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Vendor: Patrick K. O'Donnell
The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware
From the bestselling author of Washington's Immortals and The Unknowns, an important new chronicle of the American Revolution heralding the heroism of the men from Marblehead, MassachusettsOn the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation after losing the Battle of...- $46.95
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George V: Never a Dull Moment
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was...- $67.99
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Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute
The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today's worldIn 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. A Voice...- $34.95
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Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon
On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than a...- $34.95
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Vendor: Audra Simpson
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and anthropology. Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawà ke, a reserve community in what is now Southwestern Quebec, Audra Simpson examines their struggles to...- $24.99
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The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal - an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea - as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as...- $29.99
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Let Me Be Frank: A Book about Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and opportunities denied them because they were women.This book will surprise, astonish, and hopefully anger...- $36.99
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
A New York Times best sellerThe Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist....- $24.99
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Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo - a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century - uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America.There was...- $29.99
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Vendor: Mark Bowden
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
In The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.In the 64 days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome...- $24.99
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Vendor: Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein....- $49.95
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Vendor: Maurie D. McInnis
Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University
From the University of Virginia's very inception, slavery was deeply woven into its fabric. Enslaved people first helped to construct and then later lived in the Academical Village; they raised and prepared food, washed clothes, cleaned privies, and chopped wood. They maintained the buildings,...- $29.95
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Vendor: Edith Hamilton
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture--the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present....- $69.99
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Vendor: Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Bury My Heart at Wounded...- $32.95
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Vendor: Bill O'Reilly
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals...- $39.99
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon! "A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times Book Review)--the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan...- $14.99
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Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000
Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established...- $67.95
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Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation Into Who Killed JFK
The CIA, Dallas, and the hard details of the JFK assassination.Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy, how the murder was carried out, and why Kennedy was assassinated. Through exhaustive research...- $29.99
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Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation Into Who Killed JFK
The CIA, Dallas, and the hard details of the JFK assassination.Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy, how the murder was carried out, and why Kennedy was assassinated. Through exhaustive research...- $37.99
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Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas
2020 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award Alongside the various people moving into and through the nineteenth-century Texas frontier was a group of European intellectuals bent on establishing a socialist utopia near the hamlet of Dallas. Their inspiration, French philosopher Charles...- $34.95
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The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Saud
The Kingdom is the story of a country--a country of astonishing contrasts, where routine computer printouts open with the words "In the name of God," where men who grew up in goat-hair tents now dominate the money markets of the world, and where murderers...- $54.95
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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country. -- James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary...- $39.99
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Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for...- $29.99
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Utopia for Realists, a "bold" (Daniel H. Pink), "provocative" (Adam Grant) argument that our innate goodness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in humanity's success.If there is one belief that has united the left...- $35.00
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The Worst Passions of Human Nature: White Supremacy in the Civil War North
The American North's commitment to preventing a southern secession rooted in slaveholding suggests a society united in its opposition to slavery and racial inequality. The reality, however, was far more complex and troubling. In his latest book, Paul Escott lays bare the contrast between...- $29.95
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Redemption from Tyranny: Herman Husband's American Revolution
For many common people, the American Revolution offered an opportunity to radically reimagine the wealth and power structures in the nascent United States. Yet in the eyes of working-class activists, the U.S. Constitution favored the interests of a corrupt elite and betrayed the lofty...- $29.95
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Vanderbilt CD: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's...- $39.99
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Vendor: Phil Keith
All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer, for readers of Unbroken...- $34.99
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Vendor: Dick Winters
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the "Band of Brothers," they suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe in an unparalleled record of bravery under fire.Dick Winters led...- $24.95
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Vendor: David McCullough
1776
America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake...- $29.95
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944volume 2
The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns. In An Army at Dawn--winner of the Pulitzer Prize--Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American...- $39.95
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Vendor: Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus Low Price CD: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed...- $19.99
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
This vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918--which inspired events that forever changed the European continent--is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.Before 1871, Germany was not yet...- $31.95
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the Indian Wars.Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull:...- $46.99
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Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
The author of The Private Lives of the Tudors illuminates the almost thousand-year history of the British monarchy.Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, 41 kings and queens...- $29.99
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Lily's Promise: Holding on to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond--A Story for All Generations
Performed by Anna Cordell and Dov Forman featuring a foreword written and read by Charles HRH The Prince of Wales and dedication written and read by Lily Ebert.Utterly compelling, heartbreaking, truthful and yet redemptive . . . a testimony of irrepressible spirit and an...- $41.99
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Vendor: Ray E. Boomhower
Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam
In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard...- $39.95
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Vendor: David Page
Food Americana: 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...- $34.99
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Vendor: Jerry Borrowman
Why We Fought Lib/E: Inspiring Stories of Resisting Hitler and Defending Freedom
The struggle to combat the Nazis during World War II encompassed front lines far beyond conventional battlefields. In a panoramic and compelling account, author Jerry Borrowman shares seven largely untold stories of people who undertook extraordinary efforts to defeat the Third Reich at enormous...- $80.00
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Vendor: Jonathan Shay
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.Seamlessly combining important psychological work and brilliant literary interpretation with...- $39.99
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Vendor: Carl Reinecke
Books That Made Us: The Companion to the ABC TV Series
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction.Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the...- $39.99
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Books That Made Us: The Companion to the ABC TV Series
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction.Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the...- $29.99
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line Lib/E: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of fifteen unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during...- $97.00
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Humane Lib/E: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
A prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane.In the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or discussion, the United States carries out military operations around the globe. It hardly matters who's president...- $125.00
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear. --Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice InitiativeWinfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil...- $29.95
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Vendor: Richard Cohen
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past.There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And...- $99.99
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Operation Pineapple Express
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Berets who come together to save a former comrade--and 500 other Afghans--being targeted by the Taliban in the chaos of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan. In April 2021, an urgent call...- $39.99
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Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life
A history of the colorful and complex kingdom of cosplay and fandom fashion by Andrew Liptak, journalist, historian, and member of the legendary fan-based Star Wars organization the 501st Legion.In recent years, cosplay--the practice of dressing up in costume as a character--has exploded, becoming...- $44.99
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A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
A long-overdue biography of Grover Cleveland--the honest, principled, and plain-spoken president whose country has largely overlooked him.Featuring a wealth of in-depth research and newly uncovered details, A Man of Iron explores the remarkable life and extraordinary career of Grover Cleveland--one of America's most unusual...- $44.99
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Warholcapote: A Non-Fiction Invention
An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends--Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested that he record their private conversations over the period of a few months,...- $21.99
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