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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$22.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691235309
- Language: English
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Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
- Author: Scheidt, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1978846746
- Language: English
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Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels–from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.
When Ludwig van Beethoven lay- Author: Martin, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 076790351X
- Language: English
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
$31.99 Read moreIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about te
- Author: Tabor, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036028
- Language: English
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Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump’s New America
$32.95 Add to cartWith radical candor and sardonic wit, Randolph Lewis offers an autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of hope and redemption among the detritus strewn about by neo-Gilded Age billionaires, B
- Author: Lewis, Randolph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496244850
- Language: English
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Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
$22.00 Read moreINCLUDES SENSATIONAL NEW MATERIAL
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER
A Book of the Year for The Times, Financial Times and Waterstones
‘This isn’t a book; it’s a case for revolution’ CAMILLA LONG, SUN
- Author: Lownie, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0008775494
- Language: English
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Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin’s Bomb
$30.00 Read more- Author: Valentine, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 006330547X
- Language: English
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American MIG Pilot: Inside the Top Secret USAF “Red Eagles” MIG Squadron
$30.00 Add to cartAfter being outflown over Vietnam, the US launched a top secret operation to acquire Soviet aircraft, train pilots to fly them, and pitch them against American planes in training scenarios.
Get inside- Author: Zettel, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 147280855X
- Language: English
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Postwar Europe: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in history. It left Europe in ruins, its economies severely damaged and millions of its peo- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bessel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0198851669
- Language: English
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Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
$35.00 Read moreThe riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over E… [more below]
- Author: Senior, Antonia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 154170438X
- Language: English
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The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy
$30.00 Read moreAn urgent and shocking examination of how the ultra-rich dominate democracies, hoard political power, and maintain inequality–and how we might chart another path.
The wealthy and powerful few have do- Author: Winters, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1668221535
- Language: English
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Little Edna’s War: A True Story of Resistance and Hope. A Gripping WWII page-turner
$19.95 Add to cartThey tried to erase her. Instead, she became a legend.
At just seven years old, Edna Szurek risked everything to smuggle food through holes in the Warsaw Ghetto wall, knowing each step could be her las
- Series: Holocaust True Survivor Stories
- Author: Bond Brill, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9493418634
- Language: English
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The History of Pizza
$29.95 Add to cartPizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and
- Author: Cesari, Luca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1509566643
- Language: English
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A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare
$30.00 Read moreA world-renowned critic’s haunting and deeply researched account of the subversive acts of literary revenge performed during the Red Scare hearings of the 1950s
In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, the House
- Author: Garber, Marjorie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300282826
- Language: English
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The Holocaust in American Life
$25.99 Add to cartPrize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long — how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not
- Author: Novick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0618082328
- Language: English
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Guardians of Life: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Science, and Restoring the Planet
$49.95 Add to cart“A visually dazzling and deeply informative collection that will linger with readers long after the last page.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Both breathtaking and intimate. . .” — Foreword Re- Author: Mann, Charles C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1680518380
- Language: English
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No One s Coming
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history.
JULY 2014. Two American medical volunt- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783177
- Language: English
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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation’s Troubled Homecoming from World War II
$21.99 Add to cartOne of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called “Good War.” The Greatest Generation, we’re told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then return… [more below]
- Author: Childers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0547336926
- Language: English
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Nuclear Weapons: An International History
$38.00 Read moreA groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War
How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally c- Author: Holloway, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300229445
- Language: English
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Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City
$30.00 Read moreA sweeping cultural history of the dancing that defined New York City
Throughout the twentieth century, in theaters, ballrooms, and nightclubs, dancers blazed trails of resistance and revolution. From
- Author: McDougall, Rennie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1419771124
- Language: English
