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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
$29.99 Add to cartIn the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad f
- Author: Edwards, Justene Hill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073853
- Language: English
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Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
$29.99 Add to cartLong before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to P
- Author: Dwork, Deb?rah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020342
- Language: English
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How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
$18.99 Add to cartAcid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives.
- Author: Leung, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076186
- Language: English
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Alexandra Petri’s Us History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
$18.99 Add to cartAs a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn’t learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat histor
- Author: Petri, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074760
- Language: English
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Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartAlbertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and t
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 132408622X
- Language: English
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days
$32.50 Add to cartGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a “universal genius” who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (indepen
- Author: Kempe, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093943
- Language: English
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From One Cell: A Journey Into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine
$17.99 Add to cartEach of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as
- Author: Stanger, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076046
- Language: English
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The Widow’s Crayon Box: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartAfter her husband’s death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems–joyful, furio
- Author: Peacock, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079436
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems
$27.99 Add to cartOpening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrati
- Author: Hahn, Kimiko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086068
- Language: English
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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
$18.99 Add to cartSome of humanity’s mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale–and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural enginee
- Author: Agrawal, Roma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086386
- Language: English
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Meat Pies: An Emerging American Craft
$39.99 Add to cartWhen it comes to American cooking, no chef-writer duo is more revered than Chef Brian Polcyn and Michael Ruhlman. In their new cookbook, Meat Pies, they cover the fundamentals of meat, seafood, and ve
- Author: Polcyn, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0393541711
- Language: English
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Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods
$19.99 Add to cartApples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States’ “most endangered food.” The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at “critical” risk for extinction. Unique date palms, fou
- Author: Lohman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086335
- Language: English
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The Waters
$18.99 Add to cartOn an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp–an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan–herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of
- Author: Campbell, Bonnie Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1324105151
- Language: English
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DAO de Jing
$27.99 Add to cartThis bold new translation by two brilliant poets offers a contemporary perspective on a timeless masterpiece of Daoist scripture, introducing Dao De Jing to a new audience while retaining the majesty
- Author: Laozi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079169
- Language: English
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
$32.99 Add to cartIn imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while s
- Author: Barraclough, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324089237
- Language: English
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Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically
$22.99 Add to cartWhat makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poem–including
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881989
- Language: English
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A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters
$22.99 Add to cartUnlike earthquakes and other natural catastrophes, this “new species of trouble” afflicts persons and groups in particularly disruptive ways.
With clear-eyed compassion, in vivid narrative and in part… [more below]
- Author: Erikson, Kai T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0393313190
- Language: English
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Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years
$19.99 Add to cartTwenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing clothing created from spun fibers. In Women’s Work, archaeologist-linguist Elizabeth Wayland Barber “weaves the strands of mythology and litera
- Author: Barber, Elizabeth Wayland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 132407602X
- Language: English
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Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World
$17.99 Add to cartWhat is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers–such as Gran Fu
- Author: Massie-Blomfield, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078758
- Language: English
