History
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Wild, Beautiful, and Free
$16.99 Read moreFrom award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman’s bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn’t belong.
Born the
- Author: Scott, Sophfronia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542036062
- Language: English
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Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today
$18.99 Add to cartGod has always been interested in turning unlikely people into his most fervent followers. Prostitutes and pagans, tax collectors and tricksters. The more unlikely, the more it seemed to please God an
- Author: Laurie, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 080109500X
- Language: English
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
$22.00 Add to cart“Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is he
- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984880896
- Language: English
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
$17.00 Add to cartIn the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence.
- Author: Beah, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 05, 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531269
- Language: English
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The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects
$18.99 Add to cartLearn fascinating history and trivia you never knew about things we use on a daily basis from the host of highly popular THE STORY BEHIND podcast.
- Series: Story Behind
- Author: Prokop, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1633538281
- Language: English
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
$18.95 Add to cartThe remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map.
“Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.”
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- Author: Defoe, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457668
- Language: English
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire
From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103051
- Language: English
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The Social Contract
$11.00 Add to cart“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30, 1968
- ISBN10: 0140442014
- Language: English
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The Day After Roswell
$19.99 Add to cartA breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious
- Author: Birnes, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 150117200X
- Language: English
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty–“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)
The first Pl- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143124927
- Language: English
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S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome
$19.99 Add to cartIn SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome “with passion and without technical jargon” and demonstrates how “a slightly shabby Iron Age village” rose to become the “undispute
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1631492225
- Language: English
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
$17.95 Add to cartIn Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and
- Author: Newitz, Annalee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882454
- Language: English
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American Serial Killers: The Deadliest Years 1950-2000
$20.00 Add to cartFans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American “Golden Age” (1950-2000).
With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and S- Author: Vronsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593198956
- Language: English
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – From the author of Empire of Pain–a stunning, intricate narrative about a notoriou… [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0307279286
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$20.00 Add to cartErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd beco… [more below]- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 030740885X
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
$24.00 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Wonderful… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D’Urbervi
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250048532
- Language: English
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
$18.99 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
This New York Times bestseller
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1416591060
- Language: English
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
$20.00 Add to cartThe powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, wh- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250237092
- Language: English
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$22.99 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0316418528
- Language: English
