austin McCoy
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made
For fans of Dilla Time and The Chronicles of DOOM, a culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop group De La Soul, and how they changed the look, sound, and feel of Black America.Music artists and trends come and go, but every once in...- $39.99
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Vendor: Prager University
The Honest Book of Presidents: The Men Who Shaped America
America's most trustworthy resource delivers a refreshing guide to the American presidency.Only forty-five men have held the title President of the United States. In this concise yet powerful volume, PragerU -- in collaboration with leading historians, political thinkers, and bestselling authors -- takes you...- $45.95
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Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
As a pastor's wife for twenty-five years, Beth Allison Barr has lived with assumptions about what she should do and who she should be. In Becoming the Pastor's Wife, Barr draws on that experience and her expertise as a historian to trace the history...- $45.99
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. "You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs....- $19.99
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Vendor: Russell Freedman
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Newbery Honor Book * Sibert Medal WinnerCarefully researched and expertly told, this Newbery Honor and Sibert Medal-winning book is a moving account of the life of a talented and determined artist who left her mark on musical and social history. Through her story, Newbery...- $45.95
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Vendor: Olivia Campbell
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care. In the early 1800s,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Paul Cartledge
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece, from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse
The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since. A society of warrior-heroes, they were living exemplars of self-sacrifice, community endeavor, and achievement against all odds, qualities that today signify the ultimate in heroism....- $19.95
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Vendor: David L. Mahsman
The Wittenberg Project: The Old Latin School
The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod and her sister church in Germany partner in the extraordinary endeavor of restoring the Old Latin School in Wittenberg, Germany, where the Lutheran faith was taught for more 250 years. The long and winding road from purchase to dedication of...- $26.99
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Vendor: Trevor Jackson
The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
Today, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism―it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the world around us reveals that things can't stay this way...- $49.99
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries. Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton...- $45.95
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An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln
A revelatory new biography of one of the most misunderstood and vilified First Ladies in American history: Mary Todd Lincoln.Mary Lincoln was at the center of politics at a time when society's expectations for women were rigid and circumscribed. The product of Southern aristocracy,...- $65.99
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Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited--And the Fight to Retake Control
An exploration of how African American innovators and artists--whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbers--have fought for and often won the rights to own and benefit from their own work.When we think about the...- $34.99
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Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas
The true story of the corrupt and violent town of Borger, Texas, in 1927―and the legendary Texas Ranger tasked with taming it. Just a year after the town of Borger, Texas, was founded, the press called it "the wickedest in the state" for good...- $49.99
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The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish women--champions who helped lead the resistance, sabotage the Nazis, and aid...- $45.95
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A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy
Adopted by the US Navy for issue to all new sailors, A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy brings to life the events that have shaped and inspired the navy of today while highlighting the roles of all sailors--from seaman to admiral. Rather than...- $29.95
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The Fallen: The Lost Girls of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence
Author: Louise BranganISBN-10: 1668121395ISBN-13: 9781668121399Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Format: CD- $39.99
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45
In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the Hürtgen Forest, together with the Battle...- $79.99
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The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
"Beautifully researched and masterfully told" (Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from the Deep), this is the riveting story of the heroic and tragic US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific.Focusing on the unique stories of...- $54.99
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Evidence of the Extraordinary: Discoveries from the Series the Proof Is Out There
From an executive producer of the hit HISTORY(R) network series The Proof Is Out There(R), an evidence-based peek behind and beyond some of the world's greatest mysteries.In recent years the assumed existence of UFOs/UAPs, the widespread acceptance of government interference in the truth, and...- $39.99
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Vendor: Martha Raddatz
The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose
The beloved Emmy Award-winning face of ABC News and New York Times bestselling author Martha Raddatz shares ten stories of American warriors and their families, whose superhuman sacrifice and resilience--on and off the battlefield--show that true courage comes in many forms.Martha Raddatz has seen...- $39.99
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Vendor: Michael Auslin
National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America
The inspiring story of the Declaration of Independence--the first to take us from its drafting by Thomas Jefferson to today--charting the many lives of a document that captures the soul of America and has united generations around its defiant ideals, published for the 250th...- $39.99
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Vendor: Ted Powell
Churchill and the Crown
Winston Churchill was born in a palace and was given a funeral worthy of a king. His family had enjoyed an intimate association with the British monarchy stretching back centuries. As King Edward VIII said of him, "I have never met anyone of royal...- $49.99
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Vendor: Ben Hughes
The Siege of Fort William Henry: A Year on the Northeastern Frontier
The opening years of the French and Indian War were disastrous for the British. Hindered by quarrelsome provincial councils, incompetent generals, and the redcoats' inability to adapt to wilderness warfare, Britain was losing the war. Learning that most of Britain's military resources were allocated...- $41.99
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Vendor: Alistair Moffat
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History
A comprehensive and detailed look into the Scottish Highlands. Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it...- $55.99
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