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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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Hall of MirrorsA New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year A Washington Post and TODAY.com must-read book selection An Agatha Award, Lefty Award, and Macavity Award finalist! When a popular mystery novelist dies suspiciously, his writing partner must untangle the author's connection to a...
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Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford CarFrontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place in different parts of the West, moving chronologically from the fur trade era to the...
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Becoming Walla Walla: The Transformation of Cayuse Country, 1805-1879The first Euro-Americans to trek through the verdant Walla Walla Valley were uniformly impressed with its prospects for colonization. The Cayuse remained the valley's primary inhabitants until diverse populations with equally diverse objectives--manipulative traders, frictional missionaries, hostile colonists, an over-ambitious governor, a distracted Bureau...
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The Last DekrepitzerWINNER NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDThe fiddler busking in the Columbus Circle subway station in 1965 is the Dekrepitzer Rebbe, the sole survivor of the obscure Dekrepitzer Hasidic sect known before the war for its rebbes' fiddling. The Last Dekrepitzer follows the life and spiritual...
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Man's Search for MeaningWe needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life...
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The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp TowerHow an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof...
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A Lesser LightOn the rocky shores of Lake Superior, a piercing story of selfhood and determinism develops: is the future what we're handed or what we make of it? It's 1910, and Theodulf Sauer has finally achieved a position befitting his ego: master lighthouse keeper at...
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White House Usher: Stories from the InsideForeword by Barbara Bush.From January 1986 until March 1994, Chris Emery was part of one of the most unique services in the U.S. government--an usher in the White House.For more than 200 years, a small office has operated on the State Floor of the...
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Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip"Kate makes me want to take a road trip. She's lovable and charming, and her voice... SO GOOD." -Kerry Chaput, author of the Defying the Crown series"An uplifting and heartwarming tale of resilience, friendship, and the pursuit of a life brimming with adventure and...
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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner)William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land...
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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the WorldFor the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive...
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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American MemoryWinner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass Prize No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had...
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This Way Out"A moving and entertaining account of youthful resilience." -Edward Zuckerman, Emmy-winning writer for Law & Order, author of Wealth Management: A ThrillerA gutsy coming-of-age novel that may rip your heart out. Set in Philadelphia during the tumultuous 1960s, This Way Out is the story...
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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton KingdomWinner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities "A brilliant book...This transformative work...
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What We Tried to Bury Grows HereA Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War, now in a new paperback edition. "Julian Zabalbeascoa is the real deal, a major talent, and the story he's telling...
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The Silver BookArt, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975. It is September 1974. Two men meet in Venice. One is a young English artist,...
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The Land in WinterSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZEWINNER2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction2025 Winston Graham Historical Prize for Fiction"Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect...Superb."--Samantha Harvey, Booker Prize-winning author of OrbitalDecember 1962: In a village deep in the English countryside, two neighboring couples begin the day. Local...
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All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal MindAcclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff--a serial murderer who was called "too intelligent to be killed"--and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to...
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The Storm We Made: A Good Morning America Book Club PickNATIONAL BESTSELLER * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE In this "espionage-laden family epic" (Vanity Fair), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy--and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable...
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern AsiaWINNER OF THE ARTHUR ROSS BOOK AWARD FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS - ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST - 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER - 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK...
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