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Mississippi Sissy
$25.99 Add to cartMississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the
- Author: Sessums, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0312341024
- Language: English
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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
$20.00 Add to cartA haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of
- Author: Ball, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798612
- Language: English
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City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
$18.00 Add to cartNow one of Kirkus Reviews‘ Best Books of the Year
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking–winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold D- Author: French, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250170591
- Language: English
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Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
$25.99 Add to cart“[Schulte’s] a detective in a murder mystery: Who killed America’s leisure time, and how do we get it back?”–Lev Grossman, Time
When award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two,- Author: Schulte, Brigid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062381
- Language: English
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
$23.99 Add to cartOne smart book…delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.–Newsweek
Bodily waste is common to all and as natural as breathing. We prefer not to talk a- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058309
- Language: English
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We Killed
$25.99 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
We Killed shines in its details and its anecdotes….Well crafted and entertaining.–The Boston Glob
A Very Oral History
With a New Introduction by the Author- Author: Kohen, Yael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037786
- Language: English
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Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 125000232X
- Language: English
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Realigners
$21.00 Add to cartA VITAL NEW VOICE: Shenk is a leading new voice of the millennial left, and a rising historian who’s something of a prodigy. His ambitious dissertation Inventing the American Economy will be published
- Author: Shenk, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872936
- Language: English
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Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop
$20.00 Add to cartThe profoundly moving family history of one of America’s greatest newspapermen.
As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld- Author: Lelyveld, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425104
- Language: English
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Wait for Me!
$26.99 Add to cartThe autobiography of one of Britain’s most beloved figures, last of the Mitford sisters, renowned writer and social figure.
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously wi- Author: Mitford, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610645
- Language: English
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The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
$20.00 Add to cartBiographer and historian Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the “Glass Wall” between Europe and Asia in this riveting historical account.
Few countries have suffered more- Author: Egremont, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863163
- Language: English
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
$19.00 Add to cartThe final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321875
- Language: English
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The Return
$17.00 Add to cart“Dark, intimate and sneakily touching . . . There is gold to be found in [The Return].” –Michael Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review
Composed of thirteen indelible stories, Roberto Bola?o’s The- Author: Bola?o, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250898188
- Language: English
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Cost
$30.99 Add to cartJulia Lambert, an artist, is spending the summer in her old Maine farmhouse. During a visit from her elderly parents, she hopes to mend complicated relationships with her domineering father, a retired
- Author: Robinson, Roxana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428464
- Language: English
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Nuestras almas migrantes (Our Migrant Souls – Spanish Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartGanador del Kirkus Prize para Literatura No Ficci?n
Nominado al Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence en Literatura No Ficci?n
Entre los mejores libros del a?o: The New York Times – Time – Kirkus Revi- Author: Tobar, H?ctor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1250366860
- Language: Spanish
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A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
$19.00 Add to cartNow in its first American edition, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of “being” in the Black Diaspora.
Since- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1250348846
- Language: English
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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day
$34.99 Add to cartThe international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts
- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250134935
- Language: English
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Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
$17.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by People magazine
A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha’s Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring frie- Author: Simon, Carly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758068
- Language: English
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Unexampled Courage
$18.00 Add to cart*The book that inspired the 2021 PBS American Experience documentary, The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.*
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How the blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard changed the course of America’s civil rights history.- Author: Gergel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1250251265
- Language: English
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Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World
$28.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Prince of Providence, a revelatory biography of Rocky Marciano, the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.
The son of poor Italian immigrants, with short arms an- Author: Stanton, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1250210879
- Language: English
