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Vendor: Peter Stark
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
In 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast of North America. More than half of his men died violent deaths. The others survived starvation, madness, and greed to shape the destiny of a continent.At a...- $44.99
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The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjd
A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, investigative reporter Ravi Somaiya uncovers the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskj ld. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px...- $35.00
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Vendor: Frances Fitzgerald
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam-into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks-and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese...- $54.00
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The First Kennedys Lib/E: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish refugee couple who escaped famine, created a life together in a city hostile to Irish, immigrants, and Catholics, and launched the Kennedy...- $71.99
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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive,...- $44.95
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Vendor: Dan Abrams
Alabama V. King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched the Civil Rights Movement
The inspiring story of the Montgomery Bus boycott trial, which brought national attention to a young Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., told by King's lawyer and friend, Fred Gray with New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher.On December 1, 1955, Rosa...- $46.99
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Vendor: Madeleine Albright
Hell and Other Destinations Low Price CD: A 21st Century Memoir
Author: Madeleine AlbrightISBN-10: 0063064022ISBN-13: 9780063064027Publisher: HarperAudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2022Format: CDWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 5.20h x 5.70w x 1.50d- $19.99
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Vendor: A. J. Baime
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
A riveting biography of Walter F. White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever Walter F. White led two lives:...- $41.99
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Vendor: R. Richard Wagner
Coming Out, Moving Forward: Wisconsin's Recent Gay History
Coming Out, Moving Forward, the second volume in R. Richard Wagner's groundbreaking work on gay history in Wisconsin, outlines the challenges that LGBT Wisconsinites faced in their efforts to right past oppressions and secure equality in the post-Stonewall period between 1969 and 2000. During...- $39.95
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Vendor: Tim Judah
In Wartime Lib/E: Stories from Ukraine
Author: Tim JudahISBN-10: 1665148195ISBN-13: 9781665148191Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2016Format: CDWeight: 0.65lbs- $71.99
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Vendor: Ben Schreckinger
The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty Years of Tragedy, Scandal, and Triumph
A deeply reported exploration of Joe Biden as told through his extended family.Coming off of the 2020 election, The Bidens tells the Biden Family story in full, from the secrets lurking in the deep recesses of Joe's family tree to his son Hunter's foreign...- $40.00
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Vendor: Lucy Adlington
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps.At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous...- $44.99
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Vendor: Sanjay Gupta
World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, MD, offers an accessible, data-packed answer to our biggest questions about Covid-19: What have we learned about this pandemic and how can we prepare for--or prevent--the next one? As America's favorite frontline Covid-19 health journalist, Dr. Sanjay Gupta...- $29.99
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche...- $19.99
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Vendor: Craig Whitlock
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about the longest war in American history by Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the...- $39.99
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Vendor: Rosemary Sullivan
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team--led by an obsessed retired FBI agent--has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and...- $39.99
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Vendor: Chris Wallace
Countdown Bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the MasterMind of 9/11 to Justice
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following Chris Wallace's "riveting" (The New York Times) and "propulsive" (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deeply reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden....- $34.99
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Vendor: Nicole Strathman
Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography Volume 37
What is American Indian photography? At the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Curtis began creating romantic images of American Indians, and his works--along with pictures by other non-Native photographers--came to define the field. Yet beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century,...- $50.00
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Vendor: Bret Baier
To Rescue the Republic CD: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
#1 New York Times BestsellerFox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue the Republic is narrative history at its absolute finest. A fast-paced, thrilling and enormously important book." --Douglas BrinkleyAn epic history spanning the battlegrounds of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Russell Cobb
The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State
This unflinching look at Oklahoma's singular past helpfully fills in lesser-known aspects of the historical record.--Publishers WeeklyAn Oklahoma Bestseller2021 Director's Award in the Oklahoma Book AwardsBoard of Directors Award for special meritLook down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another "flyover...- $32.95
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Vendor: Kenneth Womack
Solid State: The Story of "abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles
Music writer Womack delivers a fascinating, in-depth look at the creation of Abbey Road, the Beatles' penultimate album released 50 years ago.... Womack displays a detailed and insightful analysis that fans will hope he applies to the band's other albums.― Publishers Weekly Acclaimed Beatles...- $26.95
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Vendor: Calvin Coolidge
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge: Authorized, Expanded, and Annotated Edition
Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi-cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past ... to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge.Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for...- $34.95
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Vendor: Andrew Pettegree
The Library: A Fragile History
