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The Stolen Child
$17.99 Add to cartFor decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he’d befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands–and disapp
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110392
- Language: English
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
$31.99 Add to cartThousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.
What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and
- Author: Al-Rashid, Moudhy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036427
- Language: English
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Frankenstein: A Norton Critical Edition
$19.47 Add to cart“Because I’m teaching an intro-level course in comparative literature, this edition was extremely helpful in showing the variety of critical approaches that they can take toward a single text. The art… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393644022
- Language: English
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
$21.99 Add to cartWhether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015)–underground actress, porn star, producer of adult
- Author: Kamensky, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105380
- Language: English
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Strata: Stories from Deep Time
$29.99 Add to cartThe epic stories of our planet’s 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata–ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this bril
- Author: Poppick, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021608
- Language: English
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Illiberal America: A History
$21.99 Add to cartA storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob vio
- Author: Hahn, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110503
- Language: English
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The Steppenwolf
$16.99 Add to cartThe quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller–better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes capt
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105992
- Language: English
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The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS
$31.99 Add to cartMichael Hardwick had no idea that when a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, he would become a face of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right
- Author: Padgett, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035412
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
$35.00 Add to cartToday it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, or watch a movie or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things po
- Author: Burgess, Anika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051108
- Language: English
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Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji
$19.99 Add to cartWe are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, K
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075147
- Language: English
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
$27.99 Add to cartNearly forty years after the official end of the Vietnam War, Dear America allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in Vietnam. In this collection of mor… [more below]
- Author: Edelman, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323048
- Language: English
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The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086351
- Language: English
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The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815?1945
$49.99 Add to cartAcross two acclaimed volumes, preeminent naval historian N. A. M. Rodger has traced the progress of naval warfare in Britain from the seventh century through to Trafalgar, combining decades of scholar
- Author: Rodger, N. A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 393292223
- Language: English
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$18.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110384
- Language: English
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This Strange Eventful History
$18.99 Add to cartOver seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state–separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian ind
- Author: Messud, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110406
- Language: English
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Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
$31.99 Add to cartTo his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a k
- Author: Nevala-Lee, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075104
- Language: English
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Summers in Squid Tickle: A Newfoundland Odyssey
$29.99 Add to cartRobert Finch arrived in Newfoundland in the summer of 1995 heartsick, directionless, his old life on Cape Cod in tatters. Burnside, located in Newfoundland’s rugged northeast, seemed like a good place
- Author: Finch, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051310
- Language: English
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Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists
$35.00 Add to cartIn 2008, academic and scholar Susan Gubar was told by a trusted oncologist that she had only a few years left to live. Though she outlived that dire prognosis, this brush with mortality refocused her
- Author: Gubar, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065648
- Language: English
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Some Strange Music Draws Me in
$18.99 Add to cartIt’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel’s dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia’s
- Author: Hansbury, Griffin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105240
- Language: English
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The Original
$28.99 Add to cartBrought to her uncle’s decaying Oxfordshire estate when she was a child, Grace has grown up on the periphery of a once-great household, an outsider in her own home. Now a self-possessed and secretive
- Author: Stevens, Nell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110694
- Language: English
