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The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
$11.99 Add to cartA scandalous story of money, drugs, fast cars, high politics, lowly crime, hundreds of beautiful woman and one man, Porfirio Rubirosa from the celebrated author of RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL.
The Dominican
- Author: Levy, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0007171072
- Language: English
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Stumbling Blocks
$15.99 Add to cartStumbling Blocks, a second-generation Holocaust memoir, tells Jennifer’s and Paul’s stories.
Paul, Jennifer’s father, was born in Germany in 1928. At the age of ten, just after Kristallnacht, his paren
- Author: Krebs, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990538726
- Language: English
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen
$21.99 Add to cart“Bordo’s sharp reading of Boleyniana and her clear affection for this proud, unusual woman make this an entertaining, provocative read.”–Boston Globe
Part biography, part cultural history, The Creati- Author: Bordo, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0547834381
- Language: English
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Of Pardons and Presidents: Biography of Benton L. Becker Legal Counsel to the President
$15.99 Add to cartHighlighted by his experiences in San Clemente, California in September 1974 negotiating the pardon of President Nixon, Benton L. Becker is remembered in this thorough and heartwarming biography by hi
- Author: Becker, Brian C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822984264
- Language: English
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Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
$19.95 Add to cartConjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Viol… [more below]
- Author: Stillman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0299193942
- Language: English
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Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender
$28.00 Add to cartThe tragic story of ancient Greece’s last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination
In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of Macedon had seized a t- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0300269382
- Language: English
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Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story
$22.00 Add to cartA dazzling biography for readers of The Great Gatsby and other Lost Generation authors
Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; hand- Author: Vaill, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0767903706
- Language: English
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The Greatest American: Benjamin Franklin, the World’s Most Versatile Genius
$29.99 Add to cart“I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to have been born two or three centuries hence.” — Ben Franklin
Was Benjamin Franklin an indispensable public servant or a cunning chameleon? A- Author: Skousen, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1645721000
- Language: English
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The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
$28.99 Add to cartOnly two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they dined together, attended the weddings of each
- Author: Thompson, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0312658869
- Language: English
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The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
$17.99 Add to cartIn this definitive new biography, Carol Ann Lee provides the answer to one of the most heartbreaking questions of modern times: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis? Probing this startl
- Author: Lee, Carol Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0060520833
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Richard Castro: Bridging a Cultural Divide
$26.95 Read moreHispanic leader Richard Castro wasn’t above a good street fight. Denver police beat him bloody during a 1960’s confrontation, and political rivals later shot him and bombed his home. But he emerged fr… [more below]
- Author: Gould, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0942576500
- Language: English
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A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court
$32.99 Add to cartAn incredible sea story that turns the Age of Exploration on its head, following the first Japanese man to set foot on North America and England.
On November 12, 1588, five young Asian men–led by a- Author: Lockley, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1335016716
- Language: English
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Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and Useful Life
$29.99 Read morePart biography, part travelogue, part self-help, New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiration and practical lessons for … [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 150112904X
- Language: English
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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
$17.95 Add to cartDuring World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredib
- Author: Mayer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 28 2011
- ISBN10: 098411131X
- Language: English
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James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist
$22.95 Add to cartFounded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered Englan
- Author: Thurmond, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820366005
- Language: English
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Woody Guthrie: A Life
$23.00 Add to cartA biography of the influential American folk singer, Woody Guthrie, who lived a life on the edge of tragedy but inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.
Few ar- Author: Klein, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 09 1999
- ISBN10: 0385333854
- Language: English
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The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography
$20.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
‘I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ‘ said Gore Vidal. ‘He was remarkably prescient about t- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Adams, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 517
- Publish Date: May 11 1999
- ISBN10: 067964010X
- Language: English
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Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939
$16.99 Add to cartIn 1925 Flanner began her New Yorker “Letter from Paris,” from which most of the pieces in this collection are drawn. They give an incomparable view of French life before World War II. Edited by Irvin… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 18 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709902
- Language: English
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The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and the First Woman to Run for President
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of What the Ermine Saw and Behaving Badly, a portrait of Victoria Woodhull, a celebrated and maligned 19th-century businesswoman and activist, and a leader in the fight for w… [more below]
- Author: Collinsworth, Eden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549571
- Language: English
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Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books
$25.00 Add to cartA critical biography of the mysterious but prolific medieval printer.
Johannes Gutenberg is famous as the inventor of Europe’s first typographic printing method, and his life and legacy have long fas- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: White, Eric Marshall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390394
- Language: English
