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Dream Boogie
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Last Train to Memphis, this is the definitive biography of Sam Cooke, one of most influential singers and songwriters of all time.
Sam Cooke was among the first to blend- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0316013293
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
$24.99 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent.
In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Ami- Author: Drake, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0316001856
- Language: English
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The Mauritanian (Originally Published as Guantánamo Diary)
$18.99 Add to cartThis “profound and disturbing” (New York Times Book Review) bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner is now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster.
When The Mauritanian was fir- Author: Slahi, Mohamedou Ould
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0316282545
- Language: English
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This Is My God
$19.99 Add to cart“Valuable, wise, and quietly moving” (Chicago Tribune), This Is My God is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk’s famous introduction to Judaism.
A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides reade- Author: Wouk, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0316955140
- Language: English
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One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
$22.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity’s greatest tragedy: concentration camps.
For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. Firs- Author: Pitzer, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0316303569
- Language: English
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A Drinking Life: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartThis bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is “a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction” (New York Times).
As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pe… [more below]- Author: Hamill, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0316341029
- Language: English
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Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times
$21.99 Add to cartThe infamous Vlad Dracula, 15th-century Prince of Romania, was the basis for Bram Stoker’s fictional character. This biography covers the ‘Impaler’s’ life and subsequent legend and examines how closel… [more below]
- Author: McNally, Raymond T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: October 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0316286567
- Language: English
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Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World
$24.99 Add to cartEvan Thomas’s startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust.
Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his c- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0316091030
- Language: English
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Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the earliest days of his thirty-four-year military career, Victor “Brute” Krulak displayed a remarkable facility for applying creative ways of fighting to the Marine Corps. He went on daring spy … [more below]
- Author: Coram, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0316067431
- Language: English
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A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
$25.99 Add to cartOne of the great untold stories of World War II finally comes to light in this thrilling account of Torpedo Squadron Eight and their heroic efforts in helping an outmatched U.S. fleet win critical vic… [more below]
- Author: Mrazek, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0316056537
- Language: English
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West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life
$21.99 Add to cartThe honest and powerful autobiography from basketball legend Jerry West is a must-read for fans of the game.
He is one of basketball’s towering figures: “Mr. Clutch,” who mesmerized his opponents an- Author: Coleman, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0316053503
- Language: English
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
$22.99 Add to cartWhat happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did, and in doing so put at risk everything we know ab… [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0316016411
- Language: English
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The Undiscovered Self
$19.99 Add to cartDr. Jung discusses the problem of the individual in today’s highly programmed society.
- Author: Jung, C. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: March 30 1972
- ISBN10: 0316476943
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of Speech
$18.99 Add to cartThe maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
“A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theo- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0316404632
- Language: English
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The Death of a President: November 20 – November 25, 1963
$24.99 Add to cartWilliam Manchester’s epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester s- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0316370711
- Language: English
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The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
$22.99 Add to cartThe intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend.
In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and p- Author: Santana, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0316244902
- Language: English
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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartBrilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death.
Drawing upo- Author: Gabriel, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0316066125
- Language: English
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Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the definitive biography of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees icon, winner of 10 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history.
Lawrence “Yogi” Berra was never sup- Author: Pessah, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0316310972
- Language: English
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Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
$21.99 Add to cartFrom a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanita… [more below]
- Author: Dagher, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316556734
- Language: English
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The Evolution of God
$18.99 Add to cartIn this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have fo… [more below]
- Series: Back Bay Readers’ Pick
- Author: Wright, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 03 2010
- ISBN10: 031606744X
- Language: English
