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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
$19.99 Add to cartRebecca Frankel’s Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the Catskills.
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
One of Smithsonian M- Author: Frankel, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250874904
- Language: English
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – This “excellent, all-embracing” (The New York Times) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a distance–and a captivating windo… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Sally Bedell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0812979796
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMahon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0198859546
- Language: English
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Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one’s daily life
With Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to “destroy, mercilessly . .- Series: Compass
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140194738
- Language: English
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The Treacherous World of the 16th Century & How the Pilgrims Escaped It: The Prequel to America’s Freedom
$25.00 Add to cartDiscover the facts you’ve been missing from the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving story
Did freedom of religion & conscience exist in 16th century Europe?
How did kings of Spain, France & England, & Turkish Sul- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0989649148
- Language: English
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Bergsonism
$27.95 Add to cartWhat is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant of contemporary philosophers, this question of “novelty” is the major problem posed by Bergson’s work
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299078
- Language: English
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
$26.95 Add to cartSlavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the field… [more below]
- Series: Essential Zizek
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673006
- Language: English
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Winning Numbers: A Deep Dive Into the Lottery and Luck
$12.99 Add to cartWhat would you do if you won the lottery?
In 1998, James Hayes won $19 million. Why did he end up in prison twenty years later? A winner in Massachusetts receives $1 million a year for life. Why does h
- Author: Copetas, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989217205
- Language: English
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live–and to create–with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish… [more below]
- Author: Watling, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593319664
- Language: English
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
$18.95 Add to cartWhy? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift an
- Author: Hayes, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 393355462
- Language: English
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La Bailarina de Auschwitz / The Choice: Embrace the Possible
$14.95 Read moreUna emocionante historia de superaci?n sobre la capacidad del ser humano para sanar y vencer la adversidad.
Eger ten?a diecis?is a?os cuando los nazis invadieron su pueblo de Hungr?a y se la llevaron
- Author: Eger, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 6070797671
- Language: Spanish
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
$18.00 Read more“Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work.”– from the Foreword by Fran?ise Verg?.
What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonial
- Author: Abbas, Nuzhat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 177525674X
- Language: English
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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
$39.95 Add to cartAn Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year
“Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.”
–Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-ex- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244869
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina
$24.95 Add to cartAt its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties – to her marriage and to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800533
- Language: English
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El Hombre En Busca Del Sentido
$14.99 Add to cartEl Doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de multiples padecimientos: Por que no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientacion par
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: December 11 2017
- ISBN10: 168411425X
- Language: Spanish
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
$30.00 Add to cartA revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary
“Trenchant. . . . An essential look at the diarist’s legacy.”–Publishers Weekly In this innovat- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Franklin, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 300248121
- Language: English
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Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
$24.00 Add to cartWinner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/Biography
Shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bon- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 307390381
- Language: English
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The 1980s: Image of a Decade
$60.00 Add to cartThe 1980s were a time of bold exploration, dazzling creativity, inspiring unity–and stark division. Technology, media, gender roles, race, sexuality, geopolitics, climate, and even our place in the u
- Series: Story of a Decade #1
- Author: Carroll, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 500027226
- Language: English
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Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of The Age of Reason, revealing how–although it was a time of great progress–it was also an era of brutality and intolerance with a very human cost.
During the 1600s–between the- Author: Strathern, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639367977
- Language: English
