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By: Gifford, Clive
How the World Works: Know It All, from How the Sun Shines to How the Pyramids Were Built
$16.99PaperbackRead moreThis essential title from award-winning author Clive Gifford provides children with all the information they need to know how the world works!
We are surrounded by amazing things in the natural world- Author: Gifford, Clive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0753479818
- Language: English
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By: Ritland, Mike
Navy Seal Dogs: My Tale of Training Canines for Combat
$15.00PaperbackRead moreBefore there was Max, there was Mike. A true story much like the touching movie, Navy SEAL Dogs explores the incomparable relationship between trainer and military dog.
Trident K9 Warriors gave reade- Author: Ritland, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1250049695
- Language: English
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By: Eagleton, Terry
Culture
$18.00PaperbackRead moreOne of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture a- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270615
- Language: English
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The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz
$25.00HardcoverRead moreA unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz.
On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosiv- Author: Gradowski, Zalmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 022663678X
- Language: English
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By: Mingus, Scott L.
If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg. Volume 2: June 22-30, 1863
$34.95HardcoverRead moreAward-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of “If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania” The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of t… [more below]
- Author: Mingus, Scott L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216117
- Language: English
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The Zimmermann Telegram: America Enters the War, 1917-1918; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$21.00PaperbackAdd to cart“A tremendous tale of hushed and unhushed uproars in the linked fields of war and diplomacy” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August
In January 1917, the war- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0345324250
- Language: English
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By: Lahoud, Nelly
The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family
$18.00PaperbackRead moreAn inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder–told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle
As seen on 60 Minutes “A comprehensive, meticulously constructed and eye-- Author: Lahoud, Nelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270429
- Language: English
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By: Empson, William
Seven Types of Ambiguity
$16.95PaperbackRead moreRevised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes “any verbal nuance, however slight, w… [more below]
- Author: Empson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 1966
- ISBN10: 081120037X
- Language: English
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By: Cumings, Bruce
The Korean War: A History
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartA BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 081297896X
- Language: English
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Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1975-90: The Ultimate Generation of Cold War Heavy Armor
$20.00PaperbackRead moreA comprehensive, illustrated account of the new generation of advanced tanks to emerge during the last 15 years of the Cold War, showcasing major improvements in armor protection, gunsights, and fire
- Series: New Vanguard #323
- Author: Zaloga, Steven J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853806
- Language: English
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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater
$19.95PaperbackRead moreFrom the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
“I just love those maps that you guys send to me.” It is a phrase tha- Series: Maps from the American Battlefield Trust #2
- Author: American Battlefield Trust
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1682619931
- Language: English
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By: Lenga, Harry
The Watchmakers: A Powerful Ww2 Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cart“Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” –Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the Firs… [more below]
- Author: Lenga, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0806541911
- Language: English
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By: Walsh, Stephen
The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century Music
$29.95HardcoverRead more“**A New Yorker “Best Book of the Year”**
“An excellent work of history.”–The Wall Street Journal A rich and luminous biography of nineteenth century music. When one thinks of “great” classical music- Author: Walsh, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362363
- Language: English
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By: Allman, T. D.
Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartLonglisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness- Author: Allman, T. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122302
- Language: English
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After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
$50.00HardcoverRead moreThrough the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-… [more below]
- Author: Stevens, Maryanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1857096959
- Language: English
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Legends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age
$35.00HardcoverRead moreLegends of Drag: Queens of a Certain Age is a tribute to the groundbreaking drag icons who helped pave the way for the queens of today.
Prelude and Foreword written by fashion icon Miss J Alexander an- Author: Hanson, Harry James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758470
- Language: English
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By: Wooding, Lucy
Tudor England: A History
$37.50HardcoverRead moreA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this- Author: Wooding, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0300162723
- Language: English
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By: Tharoor, Shashi
B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India’s Dispossessed
$24.95HardcoverRead moreA household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly indepen
- Series: Global Icons
- Author: Tharoor, Shashi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1526173581
- Language: English
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By: Hoffman, Shawn
Samson: A Savior Will Rise
$15.99PaperbackRead moreWinner of 7 International Book Festival Competitions for Best Novel of the Year, including New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and San Francisco.
The year is 1941, and Samson Abrams makes a life-or-death de
- Author: Hoffman, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0849964687
- Language: English
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By: Greene, Daniel
Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader
$22.95PaperbackRead moreWhat did the American people and the US government know about the threats posed by Nazi Germany? What could have been done to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany and its assault on Europe’s Jews?
Ameri- Author: Greene, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1978821689
- Language: English




