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Kent State: An American Tragedy
$35.00 Add to cartOn May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taun
- Author: Vandemark, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066253
- Language: English
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Come to the Window
$27.99 Add to cartIt’s 1918. The war in Europe grinds on, and the Spanish flu seems to be on an insatiable killing spree. But in the small fishing village of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, a more confined drama–harrowing and
- Author: Norman, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 132407633X
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
$18.99 Add to cartPhosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has
- Author: Egan, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074728
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$27.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006978
- Language: English
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More Mexican Everyday: Simple, Seasonal, Celebratory
$35.00 Add to cartRick Bayless transformed America’s understanding of Mexican cuisine with his Mexican Everyday. Now, Rick returns with an all-new collection of uniquely flavorful recipes, each one the product of his e
- Author: Bayless, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0393081141
- Language: English
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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women’s Movement
$29.99 Add to cartIn England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman–if there were such
- Author: Gibson, Susannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881385
- Language: English
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Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-Than-Human World
$29.99 Add to cartHoneybees deliberate democratically. Rats reflect on the past. Snakes have friends. In recent decades, our understanding of animal cognition has exploded, making it indisputably clear that the cities
- Author: Keim, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007087
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017–revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious and lean” (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)–critics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076143
- Language: English
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The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
$32.50 Add to cartImagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.
In this propulsive and eminently read
- Author: Brettschneider, Corey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006277
- Language: English
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Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
$26.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between t
- Author: Beers, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075082
- Language: English
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American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous
$27.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine, a
- Author: Paredez, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035307
- Language: English
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Old King
$27.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as a logger and builds a cabin on an isolated road n
- Author: Loskutoff, Maxim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0393868192
- Language: English
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Why War?
$27.99 Add to cartRichard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whe
- Author: Overy, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324021748
- Language: English
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Coexistence: Stories
$15.99 Add to cartA grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter’s love. The anonymous voices of queer native men converge amid violent eroti
- Author: Belcourt, Billy-Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075945
- Language: English
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Caledonian Road
$32.50 Add to cartCampbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and f?ted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public–yet he never imagined that a single year in L
- Author: O’Hagan, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074876
- Language: English
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Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
$13.54 Add to cartA refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels
- Author: Glover, Hoke S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078871
- Language: English
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Such Kindness
$18.99 Add to cartTom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortga
- Author: Dubus, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076135
- Language: English
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The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
$32.50 Add to cartWith the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong. Why aren’t college graduates able to achieve financial security? Why is governme
- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091169
- Language: English
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
$17.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatme
- Author: Sevigny, Melissa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076119
- Language: English
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$27.99 Add to cartIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live i
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882004
- Language: English
