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Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World’s Longest Highway
$29.95 Add to cartAn expansive and subversive history of the Pan-American Highway.
A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown–even to the hundreds of motorists who- Author: Miller, Shawn William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0520416937
- Language: English
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Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
$27.00 Add to cartThe authoritative, unforgettable biography of Martin Luther, the great religious leader, who entered a monastery as a youth and who, as a man, shattered the structure of the medieval church. Luther sp… [more below]
- Author: Bainton, Roland H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0452011469
- Language: English
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Mark Twain
$25.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller – One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025- A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book – Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Ch… [more below]
- Author: Chernow, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0525561749
- Language: English
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father
$28.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE
The true story of a Founding Father: a new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria.
“Lively,
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0062845993
- Language: English
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A Sure Way: Following Truth in a World on Fire
$12.95 Add to cartA rising feminist thinker, Edith Stein examined everything in her relentless pursuit of truth. This ultimately led her to the foot of Jesus’ cross and to taking the veil as a Carmelite nun. Though sh
- Series: Plough Spiritual Guides
- Author: Stein, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1636081762
- Language: English
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Tripped: Nazi Germany, the Cia, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
$18.99 Add to cart“A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The author of the New Y
- Author: Ohler, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0063511231
- Language: English
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Abraham Lincoln’s Honored Dead at The Gettysburg National Cemetery: Profiles of the 2,000 Soldiers with Names Preserved for Their Gravestones
$22.99 Add to cartAt the November 19, 1863, dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address, eulogizing the “honored dead” being interred there. Only half of the f
- Author: Christian, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822979673
- Language: English
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
$19.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 – THE WASHINGTON POST‘S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 – THE ATLANTIC‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 – THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S BEST BOOKS OF… [more below]
- Author: Gilliland, Haley Cohen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1668017156
- Language: English
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7 Parables for the People
$13.95 Add to cart7 Parables For The People is a gritty, provocative, aggressive and raw verse novel about the forces of evil that are currently gaining momentum inside the body politic of these United States. It is an
- Author: Bland, Shawn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798897856701
- Language: English
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck’s classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period… [more below]
- Author: Shattuck, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704150
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-cen… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593466713
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of AI: The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It
$16.95 Add to cartSince Alan Turing first posed the question “Can machines think?” artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Walsh, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030891
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$24.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and sti- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 069125558X
- Language: English
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy–And Why It Failed
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known story about the first assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy, right before hi
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250790573
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Add to cartIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
$8.95 Read moreSimone Arnold is an ordinary French schoolgirl, spirited and stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding complete conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. School officials … [more below]
- Author: Liebster, Simone Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1937188000
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Add to cartA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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The Professor’s House
$9.99 Add to cart‘I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuries’
The Professor’s House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Pete- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0198861354
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
$22.99 Read moreA first-person historical record of the Manhattan Project, and the events leading to the birth of the Atomic bomb, as told by the researchers, scientists, and developers intimately involved in its cre… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Cynthia C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0762471271
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
$20.00 Add to cartIn a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that … [more below]
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078679
- Language: English
