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When the Game Was Ours
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller from Hall of Fame basketball legends Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson.
From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce ph- Author: Bird, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0547394586
- Language: English
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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The NBA according to The Sports Guy–now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more
Foreword by Malcom Gladwell – “The work of a true fan . . . it might jus… [more below]- Author: Simmons, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0345520106
- Language: English
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That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
$16.99 Add to cartThe story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi’s first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse.
The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughi… [more below]
- Author: Eisenberg, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 547395698
- Language: English
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Obama’s Wars
$18.99 Add to cartIn Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hund
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 03, 2011
- ISBN10: 1439172501
- Language: English
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea–a closed world of increasing global importance–hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Revi… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0385523912
- Language: English
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Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior
$20.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented view of Green Beret training, drawn from the year Dick Couch spent at Special Forces training facilities with the Army’s most elite soldiers.
In combating terror, America can no longe- Author: Couch, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0307339394
- Language: English
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
$20.00 Add to cartAlready a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden’s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since th
- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13, 2010
- ISBN10: 080214473X
- Language: English
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Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation’s Most Elusive Serial Killer
$10.99 Add to cartRobert Graysmith’s New York Times bestselling account of the desperate hunt for a serial killer and his own investigation of California’s unsolved Zodiac murders.
A sexual sadist, the Zodiac killer t- Author: Graysmith, Robert
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0425212181
- Language: English
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My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
$16.95 Add to cartLooking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one … [more below]
- Series: Illinois
- Author: Sanchez, Reymundo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1556524277
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
$21.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago and the cunni… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0375725601
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
$20.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow o
- Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0385722702
- Language: English
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The First World War
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The definitive account of the Great War from one of our most eminent military historians. “Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient…. Keegan is…perhaps the best mil… [more below]
- Author: Keegan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 16 2000
- ISBN10: 0375700455
- Language: English
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To Life: A Cartoonist’s Journal in the Aftermath of October 7th
$39.99 Add to cartFrom the creator of The Rabbi’s Cat comes a deeply personal reflection on October 7 and its fallout.
Half journal and half journalism, To Life is an honest, thought-provoking, and intimate look at the- Author: Sfar, Joann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1250393213
- Language: English
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Motherhood Discounted: Care Work in America Before and After Roe
$17.99 Add to cartFor readers trying to make sense of America’s political turmoil and eroding reproductive rights, an incisive examination, enhanced with personal stories, of how care work has been extracted and compel
- Author: McConnell, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 9798896363149
- Language: English
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The Frozen Water Trade
$9.99 Add to cartThe story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England – valued for its incredible purity – revolutionised domestic life around the world.
In the days before artificial re
- Author: Weightman, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0007102860
- Language: English
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Kennedy: The Classic Biography
$24.99 Add to cart“A brilliant and essential document about the man, the President, and his times. In all the millions of words which have been written about the martyred President, this book must remain unique. . . .
- Series: Harper Perennial Political Classics
- Author: Sorensen, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 20 2009
- ISBN10: 006196784X
- Language: English
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Under the Eagle: Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
$21.95 Add to cartSamuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on exten… [more below]
- Author: Holiday, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0806143894
- Language: English
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
$19.99 Add to cartIn the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad f
- Author: Edwards, Justene Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123486
- Language: English
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Kings of the Garden: The New York Knicks and Their City
$31.95 Add to cartIn Kings of the Garden, Adam J. Criblez traces the fall and rise of the New York Knicks between the 1973, the year they won their last NBA championship, and 1985, when the organization drafted Patrick
- Author: Criblez, Adam J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501773933
- Language: English
