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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
$18.00 Read moreThe compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, … [more below]
- Author: Applegate, Debby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0307744124
- Language: English
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The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew at His Side
$18.99 Add to cart“A thoroughly enjoyable story of heroism and true friendship” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War
- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 21, 2015
- ISBN10: 1476739153
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
$20.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed literary biographer, a riveting and groundbreaking account of what happened to the survivors of the Titanic.
We think we know the story of the Titanic–the once majestic and supposed- Author: Wilson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1451671571
- Language: English
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Sam Houston
$55.43 Add to cartIn the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and
- Author: Haley, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 513
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0806136448
- Language: English
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Blackbeard: America’s Most Notorious Pirate
$34.99 Add to cartA thorough, exciting examination of 18th-century pirate life, with wonderful details.
“Interesting and exciting . . . a thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of an interesting life and int
–Publishers Weekly- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 047175885X
- Language: English
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Christopher Lee: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
$37.33 Add to cartInternational film actor Christopher Lee details his childhood, war years, friendships with Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Robert Bloch and Boris Karloff, and, of course, his varied and interesting fil
- Author: Lee, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: November 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1887664254
- Language: English
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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
$21.99 Add to cartThe astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South.
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton- Author: Hamilton, Mary Mann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316341371
- Language: English
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
$20.99 Add to cartFrom Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America’s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminat… [more below]
- Author: Morgan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201894
- Language: English
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The Orchard: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartA stirring memoir of a young, single woman’s laborious struggle to save her family’s New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression.
The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and p- Series: Nonpareil Books #9
- Author: Robertson, Adele Crockett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927262
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World But Fueled the Rise of Hitler
$20.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives–including your own.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing- Author: Hager, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0307351793
- Language: English
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Here First: Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine
$22.95 Add to cartOn March 16, 1621, Samoset, a sagamore of the Wawenock, cemented his place in history. He was the first Indigenous person to make contact with the colonists at Plymouth Plantation, startling them when
- Author: Bachelder, Jody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750067
- Language: English
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
$30.00 Read moreThe true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico–and faced bloody consequences.
In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise o- Author: Shawcross, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1541674197
- Language: English
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Hospital and Haven: The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska
$34.95 Add to cartHospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich’in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the p… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlander, Mary F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236181
- Language: English
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A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika
$14.95 Add to cartIn this starkly candid account of one boy’s indoctrination into the Hitler Youth, we see a side of Nazism that has been little recorded. This autobiographical account is a rare glimpse at World War II… [more below]
- Author: Heck, Alfons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0939650444
- Language: English
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Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter
$29.95 Add to cartUnmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South’s most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the Nort
- Author: Carter, Dan T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1588384810
- Language: English
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The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam
$18.95 Read moreNgo Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam, possessed the Confucian “Mandate of Heaven”, a moral and political authority that was widely recognized by all Vietnamese. This devout Ro
- Author: Shaw, Geoffrey D. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1621646130
- Language: English
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The Unlikely Governor
$24.95 Add to cartA true American odyssey, Robert Heller chronicles the journey from his childhood in wartime Germany to the United States and his career that led him to become Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and… [more below]
- Author: Heller, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0996439021
- Language: English
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The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant: (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
$29.95 Read moreWritten in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady Julia Dent
- Series: World of Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Simon, John Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0809314436
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry
$23.95 Add to cart“Fry was the American Schindler…with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes… think] Casablanca.”
–New York Times
Varian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vash
- Author: Isenberg, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0595348823
- Language: English
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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 – 1964
$28.99 Add to cartThe bestselling classic that indelibly captures the life and times of one of the most brilliant and controversial military figures of the twentieth century.
“Electric…Tense with the feeling that this… [more below]- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0316024740
- Language: English
