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Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Everything NBAAuthor: Rachel GrackPublisher: Eureka!Published: 09/01/2025Pages: 48Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.22h x 7.76w x 0.35dISBN: 9798893045598Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.7Point Value: 1Interest Level: Middle Grade PlusQuiz #/Name: 555765 / Everything NBA
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Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of Creation Volumes 1 and 2 bound togetherThe Babylonian and Assyrian Legends Concerning the Creation of the World and of Mankind. The Enuma Elish is one of the oldest stories known to mankind. It is a story first written down by the ancient Sumerians thousands of years ago. As a one...
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Ducks at a Distance: A Waterfowl Identification GuideRobert W. (Bob) Hines (1912-1994) was an American wildlife artist.This publication features different species of waterfowl and information on how to identify them by plumage colors, flock patterns, silhouettes and sounds. Includes many illustrations. Author: Bob HinesPublisher: Must Have BooksPublished: 08/16/2022Pages: 60Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Drawing Architecture'An uncommonly intelligent guide through 4,000 years of spaces and buildings.' - San Francisco ChronicleBack in print, an elegant presentation of stunning and inspiring architectural drawings from antiquity to the present dayThroughout history, architects have relied on drawings both to develop their ideas and...
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Dispatches: Introduction by Robert StoneWritten on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of...
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Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775. Second Edition (Revised)This second edition contains fully 30% more convict passengers than in the original.Dr. Dobson has made some modifications as well; for example, some men who were thought to have been Covenanters are now classed as rebels and English transportees have been omitted, while the...
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Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War fromWAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It's November 1941. Japan and the US are teetering on a knife-edge as leaders on both sides of the Pacific strive to prevent war between them. But failed diplomacy, foiled negotiations, and possible duplicity in the...
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history--and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it. Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters...
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Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar AmericaHow suburbanization was a crucial catalyst for reforms in the Catholic Church. The 1960s in America were a time of revolt against the stifling conformism embodied in the sprawling, uniform suburbs of the 1950s. Typically, the reforms of the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council,...
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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global EmpireIn Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers--a tactical advantage no other...
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Connecticut 169 Club: Your Passport & Guide to Exploring Connecticut: New 5th EditionEvery one of Connecticut's 169 towns has a story shaped by its geography and its people--the first inhabited the state more than 10,000 years ago, the Dutch traders, English settlers, and Africans--enslaved and free--who settled towns as one of the original 13 colonies, and...
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Confucius: The Secular as SacredConfucius: The Secular as Sacred by philosopher Herbert Fingarette was a milestone in the study of the ancient Chinese sage Confucius when it was published fifty years ago, and it remains required reading for anyone interested in Chinese or comparative philosophy today. This modern...
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Comandante: Hugo Chávez's Venezuela"An impressively well-researched and readable portrait . . . a useful reminder of what el Comandante did and didn't achieve, how he got away with it, and the danger of statesmen-as-showmen whose promises are too good to be true." --The New York Times Book...
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Codename Nemo: The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma MachineThe white-knuckled saga of the US Navy task force that captured Nazi submarine U-505 and the Enigma machine. Two days before D-Day--the course of World War II was forever changed. The German hunters of the Atlantic Ocean had become the hunted, and US antisubmarine...
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Cheers to McGillin's: Philly's Oldest TavernAuthor: Irene Levy BakerPublisher: Camino BooksPublished: 10/14/2025Pages: 160Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.80w x 0.90dISBN: 9781680980684About the AuthorIrene Levy Baker is the author of 100 Things To Do In Philadelphia and Unique Eats and Eateries of Philadelphia. She is always hungry for adventures...
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Bruegel. the Complete Paintings. 45th Ed.The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba's brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands, and the palpable effects of the Inquisition. To this day, the Flemish...
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Brooding Upon the Waters: A Memoir of Farming, Fishing, and Failure in America's Lost LandscapeWhen thirty years of untreated bipolar disorder left his father fighting for his life, Howard Schaap began to wonder how this man had fallen so far-from Minnesota's Young Farmer of the Year to financial failure in the farm crisis to a bed in the...
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Born Twice: Memoir of a Special Forces SOG Warriorr"...a near-unbelievable story of deadly missions carried out by small Green Beret-led teams operating deep in enemy territory against all but impossible odds."-Michael P Buckland, Special Forces SOG warrior"These were extremely dangerous, top secret operations, which tested Hanson's mettle; the Christian values of his...
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Boon Island: A True Story of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and CannibalismThe wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island and the resultant rumors of insurance fraud, mutiny, treason, and cannibalism was one of the most sensational stories of the early 18th century. Shortly after departing England with Captain John Deane at the helm, his...
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Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBAA vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation's imagined descent into disorder. A...
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