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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
$19.95 Add to cartNOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY, Winter Journey
Set amid the growing tyranny of Germany’s Third Reich, here is the riveting and emotional tale of G?uml;nther Goldschmidt and Rosemarie Gumpert, two courage
- Author: Goldsmith, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0471078646
- Language: English
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The Man Who Would Be King
$25.99 Add to cartThe Man Who Would Be King is the riveting story that inspired Kipling’s classic tale and a John Huston movie
In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an ele- Author: Ben, MacIntyre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529574
- Language: English
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
$30.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
When her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an- Author: Weber, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427344
- Language: English
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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as “the Founding Fathers”–who… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bernstein, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190273518
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Wife
$18.99 Add to cartLittle is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England’s greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Greer, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0061537160
- Language: English
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Life Fighting: Why We Must Sometimes Fight, and How to Do So Well
$15.75 Add to cartFighting has gotten a bad name; it should not be so. Fighting itself is neither moral nor immoral; only its object can be said to be so. We may count the ability to fight well, when applied to a just
- Author: Sweet, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: February 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0578840375
- Language: English
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Savarkar
$32.95 Read moreAs the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers an
- Author: Sampath, Vikram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0670090301
- Language: English
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Little Lodges on the Prairie: Freemasonry & Laura Ingalls Wilder
$33.33 Add to cartThe Little House on the Prairie books and TV show have inspired generations, but few people know the history of the Ingalls family in Freemasonry.
Why did they join this mysterious organization, and wh
- Author: Lynn, Teresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1950481174
- Language: English
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Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
$14.95 Add to cartAlan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old
- Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
- Author: Haft, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0815611196
- Language: English
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Los Niños de Irena / Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2.500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
$17.95 Read moreTilar J. Mazzeo, autora bestseller de The New York Times, nos presenta una historia inspiradora sobre la extraordinaria y apasionante vida de Irena Sendler, una conmovedora versi?n femenina de Oskar S… [more below]
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 607315089X
- Language: Spanish
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Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49
$15.95 Add to cartIn September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating an
- Author: Last, Nella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 184668000X
- Language: English
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Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience
$14.99 Add to cartThe most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print.
The Salem witch trials of 1692 have assumed mythical status. Immortalised by Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, the
- Author: Francis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1841156779
- Language: English
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Back to Bremen
$14.99 Add to cartEdith R pke, her seven siblings, and their mother have learned to be silent and live inconspicuously….
It is 1939. On the cusp of World War II, the city of Bremen holds its breath with quiet unease.
- Author: Wilson, Cecelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1633732533
- Language: English
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William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary
$39.95 Add to cartWilliam Morris–the great 19th-century craftsman, designer, poet and writer–remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopi
- Series: Spectre
- Author: Thompson, E. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: March 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1604862432
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Denis Julien: Fur Trader
$11.50 Add to cartDenis Julien’s first biographer in 1933 called him the “Mysterious D. Julien” because so little was known about him. He was surmised to have been a fur trapper along the Green and Colorado Rivers in t
- Author: Knipmeyer, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: August 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1593309481
- Language: English
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The Fourth Guardsman: James Franklin “Bud” Ledbetter (1852-1937)
$22.95 Add to cartDuring the 1890s and past the turn of the century, the land of the Five Civilized Tribes (roughly the eastern half of present day Oklahoma, known as the Indian Territory) was a volcanic society ravage… [more below]
- Author: Shirley, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571685669
- Language: English
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Suncoast Empire: Bertha Honore Palmer, Her Family, and the Rise of Sarasota, 1910-1982
$18.95 Add to cartBertha Palmer, one of the richest and most famous socialites in the early 20th century, came to a backwater area of southwest Florida and tried her hand at agriculture and cattle raising. She turned S… [more below]
- Author: Cassell, Frank a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1561649856
- Language: English
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Get Carter: Backstage in History from JFK’s Assassination to the Rolling Stones
$19.95 Add to cartFor most of his life, Bill Carter has been hearing two words that either struck fear in his heart or caused it to race for an entirely different reason: Get Carter. Early in his career, this Arkansas … [more below]
- Author: Carter, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0977460428
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Monks of Paulestine: Volume 114
$39.95 Add to cartDuring the later fifth and early sixth centuries the most creative developments in Eastern Christian monasticism occurred not in Egypt or in Syria, but in Palestine, through the work of St Euthymius
- Series: Cistercian Studies #114
- Author: Cyril of Scythopolis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0879079142
- Language: English
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The Poetic Justice: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartThis inspiring memoir begins in 1983, on the day John Charles Thomas was sworn in as the first Black–and, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest–justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in the com
- Author: Thomas, John Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0813947839
- Language: English
