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Vendor: John Feinstein
Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports
Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting forCommentators, coaches, and fans alike have long touted the diverse rosters of...- $40.00
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Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
An incisive, gripping exploration of the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd and a definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning. For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of...- $40.00
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After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements
From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion...- $46.99
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They Called Us Lucky: The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
From the Arizona Congressman, a 21st-century Band of Brothers chronicling the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq WarAt first, they were Lucky Lima. Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company--3rd Battalion, 25th Marines,...- $41.99
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Vendor: Patrick Wyman
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve...- $40.00
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Vendor: Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It
In this New York Times bestselling must-read, executive producer and host of Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe presents a delightfully entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of personal memories,...- $29.99
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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....- $14.99
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery: The Abridgement of the Definitive Nebraska Edition
Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. This is the riveting account of their journey. In their own words,...- $39.95
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Vendor: Victor Herman
Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life
In 1931, a young American named Victor Herman accompanied his parents to the Soviet Union, where his father was to set up a Ford Motor Company plant. In 1938, he was inexplicably thrown into a Soviet prison. It was forty-five years before he was...- $32.95
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Vendor: David McCullough
Truman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is...- $14.99
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Vendor: David McCullough
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough. This monumental book is...- $39.95
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Vendor: Judy Batalion
The Light of Days CD: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters--a group of unknown heroes whose...- $44.99
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Vendor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when...- $75.00
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Vendor: David McCullough
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America's master historian, David McCullough....- $49.99
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Vendor: Alfred Lansing
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away...- $19.95
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Vendor: Bill O'Reilly
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Listeners around the world have been enthralled by Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic...- $34.99
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Vendor: Heather Greene
Whiskey Distilled: A Populist Guide to the Water of Life
In the populist tradition of Andrea Immer, New York City's first female whiskey sommelier translates today's hottest spirit for a new generation of imbibers Whiskey is in the midst of a huge renaissance. Ten years ago, the United States housed sixty-nine craft distillers; today,...- $36.99
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Vendor: David McCullough
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand for
A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others--that reminds us of fundamental American principles....- $24.99
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Vendor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and...- $49.99
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Vendor: Timothy Snyder
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in World War TwoAmericans call the Second World War The Good War.But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions...- $55.00
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Vendor: Jim DeFede
The Day the World Came to Town Lib/E: 9\/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland...- $49.99
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Vendor: Arthur M. Eckstein
Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC
This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the creation of the first stage of Roman dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to Syria by the 180s BC. Applying modern political theory to ancient...- $9.99
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Vendor: Orlando Figes
A People's Tragedy
Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People's Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....- $24.99
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A Tuscan Childhood
The enchantments of the Tuscan countryside are captured in this memoir of the idyllic Bohemian life the author shared with her family in their Italian castle in the years between the two world wars.When Kinta Beevor was five years old, her father, the painter...- $29.95
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Vendor: Richard White
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the...- $19.99
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Vendor: Andrew Chaikin
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were...- $47.99
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Vendor: Adin E. Lears
World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late Medieval England
Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. In World of Echo, Adin E. Lears traces how medieval thinkers adopted...- $51.95
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Vendor: Kathleen Krull
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children's ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a...- $19.95
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Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secretsThe war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning 70 years ago has come to be recognized as a critical...- $35.00
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Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and the Birth of the Indy 500
Hear the heart-pounding, engine-revving true story of the first Indy 500--America's most celebrated automobile race. In 1911, thousands of spectators gathered at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to watch 40 cars compete in the first annual Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. Better known as the Indy 500,...- $24.99
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The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript
Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release this fall of the film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial...- $44.99
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The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II
Critically acclaimed when published in 1992 as Round Up the Usual Suspects, The Making of Casablanca offers the ultimate insider's look at the politics and personalities behind the most celebrated movie of all time--Casablanca. Updated and timed for the 60th anniversary (Thanksgiving Day, 1942)...- $14.99
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Vendor: Anne Glenconner
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
**International Bestseller**An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Lady Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The Crown.Lady Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood,...- $34.00
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Vendor: Steve Silverman
The Flip Side of History: Strange News, Hard-To-Believe Headlines, and Other Curious Stories from History
In this collection of true, quirky history, Steve Silverman provides fascinating tales to astonish and entertain. Covering a wide variety of topics, these stories that have been lost to history highlight the quirks, complexities, and curious nature of our species.Hidden History, Strange Stories, and...- $29.95
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Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography
The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger - at least for those who neither revere nor revile him.Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised - and reviled - public figure. He was hailed as a "miracle worker" for his...- $29.99
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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters: A BBC Radio 4 Adaptation
Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.'Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are...- $12.95
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Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
A warm and invigorating memoir about a daughter's love for her father and her appreciation for how he and others changed the game of football forever.Gene Washington's football career ended long before his daughter Maya was born. She never saw the legendary powerhouse as...- $24.99
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Vendor: Stephen Walker
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
"This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling....It is high definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched." (The Times, London, Front Page Lead Review) "Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded...- $44.99
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Vendor: Bob Blaisdell
Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine
The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature and we return to her, and the novel she propels, again and again. Remarkably, there...- $14.99
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The Black Joke: One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.The most feared ship in Britain's West Africa Squadron, His Majesty's brig Black Joke was one of...- $39.99
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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...- $41.99
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Vendor: Tom Wolfe
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine: And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays
In this 1976 collection of essays, Americana icon Tom Wolfe explores the social status strife of the 1970s, eviscerating trends of faux-sympathy and self-absorption, going as far as to coin the term The 'Me' Decade to describe the period's narcissism. And when paired with...- $24.99
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Vendor: Edward Slingerland
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
A entertaining and enlightening deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization--and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication. (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised) While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have...- $38.99
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days Lib/E: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
The true story of the extraordinary life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany, who was executed on Hitler's direct order--uncovered by her great-great-niece in this riveting, deeply researched account.Born and raised...- $100.99
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Vendor: Ethan Michaeli
Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel
In Twelve Tribes, Ethan Michaeli proves he is a master portraitist - of lives, places, and cultures. His rendering of contemporary Israel crackles with energy, fueled by a historian's vision and a journalist's unrelenting curiosity. -- Evan Osnos, New York Times bestselling author of...- $51.99
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Vendor: Heather Demetrios
Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall
Code Name Verity meets Inglourious Basterds in this riotous, spirited biography of the most dangerous of all Allied spies, courageous and kickass Virginia Hall.When James Bond was still in diapers, Virginia Hall was behind enemy lines, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse...- $39.99
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Vendor: Neda Toloui-Semnani
They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents
From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations.In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise...- $24.99
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They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents
From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and the tumultuous history of two nations.In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani's parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise...- $34.99
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Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War
In this provocative, impassioned memoir, Jerad W. Alexander reveals what it was like to be raised on war, vividly recreating the masculine fantasies of American heroism and patriotism that animated his childhood--and at the same time brilliantly dismantling those myths. To many outsiders, joining...- $41.99
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Vendor: James Poskett
Horizons Lib/E: The Global Origins of Modern Science
The history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught. When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe....- $76.99
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