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  • English translation of the military manual that guided the German Army in World War II
  • This book was carried into battle by officers and NCOs and had been classified by the U.S. Army until the year 20
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    • Author: Condell, Bruce
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: December 17 2008
    • ISBN10: 0811735524
    • Language: English
  • The Black History of the White House

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    The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved pe

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    • Series: City Lights Open Media
    • Author: Lusane, Clarence
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: January 01 2011
    • ISBN10: 0872865320
    • Language: English
  • Venezuela in Crisis: Socialist Perspectives

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    In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country’s crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.

    Venezuela in Crisi

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    • Author: Bean, Anderson M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 332
    • Publish Date: February 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798888904640
    • Language: English
  • Flush It Down: The Story of Sewers Through Time

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    Hold your nose and dive into the smelly but surprisingly fascinating world of sewers!

    From the mighty Cloaca Maxima of Ancient Rome to the revolting, waste-filled streets of the Middle Ages, and on t

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    • Author: Flowers, Rob
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: May 05 2026
    • ISBN10: 1800660642
    • Language: English
  • The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America’s Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces

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    A grassroots tour of the nation’s lesbian bars that illuminates their past, present, and hopeful future, from the co-creator of the hit podcast Cruising

    Lesbian bars are so much more than a place to g

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    • Author: Karp, Rachel
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: May 26 2026
    • ISBN10: 0807023442
    • Language: English
  • Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean per[more below]

    • Author: Targoff, Ramie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: February 17 2026
    • ISBN10: 1984899511
    • Language: English
  • Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

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    A strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe

    The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more th

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    • Author: McPhee, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 488
    • Publish Date: August 08 2017
    • ISBN10: 0300228694
    • Language: English
  • Nazis of Long Island: Sedition, Espionage & the Plot Against America

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    In Yaphank, New York, hid the greatest threat to the United States war effort during World War II: the American Nazi.

    Building on racial and ethnic biases, lack of trust in government and a dose of co

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    • Series: True Crime
    • Author: Verga, Christopher C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 23 2025
    • ISBN10: 1467156493
    • Language: English
  • Banton of Paramount: Haute Couture in Hollywood’s Golden Age

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    An introduction to the career of Travis Banton, one of the preeminent costume/fashion designers of Hollywood’s Celebrated “Golden Age.” Working at Paramount Pictures from 1925 through 1938, Banton was… [more below]

    • Author: Gutner, Howard
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: May 19 2026
    • ISBN10: 1493085026
    • Language: English
  • Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls

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    Unearthing the unfamiliar world behind the Bible

    • Reencounter the Bible and its ancient and unfamiliar world
    • Discern fact from fable about the Dead Sea Scrolls
    • Discover how the Scrolls continue to myst

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    • Author: Perrin, Andrew B.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 23 2025
    • ISBN10: 1683597958
    • Language: English
  • Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, from Settlement to Uprising

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    The dangers of “progressive policing” as told through a study of Portland, Oregon.

    Policing the Progressive City tells the story of how Portland’s “law and order” has been shaped for over two hundred y

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    • Author: Williams, Kristian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 1849354286
    • Language: English
  • We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story

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    During Adolf Hitler’s rule over Germany, there were over 40,000 Nazi concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti, and Roma, as well as “o

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    • Author: Baker, Frank W.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: January 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798986618814
    • Language: English
  • Shoes!: A Footwear Fashion Frolic

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    Lace up your boots and take a journey through the rich history of footwear.

    Shoes tell stories about their wearers–their identity, wealth, origins, and the image they wish to project. Over the years

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    • Author: Davies, Anna
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: May 05 2026
    • ISBN10: 180066057X
    • Language: English
  • Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat – A New Scientist Non-Fiction Book of the Year

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    A NEW SCIENTIST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

    A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing.

    Rats are crea

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    • Author: Shute, Joe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 139940251X
    • Language: English
  • Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology

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    Quantum computers, quantum cryptography, and even quantum AI–a century after the discovery of an unexpected physical world, researchers are putting this puzzling science to work in dazzling new ways.[more below]

    • Author: Davies, Paul
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 10 2026
    • ISBN10: 0226849325
    • Language: English
  • Malcolm X and the Arts: Ten Centennial Reflections

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    Malcolm X and the Arts: Ten Centennial Reflections is a landmark collection of essays that examines the influence of Malcolm X on artistic movements and creative works.

    This volume brings together sch

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    • Author: Gilyard, Keith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 0883784432
    • Language: English
  • Renewing the Promise: A New Vision for Eritrea

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    The book I am presenting to readers, titled “Renewing the Promise: A New Vision for Eritrea,” serves as a continuation of my first book, “Eritrea’s Hard-won Independence and Unmet Expectations.” It de

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    • Author: Solomon, Semere -.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: January 27 2026
    • ISBN10: 9798218914868
    • Language: English
  • Siege of Kazan 1552: Ivan the Terrible Breaks the Kazan Khanate

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    Russian expert Mark Galeotti provides an in-depth look at the siege that pitted Ivan the Terrible and Russia’s first standing army against the Khanate of Kazan, leading to Muscovy’s rise.

    The Khanate

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    • Series: Campaign #426
    • Author: Galeotti, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 1472868439
    • Language: English
  • The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South

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    A timely call for Texas-and the South–to reclaim its radical history, drawing lessons for today’s struggle from the populists and socialists of yesteryear.

    In blood-red states such as Texas, politics

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    • Author: Griscom, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 238
    • Publish Date: April 14 2026
    • ISBN10: 1682196453
    • Language: English
  • Bad Friday

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    On March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake lasting more than five minutes rocked south central Alaska, leveling waterfronts, collapsing bridges, and crumbling landscapes. The most powerful quake in

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    • Author: Freedman, Lew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 17
    • Publish Date: January 14 2014
    • ISBN10: 1935347241
    • Language: English
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