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Ninja
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man’s own treks across Asia
“An immensely entertaining history, packed with splendidly blood
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062202650
- Language: English
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Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway’s First Wife
$18.99 Add to cart“A bittersweet modern love story that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue
“Fascinating. . . . A detailed, grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” —Newsday
Hadley Richardson and Ern
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Diliberto, Gioia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0062108824
- Language: English
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Bad Blood
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain–and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three genera… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Sage, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0062080245
- Language: English
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Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
$19.99 Add to cartDestined to stand with other classic true stories of man against nature–Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer; Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm—Crazy for the Storm is a literary triump
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ollestad, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 006176678X
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
$17.99 Add to cart“A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.” –Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books
“Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0061768278
- Language: English
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip–Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
$17.99 Add to cartAccording to The Waiter, 80 percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining 20 percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths.
Eye-opening, outrageous, and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dublanica, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0061256692
- Language: English
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Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope
$18.99 Add to cartFor a decade in the seventeenth century a woman ran the Catholic Church, through her brother-in-law and reputed lover, Pope Innocent X. Cardinals bowed down to her and princes feted her as she made in
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Herman, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0061245569
- Language: English
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
$17.99 Add to cartA galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intellectuals and Creators, approaches the subject o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061143170
- Language: English
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The Music of the Primes
$17.99 Add to cartInthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi, Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics–… [more below]
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0062064010
- Language: English
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The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
$16.99 Add to cart“I adore the Beekman boys’ story. Their unlikely story of love, the land, and a herd of goats is hilariously honest. If these two can go from Manhattan to a goat farm in upstate New York, then I can’t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kilmer-Purcell, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0061997838
- Language: English
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The Lost Heart of Asia
$17.99 Add to cartA land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin’s cruelest deportations. A remote and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061577677
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Wife
$16.99 Add to cartLittle is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England’s greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Greer, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0061537160
- Language: English
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The Snoring Bird: My Family’s Journey Through a Century of Biology
$17.99 Add to cartAlthough Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his “old-fashioned” father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 006074216X
- Language: English
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Dan Ariely is a genius at understanding human behavior: no economist does a better job of uncovering and explaining the hidden reasons for the weird ways we act.” — James Su
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ariely, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0061995045
- Language: English
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
$19.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 006180410X
- Language: English
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy
$19.99 Add to cart“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal
“Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Leavy, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0061779008
- Language: English
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America
$19.99 Add to cartOne month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee’s harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln’s assassination just f
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winik, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0060899689
- Language: English
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Carney’s House Party/Winona’s Pony Cart: Two Deep Valley Books
$19.99 Add to cartThe Timeless Classics
With a Foreword by Melissa Wiley
This beautiful edition brings together two of Maud Hart Lovelace’s beloved Deep Valley books: Carney’s House Party and Winona’s Pony Cart–standal
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lovelace, Maud Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0062003291
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
$18.99 Add to cartTo travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, d
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231770
- Language: English
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American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
$16.99 Add to cartA remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.
In this extraordi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Swarns, Rachel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0061999873
- Language: English
