Historical
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Co. Aytch: A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA classic Civil War memoir, Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. It is a
- Author: Watkins, Sam R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01, 2003
- ISBN10: 0743255410
- Language: English
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Bill W: The Absorbing and Deeply Moving Life Story of Bill Wilson, Co-Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
$17.95 Read moreRobert Thomsen’s biography describes the story of Bill W., a stirring spiritual odyssey through triumph, failure, and rebirth, with vital meaning for men and women everywhere.
This is the story of a m- Series: Absorbing and Deeply Moving Life Story of Bill Wilson, Co-Fo
- Author: Thomsen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 31 1999
- ISBN10: 1568383436
- Language: English
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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
$16.95 Add to cartWith an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designate… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 12 1980
- ISBN10: 0394738624
- Language: English
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Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa.
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars- Author: Mathabane, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 1998
- ISBN10: 0684848287
- Language: English
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1451668848
- Language: English
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A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
$19.95 Add to cartBorn to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after fi
- Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
- Author: Said, Omar Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0299249549
- Language: English
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American Spy: My Secret History in the Cia, Watergate and Beyond
$35.95 Add to cartStartling revelations from the OSS, the CIA, and the Nixon White house
Think you know everything there is to know about the OSS, the Cold War, the CIA, and Watergate? Think again. In American Spy, one
- Author: Hunt, E. Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0471789828
- Language: English
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Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography
$19.00 Read moreDrawing on the unique historical sites, archives, expertise, and unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, New York Times bestselling authors Sid Jacobson and Ernie Col? have create
- Author: Jacobson, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0809026856
- Language: English
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Seven Virginians: The Men Who Shaped Our Republic
$34.95 Add to cartSeven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America’s leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American R
- Author: Boles, John B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0813949092
- Language: English
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Under Cover for Wells Fargo: The Unvarnished Recollections of Fred Dodge
$21.95 Add to cartThese are the remarkable memoirs of Fred Dodge (1854-1938), Wells Fargo secret agent for fifty years, friend of Wyatt Earp, and fast man with a gun. Here are dozens of his cases–stage robberies, trai
- Series: Western Frontier Library (Paperback) #63
- Author: Dodge, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0806131063
- Language: English
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The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
$19.99 Add to cartThe unlikely king who saved England.
Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers
- Author: Merkle, Benjamin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1595552529
- Language: English
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A Bag of Marbles
$22.00 Add to cartWhen Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father gave him and his brother fifty francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to the south where France was free. Previously out … [more below]
- Author: Joffo, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0226400697
- Language: English
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Washington: A Life
$41.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States.
Winner of the 2011 Pul- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1594202664
- Language: English
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Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego
$29.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 San Diego Book Award
Empire Builder is the previously untold story of a pioneer who almost singlehandedly transformed the bankrupt village of San Diego into a thriving city. When he- Author: Bonura, Sandra E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233417
- Language: English
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The Wright Brothers
$34.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestseller
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and- Author: McCullough, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1476728747
- Language: English
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
$45.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of The Wall Street Journal‘s Ten Best Books of 2018
One of The Economist‘s Best Books of 2018
One of The New York Times‘s Notable Books of 2018 “Unarguably the best single-- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1101980990
- Language: English
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Mother’s Day: The Courage & Sacrifice of the 3rd Battalion 25th Marines
$33.73 Add to cartMother’s Day: The Courage & Sacrifice of the 3rd Battalion 25th Marines. In his debut book, Cleveland gives a first-hand account of his time with the 3/25, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. His b
- Author: Cleveland, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 108819821X
- Language: English
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Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became World War II’s Most Highly Decorated Spy
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist
Florida Book Awards Silver Medalist
Featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, New York Newsday, and o- Author: Loftis, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1501198661
- Language: English
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY – ONE OF ESQUIRE‘S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the … [more below]- Author: Reiss, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0307382478
- Language: English
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La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot–Cardinal Richelieu’s Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France
$28.95 Read moreA rich portrait of a compelling, complex woman who emerged from a sheltered rural childhood into the fraught, often deadly world of the French royal court and Parisian high society–and who would come… [more below]
- Author: McShea, Bronwen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363475
- Language: English
