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The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
$17.99 Add to cartFrom a young, award-winning scientist, a “thoughtful and illuminating” (Nature) look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time–the race to harness the power of the stars a… [more below]
- Author: Turrell, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1982130679
- Language: English
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade
$29.00 Read moreA groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy’s anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade.
The most feared ship in B- Author: Rooks, A. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982128267
- Language: English
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The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
$20.00 Add to cart“Nuila’s storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande.” —Los Angeles Times
This “compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine”- Author: Nuila, Ricardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 150119805X
- Language: English
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The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
$19.99 Add to cart“A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love.” –Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times … [more below]
- Author: Masters, Oksana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1982185511
- Language: English
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a “cultural critic with a poet’s heart” (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through eme… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0684868768
- Language: English
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library
$17.00 Add to cartThis impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollyw… [more below]
- Author: Wilson-Lee, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982111402
- Language: English
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Son: A Psychopath and His Victims
$22.00 Add to cartA classic from “the dean of true crime” (The Washington Post)–now with a new foreword–this 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the h… [more below]
- Author: Olsen, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1501119044
- Language: English
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
$20.00 Add to cartA young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it–and his new neighborhood–to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meanin… [more below]
- Author: Philp, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1476797994
- Language: English
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
$22.99 Add to cart“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America–Pearl Harbor–based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times be… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1451660502
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law
$26.99 Add to cart
The Final Volume in a Must-Have Trilogy of the Best Closing Arguments in American Legal History
In The Devil’s Advocates, Michael S. Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell turn to the dramatic crimes and tria… [more below]- Author: Lief, Michael S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0743246691
- Language: English
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore’s Ford Lynching in Walton County, G… [more below]
- Author: Wexler, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0684868172
- Language: English
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Essential C. S. Lewis
$20.99 Add to cartAn introduction to C.S. Lewis’s works.
This volume includes a biographical note by the editor, a complete bibliography of C.S. Lewis’s works, three entire works–Perelandra, The Abolition of Man, and- Author: Dorsett, Lyle W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0684823748
- Language: English
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Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe–A Memoir, a History, a Warning.
$18.99 Read more“[Makes] the very convincing case that, until and unless there is a full accounting for what happened with Donald Trump, 2020 is not over and never will be.” —The New Yorker
“Riveting…we can never- Author: Schwarz, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1501199099
- Language: English
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
$19.99 Add to cartA “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Marion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1668002434
- Language: English
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Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail
$20.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of A Civil Action–this true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his Appalachian neighbors to save treasured land from being destroyed will “make you want to head … [more below]
- Author: Leutze, Jay Erskine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1451682646
- Language: English
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Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir of Motherhood and Absence
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily – Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023
“This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” –Kies- Author: Nguyen, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982196351
- Language: English
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Blood Lines
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “highly entertaining” New York Times bestseller from Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, Army CID Special Agents Brodie and Taylor “are the modern warriors the world needs” (BookReporter) and the… [more below]
- Series: Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #2
- Author: DeMille, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1668037750
- Language: English
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The Queen of Katwe: One Girl’s Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion
$16.00 Add to cartNow a major motion picture starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo, directed by Mira Nair. The “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) and “inspirational” (Shelf Awarenes… [more below]
- Author: Crothers, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1501127187
- Language: English
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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
$23.99 Add to cartThis “powerful and chilling” (Publishers Weekly) account of a young girl taken from her native land in South Dakota after the 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women, and children describes the story of Lo… [more below]
- Author: Flood, Renee Sansom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1476790752
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
$18.99 Add to cartSELECTED BY MILITARY TIMES AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * SELECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS’ AS THE BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
The New York Times bestselling author of In Harm’s Way and- Author: Stanton, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1476761949
- Language: English
