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His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine
$18.99 Add to cartFrom historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall o… [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1982168307
- Language: English
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in
- Author: Kim, Sj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064765
- Language: English
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Kent State: An American Tragedy
$35.00 Add to cartOn May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taun
- Author: Vandemark, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066253
- Language: English
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Vigdis: A Book about the World’s First Female President
$19.95 Add to cart★ “In this winningly informal introduction, a budding young writer sits with Vigd?s to enjoy her famous Bessasta?ir cookies and chat about her early years…” – Booklist (STARRED review)
A 2025
- Author: Flygenring, Rán
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3039640410
- Language: English
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The CIA: An Imperial History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “superb” (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire
As World War II end- Author: Wilford, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 154164591X
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$27.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006978
- Language: English
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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
$18.00 Add to cartDrawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies
Winner of the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize – A Fi- Author: Garton Ash, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276729
- Language: English
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Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
$18.00 Add to cart#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fa… [more below]
- Author: Monbiot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0593735153
- Language: English
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At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China
$32.00 Add to cartWinner of the Baifang Schell Book Prize – 2025 Orwell Prize Finalist
One of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of 2024 “A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along.” —The Wal- Author: Wong, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1984877402
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$32.00 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0691235287
- Language: English
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Burma ’44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East
In Februar
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160581
- Language: English
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Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
$26.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between t
- Author: Beers, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075082
- Language: English
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
$27.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them
A- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0385549938
- Language: English
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Charles & Ray: Designers at Play: A Story of Charles and Ray Eames
$18.99 Add to cartA playful introduction to the designs of Charles and Ray Eames by Geisel-winning creator James Yang.
Charles was an architect. Ray was a painter. Together they made the perfect team. By using structur- Author: Yang, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0593404823
- Language: English
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
$30.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by The New Yorker, NPR and BookPage.
“Michael Waters performs- Author: Waters, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0374609810
- Language: English
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir
$19.99 Read moreA heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles.
S?amas O’Reilly’s mother died when he was fiv
- Author: O’Reilly, Séamas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316424269
- Language: English
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Evitchka: A True Story of Survival, Hope and Love
$25.95 Add to cartBefore World War II, there were two hundred Jewish children in the small town of Humenn?, Czechoslovakia. After the war, there were six. Evitchka was one of them. Her survival is a testament to the lu
- Author: Levitt, Lawrence P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1952352231
- Language: English
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Unveiled Memories: Twins Reunited After the Holocaust
$18.00 Add to cartFor many years I lived my life with a hole in my soul that could not
be filled. Something was missing. In 1995 my beating heart found
the echo heartbeat of my twin brother Adam. Each of our questionin- Author: Paluch-Kersz, Ida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0578592274
- Language: English
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One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 Wto Protests
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests, featuring over 100 original interviews and timed to the event’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
One week in late 1999, more than 5- Author: Gibson, Dw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1668033569
- Language: English
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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
$17.95 Add to cartDuring World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredib
- Author: Mayer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 28 2011
- ISBN10: 098411131X
- Language: English
