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The Pessimist’s Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope
$20.00 Add to cartA personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl in… [more below]
- Author: Kimel, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887198019
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The New Translation
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century
A Penguin Classic Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twent- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0241484170
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
$29.99 Add to cartBest-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulou
- Author: Pears, Iain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324073772
- Language: English
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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbr?ck
$29.00 Add to cartA profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbr?ck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were insepara- Author: Strauss, Gwen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1250285747
- Language: English
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Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home
$45.00 Add to cartIntimate stories that offer entertaining perspectives on what it was like to engage with radio when it was new.
Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensatio
- Author: Rubens, Beaty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246312
- Language: English
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The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
$26.95 Add to cartWhether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture.
A- Author: MacKay, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1786637731
- Language: English
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Wagner and the Creation of the Ring
$29.95 Add to cartPart cultural history, part biography, this is the fascinating story of Richard Wagner’s life, influences, gift for storytelling, and artistic revolution, culminating in his dramatic journey to write … [more below]
- Author: Downes, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369155
- Language: English
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Backcountry War: The Rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas Sumter
$34.95 Add to cartOver the past several decades, the history of the American Revolution in the South has undergone a transformation to better incorporate regional events into the greater narrative of the war. Among the… [more below]
- Author: Waters, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1594164312
- Language: English
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Normal Women: Making History for 900 Years
$15.99 Add to cartThe bestselling, critically acclaimed new women’s history book from Philippa Gregory for 2025 – adapted for teen and YA readers!
Today, when we think of women of the past, we often think of the 1800s
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0008725071
- Language: English
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Patriot: A Memoir
$37.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, THE ATLANTIC, NPR – The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition l… [more below]
- Author: Navalny, Alexei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217172375
- Language: English
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Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
$17.95 Add to cartA masterful study of the elusive French composer, on the centenary of his death.
Composer, pianist, and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle ?poque Paris. Known for his unvarying im- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Penman, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902533
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
$26.95 Add to cartA pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged a- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299884
- Language: English
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Lawrence in Arabia, a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidit… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0385548079
- Language: English
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What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea
$29.95 Add to cart“A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra.” —The Guardian
A leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, w- Author: Dabhoiwala, Fara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674987314
- Language: English
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Writing on Raving
$19.95 Read moreWriting on Raving is the definitive mix of voices from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, providing fresh language for the shared and infinitely varied experience of dancing through the n
- Author: Wark, McKenzie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1682196283
- Language: English
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Unremitting: The Marine “Bastard” Battalion and the Savage Battle That Marked the True Start of America’s War in Iraq
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the former USA Today journalist and author of The Chosen Few, the untold story of The Battle of Ramadi, which led to a war that would last seven years, claim thousands of lives and evolve into a … [more below]
- Author: Zoroya, Gregg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0306833026
- Language: English
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Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia
$32.00 Add to cartThe rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity
Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the autom- Author: Berenson, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300259549
- Language: English
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Sobrevivir a Mauthausen-Gusen: Memorias de Un Espa?ol En Los Campos Nazis / Surviving Mauthausen-Gusen. Memoirs of a Spaniard in the Nazi Concentratio
$23.95 Read moreUn testimonio ?nico y de gran valor, fiel al juramento de Mauthausen
D?cadas despu?s de la guerra y fiel al juramento pronunciado por los espa?oles supervivientes de Mauthausen el d?a de la liberaci?n- Author: Calcerrada, Enrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 8466671846
- Language: Spanish
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Into the Void: Adventures of the Spacewalkers
$39.95 Add to cartThe world had been fascinated with astronauts and spaceflight since well before the first crewed launches in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, and John Glenn became household names. But when Alex… [more below]
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Youskauskas, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496224124
- Language: English
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A Dictionary of Tolkien Deluxe Edition
$19.99 Add to cartDive into the fantastical world and vocabulary of J. R. R. Tolkien with this deluxe edition that will stand out on your bookshelf.
J. R. R. Tolkien created characters and a world so unique and so rich- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1667207741
- Language: English
