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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!
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A Bitter WindTo solve a murder at an English airbase, US Army Captain Billy Boyle must immerse himself in the fascinating and secretive world of WWII radio espionage. Christmas Day 1944: After his last mission put him in the tailspin of the Battle of the Bulge,...
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh ShermanNATIONAL BESTSELLER - William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape--and the American character. America's first "celebrity" general,...
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the PlanetNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history--the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega--and the geologist who hunted for clues to...
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The Color of Lightning LP"Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted.... This is glorious work." -- Washington Post "A gripping, deeply relevant book." -- New York Times Book Review From Paulette Jiles, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather, comes a stirring work...
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CalvinA revealing new portrait of John Calvin that captures his human complexity and the sixteenth-century world in which he fought his personal and theological battles During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith...
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Finding Ruby: The Bright and Dark Sides of a Family's Fervent IdealismRichard Rothman never knew his grandfather, who left behind a wife and young daughter to fight-and die-in the Spanish Civil War. What drove a young, idealistic New Yorker with everything to live for to leave it all behind? This lucid investigation into a family...
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People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the HolocaustQueerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German, Dutch, Czech, and Polish Jewish Holocaust victims and...
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Germany's Black Holocaust: 1890-1945: Details Never Before Revealed!In the 1890s Blacks were tortured in German concentration camps in Southwest Africa (now called Namibia) when Adolph Hitler was only a child. Colonial German doctors conducted unspeakable medical experiments on these emaciated helpless Africans decades before such atrocities were ever visited upon the...
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Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen WilsonIn New York City back in April of 1874, a most unusual event took place. A severely abused nine-year-old girl named Mary Ellen Wilson became the first child in America to be rescued from an abusive home. She had been beaten, burned, slashed with...
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Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern MenThe surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity. How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the...
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Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in TexasThe true story of the corrupt and violent town of Borger, Texas in 1927―and the legendary Texas Ranger tasked with taming it. Just a year after the town of Borger, Texas was founded, the press already called it "the wickedest in the state." The...
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The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American FrontierFrom award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American culture. The Westerners tells two richly detailed and interwoven stories. The first reveals the...
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NonesuchA spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London Blitz--from "one of our most powerful writers of wayward historical fiction" (The Washington Post). Following the acclaim of his previous novels...
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In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and RevolutionFrom acclaimed historian and author of the "marvelous" (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes a captivating new biography of Teddy Roosevelt, exploring the life of America's 26th president and his pivotal role in shaping the dawn of the American...
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Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American PresidencyThe incredible untold story of how the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, waged war upon Spiritualism, uncovering unknown magic, political conspiracies, and surprising secrets along the way.You won't live forever, Houdini. You've got to DIE. I put a curse on you . . ....
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New...
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The Great Forgotten"A must read for lovers of historical fiction and readers all." --Award-winning NYT and USA Today bestselling author Charles Todd "Murphy gracefully memorializes this tragedy . . ." --Booklist One War. Two Loves. A Lifetime to Remember. July 4, 1918, Nashville, Tennessee. Even as...
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JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral BiographyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fascinating...the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written." --The Washington Post The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his closest friends,...
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The Fate of the Generals: Macarthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines"One of the very best World War II books in many years...A great read." --General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA * "Fans of Unbroken will love this book." --Doug Stanton In the tradition of Ghost Soldiers, a "riveting" (The...
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third WorldThe landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World--with a new preface by the author for...
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