Topical/Women's History
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Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award
Omaha Beach legend Ray Lambert’s unforgettable firsthand account of D-Day
“Lambert landed on [Omaha B
- Author: Lambert, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0062947583
- Language: English
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Gladys Aylward: A Life for China
$17.99 Add to cartWounded by a Japanese bullet as she led nearly a hundred refugee children to safety over the mountains of China, Gladys Aylward’s story has been immortalised through the film ‘The Inn of the Sixth Hap… [more below]
- Author: Purves, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1909281492
- Language: English
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The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors
$29.95 Read moreAnne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived the king’s wrath. But this is not the end of the tale … [more below]
- Author: Harvey Purse, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1398100226
- Language: English
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The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece
$18.99 Read more“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to o
- Author: Weinman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0062661930
- Language: English
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Why I Left, Why I Stayed
$18.99 Add to cartBestselling Christian author, activist, and scholar Tony Campolo and his son Bart, an avowed Humanist, debate their spiritual differences and explore similarities involving faith, belief, and hope tha
- Author: Campolo, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0062415387
- Language: English
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Aimee and Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful, poignant, and inspirational novel, a Lambda Literary Award winner, is the true story of two unlikely lovers set against World War II Berlin–a riveting chronicle of love, loyalty, and s
- Author: Fischer, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0062390376
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
$19.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake — seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his p
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060934433
- Language: English
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No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West
$31.58 Add to cartNo Place for a Woman explores the history of the fight for women’s rights in the West, examining the conditions that prevailed during the vast migration of pioneers looking for free land and opportuni… [more below]
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072412
- Language: English
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Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage
$29.99 Read moreExquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as distinctive in style as her position in the world was unique. This remark
- Author: Eastoe, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1911682547
- Language: English
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From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
$27.99 Read more“From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and… [more below]
- Author: Meslow, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063026295
- Language: English
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New England’s Notable Women: The Stories and Sites of Trailblazers and Achievers
$21.95 Add to cartNew England has nurtured countless women who shook off traditional gender roles to forge their own destinies. They didn’t set out to be role models, but that’s what they became. This book features for
- Author: Harris, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493066013
- Language: English
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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
$31.18 Add to cartThe rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provided free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March 2020, when the US- Author: Hong, Mai-Linh K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 520384008
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
$24.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
The unforgettable story of two unsung heroes of World War II: sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper who joined the Dutch Resistance, helped save dozen of lives, were captured
- Author: Van Iperen, Roxane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0063119331
- Language: English
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The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West
$17.99 Add to cartThe award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey’s restaurants along the Santa Fe railway — and went on to shape the American Southwest
From the 1880s to the 1950s, the Ha- Author: Poling-Kempes, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 1994
- ISBN10: 1569249261
- Language: English
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Two Potts, a Faucett, and a Double Hanging: The Only Married Americans Executed Simultaneously
$22.95 Add to cartManchester, England natives Josiah and Elizabeth Potts have the dubious distinction of being the first-and only-married couple ever executed simultaneously in American history. Somehow their bizarre s… [more below]
- Author: Sharp, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1977264395
- Language: English
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Colorado Women in World War II
$23.95 Add to cartFour months before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Mildred McClellan Melville, a member of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, predicted that war would come for the United States and that i
- Series: Timberline Books
- Author: Beaton, Gail M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1646425588
- Language: English
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A Radical Suffragist in Washington, D.C.: An Inside Story of the National Woman’s Party
$24.99 Read moreIn September 1918 Elizabeth Kalb boarded a train to Washington, DC to fight for voting rights for women. For over two years, Elizabeth lived and worked at the National Woman’s Party headquarters a blo… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Marshall, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1467155888
- Language: English
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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
$19.99 Add to cart“Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . . . If the picture Moorhead paints is messi
- Series: Resistance Quartet #2
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062202480
- 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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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence
$19.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence–for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves…. [Her] lively book reclaims a
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075327
- Language: English
