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Out from the Shadows: Growing up with Holocaust Survivor Parents
$18.95 Add to cartMake the happiest amigurumi gnomes!
Gnomes make a perfect project all year round, from the happy holiday season and the splendor of spring to the bright summer days and the coziness of fall. Amigurum- Author: Mufficorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9491643517
- Language: English
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The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
$27.95 Add to cartA poverty expert reveals how truly random the world is–including how economic inequality is experienced–and how we can learn to acknowledge chance and appreciate it.
It’s comforting to think that- Author: Rank, Mark Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0520390962
- Language: English
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
$37.95 Add to cartA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of languag- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0674296087
- Language: English
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Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing series–with more than 12 million copies sold–comes a soaring account of England’s desperate fight to fend off Ge… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0593473213
- Language: English
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Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation
$34.00 Add to cartThe pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times b… [more below]
- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0316508659
- Language: English
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction
$25.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Asw… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0525509488
- Language: English
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The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
$29.99 Add to cartThe racers–an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several rival journalists–battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gob
- Author: St Clair, Kassia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094915
- Language: English
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Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World
$29.95 Add to cartThe globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.
For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from jo- Author: Lonsdale, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1526168693
- Language: English
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Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, a
$17.99 Add to cartThis evocation of the figures and events of one of the most extraordinary eras of this century makes the most vivid portrait of the period yet written . . . The culture is plentiful and the gossip is … [more below]
- Author: Friedrich, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 13 1995
- ISBN10: 0060926791
- Language: English
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Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West
$28.95 Add to cartRussia’s World Order explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Robinson, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780018
- Language: English
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
$35.00 Add to cartA moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule
“My name has become a horror to all those who- Author: Gaffield, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0300255470
- Language: English
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Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
$21.99 Add to cart“The best modern account” (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during- Author: Chrastil, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606353
- Language: English
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Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy
$36.95 Add to cartOn October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy… [more below]
- Author: Henry, Chas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126457
- Language: English
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
$21.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390478
- Language: English
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949
$24.00 Add to cart“A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill.”–Sunday Telegraph
From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem In this bri- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437921
- Language: English
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
$19.99 Add to cartBooks about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us abou… [more below]
- Author: Geroulanos, Stefanos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096128
- Language: English
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The White Sniper: Simo H?yh?
$19.95 Read more“Anyone who wants to learn more about sniping needs this book in their library.” — Infantry Magazine
Simo H?yh? (1905 – 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought betwe… [more below]
- Author: Saarelainen, Tapio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1612008550
- Language: English
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Golden State: The Making of California
$32.50 Add to cart“Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation.”–Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution
From Pulitzer Prize winner Mic
- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 035853934X
- Language: English
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Leviathan
$15.99 Add to cart‘He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in?himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind.’
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan?is not just one of the greatest philosophical?texts in the Englis- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hobbes, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0192868748
- Language: English
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
$29.99 Add to cartThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881105
- Language: English
