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Vendor: Kathleen Sheppard
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there...- $45.95
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Vendor: Rosemarie Terenzio
JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography
The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories and insights, his closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers, and colleagues paint a vivid portrait of one of the...- $55.99
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Vendor: Edward Dolnick
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.In the early 1800s the world was a safe and...- $39.99
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Vendor: Ian Fleming
Diamond Smugglers: The True Story of an International Crime Ring and Its Downfall, Told by the Creator of James Bond
THE TRUE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING AND ITS DOWNFALLIn 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a Bond adventure. Aided by an ex-MI5...- $31.99
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Vendor: Eric Weiner
Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life
New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiring and practical lessons in a book that's part biography, part travelogue, part personal prescription.Ben Franklin lingers in our lives and in our imaginations. One of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Mark Miodownik
It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
The New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.Gases are all around us--they fill our lungs, power our movement, create stars, and warm...- $45.95
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Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a...- $55.99
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Vendor: Dan Hampton
Vanishing ACT: The Enduring Mystery Behind the Legendary Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo
From New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton comes the gripping, untold story of a vital secret mission set during the darkest days of the Second World War. In the dark days after the devastating Pearl Harbor attacks during the spring of 1942, the...- $49.99
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Vendor: Richard Behar
Madoff: The Final Word
Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff's arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar delivers the definitive account of history's largest--and longest-running--financial fraud.Some $65 billion evaporated during Bernie Madoff's epic confidence game. Two people were driven to suicide in the wake of the Ponzi Scheme's exposure. Others...- $39.99
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Vendor: James Bradley
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
""Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader."" --ROBERT MACFARLANE, bestselling author...- $45.95
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Vendor: David Weston Marshall
Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West
If you seek vicarious adventure, these pages await the armchair explorer. --Providence Journal In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the twenty-eight-month ordeal, Colter served as a...- $45.95
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Vendor: Joe Barrett
Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa
In May 1943, a self-described really young, green, ignorant lieutenant assumed command of a new U.S. Marine Corps company. His even younger enlisted Marines were learning to use an untested weapon, the M4A2 Sherman medium tank. His sole combat veteran was the company bugler,...- $41.99
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
Author: Stephen KinzerISBN-10: 8200133451ISBN-13: 9798200133451Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2008Format: CD- $20.99
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Vendor: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach. She...- $34.99
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Vendor: Matthew Rowley
Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again
This book explores how polarized interpretations of America's past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America should remember historical racism, sexism, and exploitation. Additionally,...- $35.99
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Vendor: John Gilbert McCurdy
Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who had been accused of having sex with a man. Newburgh's enemies cited his flamboyant appearance, defiance of military authority, and seduction of soldiers as proof...- $45.99
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Vendor: David Greenberg
John Lewis: A Life
A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.Born into poverty in...- $94.99
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Vendor: David M. Rubenstein
The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency
From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein--David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama,...- $55.99
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Vendor: H. Keith Melton
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Author: H. Keith Melton, Robert WallaceISBN-13: 9798874798086Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2024Format: CD- $39.99
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Vendor: Rebecca Nagle
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights...- $49.99
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Vendor: Jack Carr
Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror
The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut....- $39.99
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Vendor: Tyler Mahan Coe
Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette
From the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music's legendary royal couple--George Jones and Tammy Wynette.By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the...- $94.99
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Vendor: Ian Fleming
Diamond Smugglers: The True Story of an International Crime Ring and Its Downfall, Told by the Creator of James Bond
THE TRUE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING AND ITS DOWNFALLIn 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a Bond adventure. Aided by an ex-MI5...- $41.99
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Vendor: Martin Luther King
I've Been to the Mountaintop
A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's last speech ""I've Been to the Mountaintop,"" part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the pulpit of Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, and...- $25.99
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Vendor: Rachel Kousser
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
A riveting biography of Alexander the Great's final years, when the leader's insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy. By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or...- $45.95
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Vendor: James Bradley
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
""Deep Water is a major achievement....Bradley's skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate and urgent book, characterized throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self and reader."" --ROBERT MACFARLANE, bestselling author...- $55.99
