Simon & Schuster
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Rave on: The Biography of Buddy Holly
$21.99 Add to cartDrawing on interviews with almost everyone who ever associated with Buddy Holly, including his widow, this biography creates a vivid picture of a young man who took the American music scene by storm a… [more below]
- Author: Norman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1476779465
- Language: English
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The Yucks
$19.99 Add to cartFriday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in “a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofessional depths” (Publishers Weekly): the first two seas… [more below]
- Author: Vuic, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1476772274
- Language: English
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A Short Guide to a Long Life
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.In his inter… [more below]
- Author: Agus, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 147673609X
- Language: English
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Players: How Sports Became a Business
$18.99 Add to cart“Provocative…terrific stories” (The New Yorker) of the people who transformed sports–in the span of a single generation–from a job that required even top athletes to work in the off-season to make… [more below]
- Author: Futterman, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 147671696X
- Language: English
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
$23.00 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a “measured, insightful biography that seeks to set the record straight…a deft character study of a pre
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1451625456
- Language: English
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Manifold Destiny: The One! the Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine!
$17.99 Add to cart
Giving new meaning to the term “fast food”
Rest-stop grade F meat patty? Nah. Nuggets of reconstituted poultry bits? Pass. Deep-fried fish discus? No, really, thanks all the same.
It’s time to … [more below]- Author: Maynard, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 18 2008
- ISBN10: 1416596232
- Language: English
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Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Express: 404 Inspired Seasonal Dishes You Can Make in 20 Minutes or Less
$17.00 Add to cartAward-winning cookbook author and popular New York Times columnist Mark Bittman offers 404 quick, easy seasonal recipes, now in paperback.
DO YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES TO MAKE A GREAT MEAL? In Mark Bittman’- Author: Bittman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 21 2011
- ISBN10: 1416575677
- Language: English
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The Darkest Summer
$24.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed, dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War, when outnumbered and outgunned Marines and GIs executed two of the greatest military operations in history and saved South Ko… [more below]
- Author: Sloan, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416571752
- Language: English
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
$19.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. For … [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 1416541632
- Language: English
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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America
$20.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Alan Pell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0743264673
- Language: English
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St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography
$16.99 Add to cart“Lively and lucid.” —The New York Times Book Review
The most authoritative modern biography of the patron saint of Ireland, focusing on the historical Patrick and his times. Ireland’s patron saint ha- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743256344
- Language: English
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The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece — And Western Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartOn a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered b… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0743244516
- Language: English
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have hel… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0743235940
- Language: English
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Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity
$20.99 Add to cartIn his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, “civilizations” were replacing… [more below]
- Author: Huntington, Samuel P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0684870541
- Language: English
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The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf’s Most Prestigious Tournament
$19.99 Add to cartThe Masters. For any golf fan, the words evoke the immortal greats of the game and their quest for the most prized trophy of all — the green jacket of Augusta National Golf Club.
But behind the lege… [more below]- Author: Owen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0684867516
- Language: English
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Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
$19.99 Add to cartOver the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovere… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0684859203
- Language: English
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Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body
$17.99 Add to cartA “brutal, beautifully rendered” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractable polar spa… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Savala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1982137282
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Insects: The Fabulous, Indispensable Creatures Who Run Our World
$18.99 Add to cartThis enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we could not survive without them is “a joy” (The Times, London) and “charming…Highlighting them in all their b… [more below]
- Author: Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1982112883
- Language: English
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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
$18.00 Add to cartTHE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS
The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins–perfect for fans of the movie Mary Poppins Returns and the original Disney clas- Author: Lawson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1476762929
- Language: English
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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
$18.99 Add to cartThe untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.
January, 1- Author: Kurlantzick, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1451667884
- Language: English
