Historical
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
$21.99 Add to cartThis “glorious” revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)–the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American
- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316441090
- Language: English
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
$38.00 Add to cartThe definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book hist… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679406417
- Language: English
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Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
$24.95 Add to cartIn The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the “most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.” That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslave… [more below]
- Series: Race and Ethnicity in the American West
- Author: Burton, Arthur T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233425
- Language: English
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About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
$28.00 Add to cartCalled “everything a war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this all-time classic of the military memoir genre now includes a new forward from bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jo
- Author: Hackworth, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 1982144041
- Language: English
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The Pillow Book
$20.00 Add to cartThe classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan
Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life am- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Shonagon, Sei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140448063
- Language: English
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The Early Life and Times of David Crockett in East Tennessee: A Lifelong Study
$16.95 Add to cartDavid Crockett was one of America’s first national celebrities. He carved out a name for himself from the Western frontier lands of East Tennessee to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. He did t
- Author: Swann, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1961302209
- Language: English
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A Promised Land
$45.00 Add to cartA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making–from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE – NAMED O- Author: Obama, Barack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1524763160
- Language: English
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Prometeo Americano. El Libro Que Inspiró La PelÃcula Oppenheimer / American Prom Etheus
$29.95 Read morePremio Pulitzer 2006 / National Book Critics Circle Award 2005 / Duff Cooper Prize 2008
La biograf?a definitiva de Oppenheimer, el p
EL LIBRO QUE HA INSPIRADO LA NUEVA PELICULA DE NOLAN, OPPENHEIMER- Author: Bird, Kai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 8418967986
- Language: Spanish
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The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
$21.00 Add to cartTHE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.
In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remar- Author: Harrington, Joel F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 31, 2013
- ISBN10: 1250043611
- Language: English
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Cleopatra: A Life
$21.99 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.
Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but- Author: Schiff, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 06, 2011
- ISBN10: 0316001945
- Language: English
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The Dry Divide
$16.95 Add to cartRalph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses a
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0803282168
- Language: English
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The Genius of Their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment
$30.99 Add to cartA vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and rivals, Ibn Sina and Biruni.
In The Genius of their Age,… [more below]- Author: Starr, S. Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0197675557
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies
$25.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
NPR Best Book of the Year
“Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.” —The New York Times
Joining the ranks
- Author: Fagone, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 28, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062430513
- Language: English
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Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
$35.00 Add to cartA definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian
Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over nearly four- Author: Sarris, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601335
- Language: English
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
$24.00 Add to cartDoris Kearns Goodwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depre
- Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0684804484
- Language: English
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Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
$35.00 Read moreA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – AN LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST – A WASHINGTON POST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela’s
- Author: Steinberg, Jonny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525656855
- Language: English
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
$17.99 Add to cartFor the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep Geis’s own astonishing story.For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Na… [more below]
- Author: Gies, Miep
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 10, 2009
- ISBN10: 1416598855
- Language: English
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Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
$0.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Nonfiction of the Year
One of PEOPLE’s Top 10 Books of the Year
“Delicious and infuriating…unputdownable.” —Sadie Stein, New York Times
- Author: Ciuraru, Carmela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062356917
- Language: English
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
$19.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A landmark work of history explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, a… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0375705244
- Language: English
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Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
$17.99 Add to cartA thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Recipient of an Abraham Li… [more below]
- Author: Shenk, Joshua Wolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618773444
- Language: English
