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Vendor: Greg Dawson
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias Anna) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna's son).She...- $27.99
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Vendor: Dwight Chapin
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide
In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy takes readers inside the life...- $51.99
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Vendor: Paul A. Offit
Vaccinated: From Cowpox to Mrna, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
Updated with a New ForewordMedical writing at its finest.--David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryRespected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs--vaccinations--and the medical hero...- $41.99
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Vendor: David Hackett Fischer
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders explores the little-known history...- $75.00
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Vendor: Adrian Tinniswood
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes...- $40.00
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Vendor: Matthew Gabriele
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality--a brilliant reflection of humanity itself.The word medieval conjures images of the Dark Ages--centuries of ignorance, superstition, stasis, savagery,...- $41.99
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Vendor: MIM Eichler Rivas
Beautiful Jim Key: The Lost History of the World's Smartest Horse
The horse Jim was known as Beautiful Jim Key from the moment he stepped into the American spotlight in 1897 at age eight until his death in 1912. This horse was beloved for his remarkable intelligence, cultivated by human kindness and patience. Proclaimed a...- $34.95
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Vendor: Keith Thomson
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
A riveting account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific--a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England. The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring,...- $45.00
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Vendor: Winfred Rembert
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...- $34.95
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Vendor: Kristen Green
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail
The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation's first HBCUs In The Devil's Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the...- $40.00
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Vendor: Robert E. May
Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist,...- $34.95
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Vendor: Colin Burgess
Shattered Dreams: The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects...- $32.95
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Vendor: Jocko Willink
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win
"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The Hustle An...- $39.99
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Vendor: John Lewis
Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work/Biography. In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging...- $35.00
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Vendor: Andrew Morton
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight.They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when,...- $40.00
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Vendor: Ronald Brownstein
Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein--"one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)--tells the kaleidoscopic story of one monumental year that marked the city of Los Angeles' creative peak, a glittering moment when popular culture was ahead of politics in...- $44.99
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Vendor: Dick Gregory
No More Lies
In 1972, during the Black Power Movement, iconoclast Dick Gregory challenged one of the foundations of America itself - its history, which had been written almost exclusively from the white male perspective. In No More Lies, this true trailblazer gave voice to African Americans,...- $29.99
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Vendor: Linda Colley
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the...- $55.99
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Vendor: Kim Kelly
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
A revelatory and inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim KellyFreed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers...- $39.99
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Vendor: Hazel V. Carby
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
Winner of the British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020Highly commended for PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2020A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story"Where are you from?" was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl...- $29.99
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Vendor: John Gleeson
The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster
A riveting, decades-in-the-writing memoir from the determined young prosecutor who, in two of America's most celebrated trials, managed to convict famed mob boss John Gotti--and subsequently took down the Mafia altogether.John Gotti was without a doubt the flashiest and feared Mafioso in American history....- $49.99
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Vendor: Natalie Haynes
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!--Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take...- $41.99
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Vendor: Ira Rutkow
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development--spanning the Stone Age to the present day--blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling.There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously...- $49.99
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Vendor: Alicia Puglionesi
In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction--with profound repercussions for politics past and present.The four sections of In Whose Ruins range over the American landscape, from...- $39.99
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Vendor: Gayle Jessup White
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings' family explores America's racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors--both the enslaver and the enslaved.Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father's family, that they were direct descendants of...- $41.99
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Vendor: Tim Marshall
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses ten maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today's world powers and what it means for our future.Tim Marshall's global...- $39.99
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Vendor: Paul Gardullo
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer CrewAn incisive and illuminating analysis...- $34.99
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Vendor: Matthew Stewart
The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
A scorching, trenchant, analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone--including themselves.In 21st century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground....- $39.99
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Vendor: Bill Schutt
Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
A journey into the heartbeat of life on Earth. Millennia ago, when we first began puzzling over the mysteries of the human body, one organ stood out as vital. The heart was warm, it was central, and it moved as it pumped blood. The...- $39.99
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Vendor: Ben Shapiro
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Low Price CD
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build--and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America...- $19.99
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Vendor: Martin Luther King
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Author: Martin Luther KingISBN-10: 8200521907ISBN-13: 9798200521906Publisher: Mission AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2013Format: CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 5.80h x 5.60w x 0.60d- $21.99
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Vendor: Joan Druett
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Author: Joan DruettISBN-10: 1799992519ISBN-13: 9781799992516Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2016Format: CD- $13.99
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Vendor: Bill O'Reilly
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly The iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history--how one gunshot...- $29.99
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Vendor: Joyce E. Leader
From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide
2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title As deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide--a period of political wrangling, human rights abuses, and many levels of ominous, ever-escalating violence. From Hope to Horror offers her insider's account...- $50.00
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Vendor: Max Hastings
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta--an action-packed tale of courage, fortitude, loss, and triumph against all odds. In 1940, Hitler had two...- $44.99
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Vendor: Nathan Gorenstein
The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and found an important place in American culture. Few people...- $39.99
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Vendor: Robert C. Plumb
The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America
Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale came from backgrounds that ranged from abject enslavement to New York City's elite. Surmounting social and political obstacles, they emerged before and during the worst crisis in American history, the...- $32.95
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Vendor: Marcus Brotherton
A Bright and Blinding Sun: A World War II Story of Survival, Love, and Redemption
For fans of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz and Unbroken comes an incredible true war story of an underage soldier who experiences his first love and loss on the battlefields of Bataan and Corregidor, by New York Times bestseller Marcus Brotherton....- $45.00
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Vendor: Helen Carr
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
Medieval history from a rising star in the field, this is a biography of one of the most important figures of the age, John of Gaunt.John Gaunt was the son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV, and the...- $34.95
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Vendor: Stephen R. Bown
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's originsThe story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years and never...- $39.95
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Vendor: Woody Holton
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
A sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans--women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts, Liberty Is Sweet explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans...- $75.00
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Vendor: Edward T. Haslam
Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked t
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping expos of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this...- $44.99
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Vendor: Thomas G. Alexander
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith: Volume 31
As president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah's first territorial governor, Brigham Young (1801-77) shaped a religion, a migration, and the American West. He led the Saints to Utah, guided the establishment of 350 settlements, and inspired the Mormons...- $29.95
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Vendor: Jacques Barzun
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Drawing on a lifetime of studies across a broad territory, highly regarded cultural historian and critic Jacques Barzun here synthesizes the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form...- $39.95
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Vendor: Ada Ferrer
Cuba: An American History
An epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day--written by one of the world's leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States...- $39.99
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Vendor: Tim Brady
Three Ordinary Girls Lib/E: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins-And WWII Heroes
May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, who...- $66.99
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Vendor: Annalee Newitz
Four Lost Cities Lib/E: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Author: Annalee NewitzISBN-10: 1665115610ISBN-13: 9781665115612Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2021Format: CDWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 6.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d- $64.99
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Vendor: Christopher M. Rein
The Second Colorado Cavalry: A Civil War Regiment on the Great Plains Volume 69
During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains--and in the westward expansion of the American empire. Christopher M. Rein's The Second Colorado Cavalry is the first...- $34.95
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Vendor: Michael K. Brantley
Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate
Galvanized is a thought-provoking work well suited to the contemplative general reader.--Kathryn A. McKee, North Carolina Historical ReviewEvery Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by Wright Stephen Batchelor. Like most North Carolina farmers, Batchelor eschewed...- $28.95
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Vendor: Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis "One of...- $45.00
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