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Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex
$35.00 Add to cartWe take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel
- Author: Cleves, Rachel Hope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509553630
- Language: English
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
$19.99 Add to cartThe “remarkable…inspiring” (The Wall Street Journal) true story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg–a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Pol… [more below]
- Author: White, Elizabeth B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1982189134
- Language: English
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I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column
$24.95 Add to cartA fascinating collection of questions and answers–about courtship, marriage, love, and sex–from a seventeenth-century periodical
The Athenian Mercury–a one-page, two-sided periodical published in- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0691253994
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Primera Guerra Mundial (the World War I Book)
$29.99 Add to cartDescubre las batallas, las t?cticas militares y los momentos m?s decisivos de la Primera Guerra Mundial,
Desde las crecientes tensiones entre las principales potencias europeas y el asesinato del arc- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 593847946
- Language: Spanish
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
$28.00 Add to cart“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”–Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer
“… [more below]- Author: Stanley, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0525511830
- Language: English
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Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe
$16.99 Add to cartIn this lively and ambitious book, James Sheehan charts what is perhaps the most radical shift in Europe’s history: its transformation from war-torn battlefield to peaceful, prosperous society. For ce… [more below]
- Author: Sheehan, James J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0547086334
- Language: English
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Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny
$17.00 Add to cartIn 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol … [more below]
- Author: Dash, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0609807161
- Language: English
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Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II
$35.00 Add to cartA powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers
In popular memory, the Second World War was a- Author: Chamberlin, Paul Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619269
- Language: English
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Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
$28.00 Add to cartThe first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian
Robert Wedderburn (1762-1834/5) was one of the most- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Hanley, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272359
- Language: English
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Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
$32.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long-lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship pac- Author: Cockerell, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0374609268
- 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
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798892421546
- Language: English
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The Pacific War, 1931-1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan’s Role in World War II
$21.00 Add to cart- Series: Pantheon Asia Library
- Author: Ienaga, Saburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 1979
- ISBN10: 0394734963
- Language: English
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A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under Us Occupation
$29.95 Add to cartA poignant return to Korea’s forgotten “Asian Spring”–a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation.
When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsu- Author: Chang, Kornel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0674258436
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
$21.99 Add to cartAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East Germany (New Republic)
In 1990, a country disappeared- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606361
- Language: English
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62: Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness
$18.99 Add to cart“The definitive story” (Tyler Kepner, The New York Times baseball columnist) of Yankees slugger Aaron Judge’s incredible, unparalleled run to break Roger Maris’s home run record and the franchise both… [more below]
- Author: Hoch, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668027968
- Language: English
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Becoming Walla Walla: The Transformation of Cayuse Country, 1805-1879
$27.95 Add to cartThe first Euro-Americans to trek through the verdant Walla Walla Valley were uniformly impressed with its prospects for colonization. The Cayuse remained the valley’s primary inhabitants until diverse
- Author: Crockett, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0874224330
- Language: English
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Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition (Loa #389)
$45.00 Read moreA deluxe expanded edition of the masterpiece of political philosophy that transformed how the world thinks about fascism and authoritarianism
Includes two fascinating chapters that were later cut and- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538063
- Language: English
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
$22.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from a “public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Bau: Artist at War
$18.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCH, IN THEATERS JANUARY 2025
A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a
- Author: Bau, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798228017566
- Language: English
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The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian comes a fresh analysis of the rise of Nazi extremism, how such thinking gained popularity, and why it is vital to fight burgeoning extremist movements today
How could- Author: Rees, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541702336
- Language: English
