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Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life
$35.00 Add to cartFernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Th?r?se Walter, Dora Maar, Fran?oise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women loved and inspired Pablo Picasso. They frequently appear as the
- Author: Roe, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324076402
- Language: English
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Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
$29.99 Add to cartFrom 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. Sponsoring lavish trips to Africa and Central Asia, the mu
- Author: Lunde, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065672
- Language: English
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Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
$35.00 Add to cartDemocracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germany’s first democracy endured for fourteen t
- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110546
- Language: English
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What Remains After a Fire: Stories
$27.99 Add to cartIn eight unflinching and stunningly crafted stories, Kanza Javed unspools the lives of characters desperately trying to forge a path for themselves on the margins of society. An addict teaches his you
- Author: Javed, Kanza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111097
- Language: English
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Making Mary Poppins: The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of a Classic Film
$29.99 Add to cartMaking Mary Poppins reveals the extraordinary true story behind the creation of one of the most beloved films of all time–and the two little-known songwriters who helped make it possible.
Long before
- Author: Pierce, Todd James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111070
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$12.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110317
- Language: English
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Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive Into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them
$29.99 Add to cartSlippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first t
- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881474
- Language: English
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New and Selected Poems
$17.99 Add to cartCharacterized by “a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions” (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie
- Author: Howe, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324117672
- Language: English
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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
$24.00 Add to cartDrawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as “inaccessible,” “irrelevant,” or “intimidat
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050985
- Language: English
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Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815
$49.99 Add to cartThe Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation a
- Author: Rodger, N. A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 998
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328473
- Language: English
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All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies
$26.99 Add to cartHistorian Elizabeth Leonard has combed archives, memoirs, and histories to unearth the stories of the hidden and forgotten women who risked their lives for the blue or the gray. These women spied for … [more below]
- Author: Leonard, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 039333547X
- Language: English
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Heart of the Jaguar: The Extraordinary Conservation Effort to Save the Americas’ Legendary Cat
$35.00 Add to cartOnce indigenous to North America, the jaguar is one of the wildest creatures left on the planet, a resilient and efficient predator, with a natural habitat that extends throughout Mexico and Central a
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393867617
- Language: English
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The Tree of Life: Solving Science’s Greatest Puzzle
$29.99 Add to cartAre humans really fish? Why are we the only animals with chins? How much of our DNA do we share with the trillions of bacteria in our bodies? For centuries, scientists have chased the secrets of how l
- Author: Telford, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065427
- Language: English
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Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly
$39.99 Add to cartStanley Plumly is one of the most emotionally complex, sustaining, and influential American poets of the last fifty years. Born in 1939, Plumly wrote poems that explored the deep interiors of the huma
- Author: Plumly, Stanley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105933
- Language: English
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On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War
$32.99 Add to cartWhen Jens Stoltenberg took office as secretary general of NATO in 2014, the world was already changing. What followed was a decade marked by war, diplomatic crises, and decisions that helped shape the
- Author: Stoltenberg, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111178
- Language: English
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The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects
$31.99 Add to cartOne August day, months after her marriage abruptly ended, a heart-shaped baking tin fell at Bee Wilson’s feet: the same one she had used to bake her wedding cake twenty-three years prior. This discove
- Author: Wilson, Bee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 132407924X
- Language: English
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Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism by Fire
$31.99 Add to cartBetween 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324117575
- Language: English
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Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters
$29.99 Add to cartAt the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence: Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776, ind
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324078979
- Language: English
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The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
$31.99 Add to cartThe nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creat
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051175
- Language: English
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Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
$29.99 Add to cartLithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at a cost. Mining lithium is environmentall
- Author: Riofrancos, Thea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036761
- Language: English
