Historical
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Little Women Letters to Laurie: The Alcott Family Correspondence with Alfred Whitman, 1858 – 1891
$23.32 Add to cartA fascinating and deeply compelling collection of 67 letters written to Alfred Whitman, a model for the character of Laurie in Louisa May Alcott’s best-loved novel, Little Women. The letters are writt
- Author: Adams, Lis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: May 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798885909549
- Language: English
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My Life as a Whore: The Biography of Madam Laura Evens
$18.95 Add to cartAn extensively researched book about a well-known Colorado madam, but most of what’s known about her is wrong, including the spelling of her last name. Follow the antics of Laura as she works in parlo
- Author: Beach, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1555664628
- Language: English
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Meet the Beatles: A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World
$17.99 Add to cartRob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what t
- Author: Stark, Steven D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0060008938
- Language: English
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Never Give in: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill
$19.99 Add to cartWhat was it that made Winston Churchill one of the most extraordinary leaders of the 20th century? What enabled him to inspire nations while those around him were losing hope? This book is a remarkabl… [more below]
- Series: Leaders in Action
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: September 20 2002
- ISBN10: 1581823223
- Language: English
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
$16.99 Add to cart“Extraordinary. . . . It is a tribute to Starkey’s narrative drive, his puckish wit, and sharp discrimination that it doesn’t seem a page too long. . . . With each queen, Starkey offers a vivid charac
- Author: Starkey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: May 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 0060005505
- Language: English
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
$19.99 Add to cartLegendary journalist Cokie Roberts’ New York Times bestseller, Founding Mothers, is an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf
- Author: Roberts, Cokie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 15 2005
- ISBN10: 006009026X
- Language: English
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A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History
$16.99 Add to cartA slave determined to gain freedom, a widow battling poverty and despair, a man of God grappling with spiritual and worldly troubles, and a former Confederate soldier seeking a new life. They lived in
- Author: Ash, Stephen V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060582480
- Language: English
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A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
$18.00 Add to cartA PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE “A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever–and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget.” –People An “excep… [more below]
- Author: Frenkel, Françoise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1501199854
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive biography of one of the most courageous women in American history “reveals Harriet Tubman to be even more remarkable than her legend” (Newsday).
Celebrated for her exploits as a conducto… [more below]- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 5, 2005
- ISBN10: 0316155942
- Language: English
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Mein Kampf (James Murphy Nazi Authorized Translation)
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the original English version of Mein Kampf translated by James Murphy under contract with the Nazi party. It was made before his altered British version was released and published in small num… [more below]
- Author: Hitler, Adolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: July 6, 2010
- ISBN10: 0984536159
- Language: English
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Survival in Auschwitz
$14.99 Add to cartSurvival in Auschwitz: If This Is a Man is a book written by the Italian author, Primo Levi. It describes his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War.
Levi, then
- Author: Primo Levi, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: August 25, 2007
- ISBN10: 9562915301
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan’s Underworld
$11.95 Add to cartThis is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn’t a “good” life, in either sense of the word… [more below]
- Author: Saga, Junichi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 22 2013
- ISBN10: 1568365047
- Language: English
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All But My Life: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein’s six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.
From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous- Author: Klein, Gerda Weissmann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0809016532
- Language: English
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My Early Life: 1874-1904
$22.00 Add to cartHere, in his own words, are the fascinating first thirty years in the life of one of the most provocative and compelling leaders of the twentieth century: Winston Churchill.
As a visionary, statesman,- Author: Churchill, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 06 1996
- ISBN10: 0684823454
- Language: English
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Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man Volume 23
$21.95 Add to cartMountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #23
- Author: Barbour, Barton H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141964
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
$18.99 Add to cartThe INSTANT New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award
Winner of the Chautauqua Prize
Finalist for the L- Author: Donner, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316561703
- Language: English
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
$25.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1101981008
- Language: English
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Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center
$24.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America’s most brilliant–and most divisive–scientists, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center v… [more below]
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0385722044
- Language: English
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Jack Hinson’s One-Man War
$27.95 Add to cartThe true story of one man’s reluctant but relentless war against the invaders of his country.A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. Opposed
- Author: McKenney, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 27 2009
- ISBN10: 1589806409
- Language: English
