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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
$17.99 Add to cartToday, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe — the center of
- Author: Gordon, John Steele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060524464
- Language: English
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The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
$31.99 Add to cartThe nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creat
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051175
- Language: English
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
$19.00 Add to cartA power-hungry baroness with two lovers disrupts life on an Eden-like island in the Gal?pagos, and an isolated community descends into madness and murder–a true story of utopia gone wrong from New Yo… [more below]
- Author: Kahler, Abbott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0451498666
- Language: English
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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
$35.00 Add to cartA major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II–tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia
In the We- Author: Hellbeck, Jochen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593657381
- Language: English
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Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
$19.95 Add to cartConjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Viol… [more below]
- Author: Stillman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0299193942
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$24.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and sti- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 069125558X
- Language: English
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What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Essential Questions Answered
$20.00 Add to cart“An Austen lover’s greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing.” –The Atlantic
Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, W- Author: Mullan, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1526693941
- Language: English
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
$20.00 Add to cart“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”–The Washington Post
A thrillin- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593728114
- Language: English
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-1945
$31.00 Add to cartFrom the author of To Hell and Back, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II
Countless books have been written abo- Author: Kershaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122134
- Language: English
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Traitors Among Us
$25.00 Add to cartAs director of the elite Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, author Stuart Herrington was the U.S. Army’s top counterintelligence officer. In this thrilling and informative account he details one of… [more below]
- Author: Herrington, Stuart a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 19 2000
- ISBN10: 0156011174
- Language: English
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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
$35.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a bold, clear-eyed look at how the autocracies of China and Russia are challenging the current global o
- Author: McFaul, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0358677874
- Language: English
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
$20.00 Add to cartLogavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tole… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0812982762
- Language: English
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El Diario de Anne Frank (Novela Gr?fica) / Anne Frank’s Dairy: The Graphic Adaptation
$26.95 Add to cart“12 de junio de 1942. Espero poder confi?rtelo todo como a?n no lo he podido hacer con nadie, y espero que seas para m? un gran apoyo”.
Tras la invasi?n de Holanda, la familia Frank se ocult? de la Ge… [more below]- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525564500
- Language: Spanish
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A Short History of the Gaza Strip
$29.99 Add to cartSince October 2023, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military onslaughts in modern history on the Gaza Strip, in response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7. But Gaza had long been in
- Author: Irfan, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 132410595X
- Language: English
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The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities
$21.99 Add to cartThe Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the ancient African language of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), these explorations
- Author: Yaqob, Zara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 3112214110
- Language: English
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany–And the Spy Who Betrayed Them
$32.00 Add to cart“An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.”–Mi
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063373203
- Language: English
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Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025
$28.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed economist’s observations on four years of events that have shaped the world
In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde, renowned economist Thomas Piketty- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282753
- Language: English
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Jorge Luis Borges: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, phil… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0197761380
- Language: English
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Little Beasts: Art, Wonder, and the Natural World
$50.00 Read moreA richly illustrated look at the intersection of art and science in Renaissance Europe
Art played a pivotal role in the development of natural history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. E- Author: Libby, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271305
- Language: English
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
$37.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This gr… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217157686
- Language: English
