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Residue: A Kevin Kerney Novel
$15.95 Read moreA long-unsolved missing person’s case becomes a homicide investigation when the bones of the girlfriend of now retired Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney are unearthed forty-five years after her disap
- Series: Kevin Kerney Novels #13
- Author: McGarrity, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357570
- Language: English
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The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century
$31.99 Add to cartAward-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills,
- Author: Hodes, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 039333029X
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Being
$15.95 Add to cartThe brilliant psychologist Rollo May was a major force in existential psychology. Here, he brings together the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and other great thinkers to offer insights into its idea
- Author: May, Rollo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 04 2015
- ISBN10: 039335086X
- Language: English
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Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
$26.95 Read moreStoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. Widely recognized as the most ta
- Author: Fideler, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 039353166X
- Language: English
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The Reverse of the Medal
$15.95 Read moreCaptain Jack Aubrey, accomplished at sea but dreadfully vulnerable on land, finds himself ashore after a successful cruise. With his prize money burning a hole in his pocket, he is persuaded by a kind… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #11
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020512
- Language: English
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Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
$45.00 Read moreThe conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter–Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice–is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Fran
- Author: Snyder, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1324004878
- Language: English
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The Letter of Marque
$15.95 Read moreCaptain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship’s surgeon
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #12
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393309053
- Language: English
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Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
$19.95 Add to cartOn April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refinerie
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352277
- Language: English
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Foreign Bodies: Poems
$16.95 Read moreInspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson’s collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia’s M?ter Museum, Kimiko Hahn’s tenth collection investigates the grip that seemingly insignific
- Author: Hahn, Kimiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882446
- Language: English
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Seeing the Body: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartPoems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss.
In radiant poems-
- Author: Griffiths, Rachel Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020164
- Language: English
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The Wine-Dark Sea
$15.95 Read moreAt the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean reminds Steph… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #16
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021543
- Language: English
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
$22.00 Read moreIn roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction b
- Author: Ngai, Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036109
- Language: English
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The Shattering: America in the 1960s
$22.00 Read moreOn July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the fol
- Author: Boyle, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036117
- Language: English
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
$17.95 Read moreProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to r
- Author: McGirr, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353524
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: A New Translation
$17.95 Read moreOvid’s epic poem–whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages–is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s times to the present day, when writers
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 039332642X
- Language: English
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
$14.99 Add to cartExamining the psyche–and psychoses–of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power an
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356973
- Language: English
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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
$21.99 Add to cartA new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives–and cause profound disruptions in the balance of globa
- Author: Scharre, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074779
- Language: English
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Bones: Inside and Out
$17.95 Read moreHuman bone is versatile and entirely unique: it repairs itself without scarring, it’s lightweight but responds to stresses, and it’s durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surge
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868257
- Language: English
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The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
$20.00 Add to cartIn the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard’s life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the “Dean of American
- Author: Birdsall, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020245
- Language: English
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Hold Fast
$16.95 Read moreIt’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resi
- Series: A Thomas Grey Novel #1
- Author: Gelernter, J. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882470
- Language: English