The dramatic and contested history of the library, from the ancient world to the digital age Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with...- $45.00
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Vendor: Desmond Shum
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
A unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the highest realms of power and money in China and whose wife was disappeared, Red Roulette reveals the truth of what is happening inside the country's wealth-making machine. After the Communist Revolution, Desmond...- $39.99
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Vendor: Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything
One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson...- $19.99
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Vendor: Ben Raines
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day--by the journalist who discovered the ship's remains.Fifty years after the...- $39.99
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Vendor: Christopher Clarey
The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
A major biography of the greatest men's tennis player of the modern era.There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including...- $40.00
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Vendor: Tom Clavin
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Kati Marton
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world.The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist and pastor's...- $39.99
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Vendor: Arthur Herman
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
A stirring investigation of the Scandinavian influence on our times, both past and present. You won't look at the world the same way again.--Neal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author of The Winter FortressFrom a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist,...- $67.99
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Vendor: James Patterson
Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors
Discover "the stories America needs to hear" (Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.)) with these moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them. Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of...- $35.00
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Vendor: Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place
Enter into The Hiding Place to relive Corrie ten Boom's heart-pounding account as a leader in the Dutch Underground during World War II. In this latest release from Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre, you'll find tragedy, perseverance, and the reality of God's amazing...- $23.99
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Vendor: Ann Wolbert Burgess
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind
A breathtakingly vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers.Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex...- $40.00
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Vendor: David Copperfield
David Copperfield's History of Magic
An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world's greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form's most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield's secret museum. In this personal journey through a unique...- $19.99
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Vendor: Sam Heughan
The Clanlands Almanac: Seasonal Stories from Scotland
A seasonal meander through the wilds of ScotlandIf Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top-down, pedal-to-the-metal, up-and-down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. An invitation to anyone who picks up the book to join us...- $31.95
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Vendor: Imani Perry
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration. --Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and...- $51.99
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Vendor: James R. Gaines
The Fifties: An Underground History
A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines.In a fascinating...- $34.99
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Vendor: Mike Duncan
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
From the massively popular podcaster and New York Times bestselling author comes the story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to protect the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution,...- $40.00
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Vendor: Robert O'Neill
The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles and Create Your Lasting Legacy
The Way Forward will help every reader master their own challenges--this is a must-read book! --Admiral Bill McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired) and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Make Your BedAmerican Sniper meets Make Your Bed in these life lessons from decorated...- $41.99
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Vendor: David McCullough
Brave Companions: Portraits in History
From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has...- $39.99
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Vendor: Megan Kate Nelson
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the propulsive and vividly told story of how Yellowstone became the world's first national park amid the nationwide turmoil and racial violence of the Reconstruction era.Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone...- $39.99
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Vendor: Matthew Pearl
The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped a Nation
In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone's daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation.On a quiet midsummer day...- $36.99
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Vendor: Isabel Wilkerson
Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns...- $45.00
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Vendor: Matt Siegel
The Secret History of Food: Strange But True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat
An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and loveIs Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like...- $36.99
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Vendor: Stephen E. Ambrose
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803...- $49.95
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Vendor: Bill O'Reilly
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
This program includes a prologue read by Bill O'Reilly The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's...- $39.99
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Vendor: Sam Kean
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets...- $40.00
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Vendor: Kelly Weill
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a nearly two-hundred-year-old delusion--the idea that we all live on a flat plane, under a solid dome, ringed by an impossible wall of ice. It is the ultimate in conspiracy theories, a wholesale rejection of...- $36.99
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Vendor: Lucy Adlington
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps.At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous...- $39.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Raff
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas.ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived...- $40.00
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