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The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
$32.00 Read moreThis new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau.
Angus Konstam, one of the world’s leading pirate expert- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1472857739
- Language: English
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America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
$18.99 Read moreWhy do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orb?n’s illib… [more below]
- Author: Heilbrunn, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095679
- Language: English
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Guinness World Records 2025: Con R?cords de Am?rica Latina (Edici?n Latinoamericana) / Gwr 2025: Featuring Latin American Records (Latin American Edit
$39.95 Read moreCelebra el 70 aniversario de Guinness World Records con una nueva edici?n especial cargada de r?cords para la historia!
Descubre los nuevos récords más espectaculares sobre el espacio, el
- Author: Guinness World Records
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 8408290339
- Language: Spanish
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Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women’s Bank That Empowered a Generation
$16.99 Add to cartThe galvanizing true story of a group of remarkable women in the 1970s male-run world of business, banking, and finance. They didn’t play by the rules. They changed them and made history.
In the 1970s,
- Author: Williams, Grace L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1542025516
- Language: English
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Band of Sisters: Madeleine Pauliac, the Women of the Blue Squadron, and Their Daring Rescue Missions in the Last Days of World War II
$27.95 Read moreBand of Sisters tells the dramatic story of Madeleine Pauliac, a French army doctor, and a group of Red Cross nurses and ambulance drivers–known as the Blue Squadron. At the request of Charles DeGual
- Author: Maynial, Philippe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1538198797
- Language: English
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece
In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. T- Author: Kotsonis, Yanni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 069121526X
- Language: English
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A Short History of Relations Between Peoples: How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism
$24.99 Add to cartA Short History of Relations Between Peoples traces how the cultural attitudes that different peoples and nations had toward each other have undergone a profound and positive change during the last 50… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774053
- Language: English
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Hawthorne’s Prophets: The Bible and the Creation of American Literature
$26.00 Read more- Author: Ellwood, Fay Elanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469505
- Language: English
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The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner
$36.00 Add to cart- Author: Waller, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593184424
- Language: English
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Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
$29.95 Add to cartJoe Mulhall uncovers how music has shaped resistance movements across the globe, from Irish protest songs to Apartheid South Africa to the artists in Ukraine today.
While the global history of the dic- Author: Mulhall, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1804441163
- Language: English
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The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
$24.00 Read moreThe unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics “The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths th- Author: Nichter, Luke a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280130
- Language: English
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Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter’s Survival in Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
$29.99 Add to cartOne of the oldest living Holocaust survivors recounts her family’s imprisonment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen in this moving memoir of love, loss, courage, and hope.
“A deeply moving memoir, beautifu- Author: Salt, Renee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake–the most consequential natural di
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist- Author: Molesky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 030738750X
- Language: English
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, r
- Author: Adlington, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063375133
- Language: English
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Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
$32.00 Add to cartThe never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World … [more below]
- Author: Eicher, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639366423
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine Volume 7: Air War, January-December 2023
$29.95 Read moreContinues the detailed military history of this ongoing conflict, the largest in Europe since the end of the Second World War in 1945.
Volume 7 of War in Ukraine provides a detailed account of the air … [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Cooper, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1804515795
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
$24.99 Add to cartWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the Fren
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086424
- Language: English
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Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust
$26.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, r
- Author: Adlington, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063375168
- Language: English
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Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
$30.00 Add to cartTwo women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it–a memoir built on fabri… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593358929
- Language: English
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The Joyce of Everyday Life
$29.95 Add to cartPart of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it wa… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Irish Writers
- Author: Mahaffey, Vicki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: September 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1684485266
- Language: English
