Historical
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Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla
$24.99 Add to cartNowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri–and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brief but dramatic period, “Bloody Bill” played the leading role… [more below]
- Author: Castel, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0700614346
- Language: English
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A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
$21.99 Add to cartThomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A Lucky Child. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 afte… [more below]
- Author: Buergenthal, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0316339180
- Language: English
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The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
$20.00 Add to cartA “well-researched and very readable new biography” (The Wall Street Journal) of “the Thomas Edison of guns,” a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of fire… [more below]
- Author: Gorenstein, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1982129220
- Language: English
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Seven Years in Tibet
$17.00 Add to cartThe astonishing adventure classic about life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover is now repackaged for a new generation of readers.
In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copie- Author: Harrer, Heinrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2009
- ISBN10: 1585427438
- Language: English
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The Autobiography and Other Writings
$12.00 Add to cartBenjamin Franklin’s writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin’s … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437603
- Language: English
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness
$11.99 Add to cartBorn into a loving family, Dietrich Bonhoeffer pursued a life as a pastor, teacher, theologian — and spy. He spoke out about the trouble in Germany when Adolph Hitler came to power, urging the Christ… [more below]
- Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1576587134
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
$32.95 Read moreBetween 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the
- Author: Nisbet, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0874222850
- Language: English
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Age of Secrets: The Conspiracy that Toppled Richard Nixon and the Hidden Death of Howard Hughes
$19.99 Add to cartAn acclaimed award-winning non-fiction international political thriller exposing the real reason for Watergate, the hidden death of Howard Hughes, and the illicit activities of the CIA, with the CIA’s
- Author: Bellett, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: August 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1778287417
- Language: English
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
$22.99 Add to cartAn engrossing biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Team of Rivals
Hailed by the New York Times as “the most penetrating, fascinating political biography I ha- Author: Kearns Goodwin, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1250313961
- Language: English
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A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
$18.99 Add to cart“An absorbing, perceptive biography…Deftly crafted history illuminates the nation’s earliest days.” —Kirkus Reviews
Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea- Author: Mack, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1641605987
- Language: English
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The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty
$21.99 Read more“Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating.”–Jon Meacham
Based on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first b
- Author: Thompson, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268590
- Language: English
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
$18.99 Add to cartIn the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0743400690
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed She-Wolves, the complex, surprising, and engaging story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world–as never told before.
Helen Castor tells afresh the g
- Author: Castor, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0062384406
- Language: English
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Bismarck: A Life
$25.99 Add to cartThis riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian cul… [more below]
- Author: Steinberg, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199975396
- Language: English
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
$20.99 Add to cartThe revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.
“[Lars… [more below]- Author: Larson, Kate Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0544811909
- Language: English
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Hope Against Hope: Introduction by Maria Stepanova
$32.00 Read moreNadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of life with her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin’s Soviet Union and one of the most moving testaments to the value of literature… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Mandelstam, Nadezhda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 110190836X
- Language: English
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Bending Toward Justice: A Memoir of Two Decades of LGBT Leadership and the Founding of the Human Rights Campaign
$21.00 Add to cart “Drawing on his experience as the first executive director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Vic Basile has written a valuable addition to the story of one of the most consequential movement
- Author: Basile, Vic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985034165
- Language: English
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The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance
$18.95 Read more“[Colby] breathes new life into well-trodden WWII tropes, building a vivid, novelistic narrative focused on memory and family.” — Publishers Weekly
“The writing is vivid and lyrical, the narratives
- Author: Colby, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417354
- Language: English
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.
In July 1865, “Wild Bill” Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Spr- Series: Frontier Lawmen
- Author: Clavin, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1250178169
- Language: English
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The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero
$23.99 Add to cartThe “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. … [more below]
- Author: Canellos, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1501188216
- Language: English
