Historical
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Children of Terror
$12.95 Add to cartThis book is an “Honorable-Mention Awardee 2015” from Readers Favorite under Non-Fiction/Autobiography category.
Two very young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, are cau
- Author: Auerbacher, Inge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 04 2009
- ISBN10: 1440178097
- Language: English
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The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
$24.99 Add to cartEverybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, America’s most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much better tale. Kidd was actually a tough New York sea captai… [more below]
- Author: Zacks, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: June 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0786884517
- Language: English
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Anna and the King of Siam
$17.99 Add to cartThe bestselling book that inspired the musical play and film The King and I
“Enchanting. . . . The author wears her scholarship with grace, and the amazing story she has to tell is recounted with humor
- Author: Landon, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0060954884
- Language: English
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The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Karla, Gottlieb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0865435650
- Language: English
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Nestor Makhno–Anarchy’s Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921
$24.95 Add to cartAvailable for the first time in English, here’s the gripping story of Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno. With his usual wit and engaging style, Skirda chronicles the life of a legend and the insurgent
- Author: Skirda, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1902593685
- Language: English
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His Excellency: George Washington
$20.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400032539
- Language: English
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You Only Know What You Know
$46.95 Add to cartAbout age seventy-four, living in Dallas, Texas, Marcia joined a local church active in missions. After taking a course on missions, she joined two mission trips: Africa and Kazakhstan. Sharing her ad
- Author: Hutchison, Marcia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: August 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1685263461
- Language: English
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The Journal of John Woolman: And a Plea for the Poor
$16.00 Add to cartThe “journal” or spiritual autobiography of John Woolman was the characteristic literary expression of Quakerism in its first two centuries. Woolman’s Journal was first published in 1774 (shortly afte… [more below]
- Author: Woolman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 19 1972
- ISBN10: 0806502940
- Language: English
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Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War
$63.32 Add to cartTo Jefferson Davis, he was the “Stonewall of the West”; to Robert E. Lee, he was “a meteor shining from a clouded sky”; and to Braxton Bragg, he was an officer “ever alive to a success.” He was Patric… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: April 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0700609342
- Language: English
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America’s First Frontier
$20.00 Add to cartOften hailed as the godfather of today’s elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on “impossible” missions … [more below]
- Author: Ross, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0553384570
- Language: English
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Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend
$25.00 Add to cartAcclaim for Doc Holliday
“Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western ‘good-bad men’ to- Author: Roberts, Gary L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0470128224
- Language: English
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Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America
$19.99 Add to cartAn authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a nation
How did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the Declaration of Independence and defeat the powerful British army? H- Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0470117923
- Language: English
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Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship
$21.99 Add to cartJack and Lem explores the enduring friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne Billings (aka “Lem”). Jack Kennedy and Lem Billings met at Choate and remained friends until the Dallas gunfire t… [more below]
- Author: Pitts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0306816237
- Language: English
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My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbr?k Survivor
$18.99 Add to cartAn international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edi… [more below]
- Author: Van de Perre, Selma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1982164689
- Language: English
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Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary, the First Complete Edition
$19.99 Add to cartA wonderful edition of a Jewish WWII heroine’s widely read and cherished diary, also including many of Hannah’s poems and letters, memoirs written by her mother and accounts by other parachutists who … [more below]
- Author: Senesh, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1580233422
- Language: English
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A Man and His Ship: America’s Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States
$20.99 Add to cart“A fascinating historical account…A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country’s mid-century greatness” (The Wall Street Journal) as a man endeavors to build the finest, fastest, m… [more below]
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1451645090
- Language: English
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Napoleon
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend
On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Na- Author: Forrest, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250038359
- Language: English
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Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939
$27.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – This landmark biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs.
“[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how t- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1101872055
- Language: English
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Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAngela’s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt’s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I ma- Series: Frank McCourt Memoirs
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 05 1996
- ISBN10: 0684874350
- Language: English
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany
$18.99 Add to cartThis is a story of the unexpected.In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir — an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. T
- Author: Massaquoi, Hans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0060959614
- Language: English
