Historical
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Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
$28.99 Read moreAmazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce’s extraordinary role as a human right
- Author: Metaxas, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0061173002
- Language: English
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Profiles in Courage
$22.00 Add to cartTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITY
With a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on t
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0062278797
- Language: English
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Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic
$32.00 Read moreA dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the common good.
In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the- Author: Osgood, Josiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541620119
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life
$21.95 Add to cartOf all the many biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, none has presented the twenty-sixth president as he saw himself: as a man of letters. This fascinating account traces Roosevelt’s lifelong engagement
- Author: Bailey, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493066722
- Language: English
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American Prometheus: Carnegie’s Captain, Bill Jones
$19.99 Add to cartAmerican Prometheus: Carnegie’s Captain, Bill Jones presents a compelling historical memoir of the illustrious life of rebellious steel genius and inventor, Captain Bill Jones.
Hero of the Civil War an
- Author: Gage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: April 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1947112015
- Language: English
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Butter in the Well: A Scandinavian Woman’s Tale of Life on the Prairie
$11.95 Add to cartRead the account of Kajsa Svensson Runeberg, an emigrant wife who recounts, through her diary, how she and her family built up a farm on the unsettled Kansas prairie. This historical fiction is based … [more below]
- Series: Butter in the Well
- Author: Hubalek, Linda K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: June 03 2003
- ISBN10: 1886652007
- Language: English
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The First Fighter Pilot – Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat
$29.95 Add to cartRoland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it at Versailles. He was a world-class athlete, a lawyer
- Author: Cobleigh, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1629671576
- Language: English
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Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations
$22.99 Add to cart“Never give in!” Winston Churchill is famous for admonishing: “This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never.” What most people don’t know is that when he said this he w… [more below]
- Author: Langworth, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1586489577
- Language: English
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Four Letters to the Witnesses of My Childhood
$19.95 Add to cartThe evocation of memory is wrought with emotional and historical significance in this distinctive holocaust memoir. With lyrical prose and remarkable candor, Helena Ganor narrates her story through a
- Series: Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust
- Author: Ganor, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0815608691
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition
$24.95 Add to cartPrinter and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age o
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0812219295
- Language: English
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Intimate Enemies: The Two Worlds of Baroness de Pontalba
$34.95 Add to cartBorn into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spe
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 23 2004
- ISBN10: 0807129623
- Language: English
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Ernie Pyle’s War: America’s Eyewitness to World War II
$19.99 Add to cartWhen a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, th
- Author: Tobin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0743284763
- Language: English
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Mary Queen of Scots
$20.00 Add to cart“A book that will leave few readers unmoved.”-San Francisco Chronicle
She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nat… [more below]- Author: Fraser, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 038531129X
- Language: English
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space
$26.00 Add to cartThe basis of the 2014 award-winning feature-length documentary A revealing and dramatic look at the inside of the American Space Program from one of its pioneers.
Eugene Cernan was a unique American- Author: Cernan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0312263511
- Language: English
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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
$26.00 Add to cartAn insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innoc- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Samuels, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300254008
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
$12.95 Read moreEminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liber… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Strachey, Lytton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019955501X
- Language: English
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Pillar of Salt: A Daughter’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
$19.95 Add to cartAs the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Anna Eisen’s memoir, “Pillar of Salt” breaks the down the barrier of silence that was intended as a protective shield for her parents and their children. From e… [more below]
- Author: Salton Eisen, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1942134827
- Language: English
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No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda
$19.95 Add to cartDuring 100 days in Spring 1994, Rwanda’s descent into terror took an estimated 800,000 lives. The fastest-moving genocide in modern times was horrifying for its intimacy: Killers and victims were neig
- Author: Seminega, Tharcisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1937188035
- Language: English
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Black Bart: Boulevardier Bandit: The Saga of California’s Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him
$12.95 Add to cartCalifornia Gold Country historian George Hoeper reveals what promises to be the final piece to the 100-year-old puzzle of the infamous stagecoach robber Black Bart. For over eight years the mysterious… [more below]
- Author: Hoeper, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1884995055
- Language: English
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Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970
$12.00 Add to cartInitially published on the twentieth anniversary of his death, this candid book reveals new information on the breakup of the Beatles, fellow musicians such as Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Lennon… [more below]
- Author: Wenner, Jann S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: December 17 2012
- ISBN10: 185984376X
- Language: English