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Vendor: Andrew Gordon
Neptune's Admiral: The Life of Sir Bertram Ramsay, Commander of Dunkirk and D-Day
Author: Andrew GordonISBN-10: 1982644141ISBN-13: 9781982644147Publisher: Blackstone PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2025Format: MP3 CD- $31.95
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Vendor: Helena Rosenblatt
The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to today. The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry--and a term of derision--in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers...- $41.99
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Vendor: Roger Wayne
Hang Tough: The WWII Letters and Artifacts of Major Dick Winters
The compelling WWII correspondence of Major Dick Winters, commander of the Band of Brothers. Major Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne gained international acclaim when the tale of he and his men were depicted in the celebrated book and miniseries Band of Brothers. Hoisted...- $46.99
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Vendor: Bill Andrew Quinn
The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname the black Mecca. Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that...- $46.99
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Vendor: Chuck Tatum
Red Blood, Black Sand: Fighting Alongside John Basilone from Boot Camp to Iwo Jima
Author: Chuck TatumISBN-13: 9798200046010Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2014Format: MP3 CD- $41.99
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Vendor: Bob Souer
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
Author: Bob Souer, Brian AlexanderISBN-10: 1665143460ISBN-13: 9781665143462Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2017Format: MP3 CD- $29.99
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Vendor: John Lukacs
A Short History of the Twentieth Century
Author: John LukacsISBN-10: 8200057348ISBN-13: 9798200057344Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2013Format: CD- $36.99
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Vendor: Doug Bradley
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
Author: Doug Bradley, Craig WernerISBN-10: 1665266317ISBN-13: 9781665266314Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/2017Format: CD- $46.99
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Vendor: Mark Arax
West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West," and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the...- $29.95
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Vendor: Larry Loftis
The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones
The international bestselling author of the "exciting, suspenseful, inspirational" (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Code Name: Lise weaves another exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS's most daring spies in World War...- $39.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Clements
The First Emperor of China
The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century . . . Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child....- $39.99
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Vendor: Arthur M. Schlesinger
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best." --Time Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency--from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic...- $69.95
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Vendor: Jonathan Clements
The First Emperor of China
The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century . . . Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child....- $45.95
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Vendor: Tyler A. Pitrof
Too Far on a Whim: The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy
In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy's commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof's research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the Imperial Japanese Navy, the...- $45.95
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Vendor: Tyler A. Pitrof
Too Far on a Whim: The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy
In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy's commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof's research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the Imperial Japanese Navy, the...- $39.99
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Vendor: Anthony M. DeStefano
Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon, the Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York
Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner,...- $45.99
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Vendor: Anthony M. DeStefano
Broadway Butterfly: Vivian Gordon, the Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York
Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner,...- $45.95
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Vendor: Arthur M. Schlesinger
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best." --Time Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency--from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic...- $85.99
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Vendor: Anthony Grafton
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus--a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one....- $45.95
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Vendor: Stephen Puleo
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
In the tempestuous mid-nineteenth century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when the very future of the nation hung in the balance-Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest, bravest, and most unwavering. Where others preached compromise and moderation, he...- $59.99
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Vendor: Stephen Puleo
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
In the tempestuous mid-nineteenth century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when the very future of the nation hung in the balance-Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest, bravest, and most unwavering. Where others preached compromise and moderation, he...- $59.95
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Vendor: Todd Balf
Three Kings: Race, Class, and the Barrier-Breaking Rivals Who Launched the Modern Olympic Age
For fans of The Boys in the Boat, and marking the 100th anniversary of the Paris Olympics, the never-before-told story of three athletes who defied the odds to usher in a golden age of sportsEven today, it's considered one of the most thrilling races...- $45.99
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Vendor: Nick Corasaniti
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey--featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Southside Johnny, members of the E Street Band and Asbury Jukes, the Ramones,...- $46.99
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Vendor: Garrett M. Graff
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most up-to-date and complete account of D-Day--the largest seaborne invasion in history and the moment that secured the Allied victory in World...- $49.99
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