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What They Didn’t Burn: Uncovering My Father’s Holocaust Secrets
$17.95 Add to cartWhat if you uncovered a cache of buried Nazi documents that revealed your father as a man very different than the one you knew-or thought you knew? In this poignant memoir, Mel Laytner, a former repor… [more below]
- Author: Laytner, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1684631033
- Language: English
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
$16.95 Add to cartThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Author: Venezia, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0745643841
- Language: English
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
$20.00 Read moreA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets
In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sug- Author: Mintz, Sidney W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140092331
- Language: English
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Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media
$22.00 Add to cartA “highly readable and compelling” account (Science) of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
“Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a- Author: Dimsdale, Joel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271034
- Language: English
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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
$10.99 Add to cart2002 Sibert Medal Winner
In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six milli- Author: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0618548831
- Language: English
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The Pianist (Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition): The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
$18.00 Add to cartThe 75th Anniversary Edition of the memoir that inspired Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film, with a new introduction by Szpilman’s son, Andrzej
On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin- Author: Szpilman, Wladyslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1250249546
- Language: English
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
$30.00 Add to cartACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST – 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER – 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES – BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN A… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Gary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 110197107X
- Language: English
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The Journey of a Hidden Child
$17.95 Add to cartBelgium, 1941. Rosa and Charles Russ give their newborn son, Jean-Pierre, to their non-Jewish friends for safekeeping; they are not aware that the couple is involved in espionage for the British, putt
- Series: Jewish Children in the Holocaust
- Author: Pila, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9493276546
- Language: English
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
$32.99 Add to cartEqual parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest th
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0063371405
- Language: English
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
$34.00 Add to cartA thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time–from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Opera… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014279
- Language: English
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Irena’s Gift: An Epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets, and Survival
$28.00 Read moreWeaving mystery, history and memoir, Irena’s Gift is the captivating account of one woman’s personal quest to uncover the unspoken and give voice to her family’s secret war-torn history.
From the gli- Author: Kirsten, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0806543655
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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The Blue Castle: The Original Manuscript
$19.95 Add to cartPublished for the first time ever, the first draft of The Blue Castle exactly as L. M. Montgomery originally wrote it, with critical context from a leading Montgomery scholar.
Available for the first
- Author: Montgomery, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 177471275X
- Language: English
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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
$28.99 Read more“I’ve never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism.” –Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of B… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1668056917
- Language: English
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What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why)
$29.12 Read moreThe first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen’s own readers
- Author: Ford, Susan Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1350416711
- Language: English
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Holocaust Refugees in Oswego: From Nazi Europe to Lake Ontario
$24.99 Read moreAmerica’s Only Shelter Established for Holocaust Refugees
During the height of the second World War, at the order of President Roosevelt, Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York housed 982 refugees, rescued
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Allen, Ann Callaghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155950
- Language: English
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
$20.99 Read moreNamed a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for No… [more below]
- Author: Cumming, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1982181753
- Language: English
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Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
$25.00 Add to cartA sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II
“When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling.”–Ian W. To- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 644
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276788
- Language: English
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Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush
$17.00 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed definitive biography of Kate Bush, revised and updated for 2024, with a new foreword by Sin?ad Gleeson.
Detailing everything from Bush’s upbringing to her early exposition of t
- Series: Omnibus Remastered #1
- Author: Thomson, Graeme
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1915841356
- Language: English
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For God, Glory, and Gold: Spanish Exploration of La Florida and the Mainland: 1513-1543
$11.95 Add to cart- Author: Macdougald, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1662951892
- Language: English
