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The Watchmakers: A Powerful Ww2 Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust
$28.00 Read more“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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The Beloved Vision: A History of Nineteenth Century Music
$29.95 Read 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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Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State
$22.00 Add 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
$50.00 Read 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
$35.00 Read 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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Tudor England: A History
$37.50 Read 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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B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India’s Dispossessed
$24.95 Read 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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Samson: A Savior Will Rise
$15.99 Read 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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Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader
$22.95 Read 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
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Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
$35.00 Read moreIn the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire…. [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0863569501
- Language: English
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies Volume 1
$21.95 Read moreContains three of Chesterton’s most influential works. In Heretics, Chesterton sets forth one of the most telling critiques of contemporary religious notions ever. The Blatchford Controversies are the… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: February 13 1986
- ISBN10: 0898700795
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- Language: English
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Why Argument Matters
$20.00 Add to cartHailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence”
“An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Siegel, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271077
- Language: English
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Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
$35.00 Read moreAmongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed u… [more below]
- Author: Darlington, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 030025928X
- Language: English
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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
$23.95 Read moreA chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 23 men tort… [more below]
- Author: Spitz, Vivien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1591810329
- Language: English
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict – Catholic against Protesta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mulholland, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198825005
- Language: English
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A Gypsy in Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
$12.99 Add to cartA unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child’s survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them- Author: Rosenberg, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 180096112X
- Language: English
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust–conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”–Th… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1101903473
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
