Old Is Gold
Discover old books and books of old at our online bookstore. Shop old classic books, best-selling books, and timeless treasures—perfect for collectors and book lovers alike!
-
In Defense of Partisanship"Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship." --Frances Lee, Princeton University Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is one issue on which almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree, it's the belief that...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Where I Was from: A MemoirFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" (The Baltimore Sun), Didion--a native Californian--reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Defining Moment: Fdr's Hundred Days and the Triumph of HopeThis is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown....
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Omensetter's Luck"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New Republic Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's Luck is the masterful first novel by the author of The Tunnel, Middle C, On Being Blue, and Eyes:...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Leadership: In Turbulent TimesFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and...
- $36.00 USD
$68.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Cold VictoryAN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF THE MONTHFrom New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate testHelsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Sun Also Rises: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Hemingway's classic novel of post-war disillusionment--the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation--now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by R. Kikuo Johnson and a new introduction by...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American LegendThis acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is "a page-turner with remarkable immediacy...and the narrative sweep of a great Western" (The Boston Globe). Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States...
- $36.00 USD
$68.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Our EveningsFrom the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, "an engrossing tale of one man's personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) "The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White SupremacyWINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTIONFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans.By the 1890s, Wilmington was North Carolina's largest city and a shining example...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress PrisonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "entertaining [and] often-moving account" (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor"Macintyre...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore RooseveltThe National Book Award-winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough. Mornings...
- $36.00 USD
$68.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Nineties: A BookAn instant New York Times bestseller! "Informative, endlessly entertaining."--BuzzFeed "Generation X's definitive chronicler of culture."--GQ From the author of But What If We're Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade It was long ago, but not as long as it seems:...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human BeingFrench philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment A Penguin Classic One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna PickNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II--a story of love, family, bravery, lost...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Underground LibraryWhen the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community's beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir. When the new deputy librarian,...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and BeyondThis New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director. Gene Kranz was present...
- $36.00 USD
$68.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Secret History of Audrey JamesAn astonishing historical novel of one woman's dangerous journey through World War II Germany and her life-changing friendship with a young woman decades later--from the #1 international bestselling author of Looking for Jane "A fascinating and moving story of courage, sacrifice, and friendship."--Kristin Harmel,...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Mademoiselle AllianceHow did a young Parisian mother, celebrated for her beauty and glamour, come to lead the largest spy network in occupied France? "A passionate, fiery tribute to a historical woman so extraordinary she almost defies belief."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Lost PassengerAn immersive historical drama about a young mother who starts a new life with her son in New York after faking their deaths on the Titanic--the U.S. debut of acclaimed British novelist Frances Quinn."A compelling examination of the cost of dreams, delusions of the...
- $36.00 USD
$64.99 USD- $36.00 USD
- Unit price
- per