Historical
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$24.00 Add to cart“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, ” is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait o… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970314
- Language: English
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The Linville River Romance
$24.95 Add to cartIn the Highlands of North Carolina, there is a small town called Pineola, where the winters are brutally cold and snowy. In the 1920s, logging and mining were the main ways of life, and the railroad w
- Author: Pritchard, Lowell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: December 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893457933
- Language: English
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After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
$17.99 Read moreTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
‘A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope’
GUARDIAN, ‘Books to Give You Hope’ ‘- Author: Schloss, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 1444760718
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
$40.00 Add to cart**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**
“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped sl- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1416590315
- Language: English
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Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
$19.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.
The visionary- Author: Kinzer, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1250762626
- Language: English
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Next Stop Execution: The Autobiography of Oleg Gordievsky
$20.99 Add to cartOleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain.
For eleven years, from 1974 to 1985, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while
- Author: Gordievsky, Oleg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: May 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1839014903
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
$21.99 Add to cartA candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.
The daughter of one o
- Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062355910
- Language: English
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The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartThe harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
- Author: Rawicz, Slavomir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 149302261X
- Language: English
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And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II
$19.95 Add to cartThe book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century,- Author: Lusseyran, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1608682692
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$10.99 Add to cartFirst appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authorita
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 151313356X
- Language: English
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Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
$16.98 Add to cartThe ballad “John Henry” is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry–the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill–is a towering figure in our c… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0195341198
- Language: English
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartBy the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.
Set in the suburbs- Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 1998
- ISBN10: 684847957
- Language: English
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El Hombre En Busca Del Sentido
$14.99 Add to cartEl Doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de multiples padecimientos: Por que no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientacion par
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: December 11 2017
- ISBN10: 168411425X
- Language: Spanish
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Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny
$27.00 Add to cartThis fascinating and richly detailed new biography of Hitler reinterprets the known facts about the Nazi Fuehrer to construct a convincing, realistic portrait of the man. In place of the hollow shell … [more below]
- Series: German Studies
- Author: Stolfi, R. H. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 1616144742
- Language: English
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Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy
$39.99 Add to cartDuring his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to “redeem America’s promise” of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. From 18
- Author: Boutwell, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324074264
- Language: English
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Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots
$29.95 Add to cartAn expert historian on Mary, Queen of Scots draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures.
For almost two decades before her executio- Author: Scott, Jade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368019
- Language: English
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Hooligans, Rebels, and Rabble-Rousers
$32.95 Add to cartSome faced bullies, some bullets. Some were orphaned, abandoned, or even jailed. Others endured the pain of slavery or battled serious illnesses and accidents. Hooligans, Rebels, and Rabble-Rousers te
- Author: Kerman, Paula
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891324312
- Language: English
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The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eug?nie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe–Elisabeth, empress of Austria, … [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0316419427
- Language: English
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The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
$23.00 Add to cartThe incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants–with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman–who profoundly influenced the rise of moder… [more below]
- Author: Schulman, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1101973013
- Language: English
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El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
$29.95 Add to cartExploring the creation of the El Cid legend over the centuries, this masterful and evocative biography peels away the layers of myth to reveal the real-life historical figure.
El Cid was perhaps the m- Author: Berend, Nora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639366466
- Language: English
