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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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Secret Birmingham: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and ObscureAuthor: Cherith FlukerPublisher: Reedy PressPublished: 08/01/2025Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781681066127About the AuthorCherith Glover Fluker is an Alabama-based writer and blogger with a deep-rooted connection to Birmingham's culture and community. While she has built a career in education, she...
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Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and MisunderstoodWhile Scotland's history cannot be separated from its kings and queens, saints, and warriors, there is a rich story to tell about the country's lesser-known places, people, and events. This colorful history of Scotland from award-winning writer Alistair Moffat chooses episodes, half-forgotten or misunderstood,...
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Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging"Based on his own experiences as a first-generation Ghanaian American growing up in New York City, chef and author Adjepong's debut picture book beautifully captures Kofi's complicated feelings of in-betweenness, seeing himself as not quite American enough and not quite Ghanaian enough, even as...
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Salt Green DeathThe documented experiences of Joseph O'Dwyer, a young man who was institutionalized at one of Canada's most notorious historic psychiatric institutions. On November 21, 1948, Joseph O'Dwyer's suicide attempt was interrupted when a bystander pulled him out of the Kitsilano Pool in Vancouver. This...
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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of WitchcraftTormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a...
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Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages (Yesterday's Classics)An excellent introduction to the history of the church through portraits of twenty of the most important saints and heroes of the faith from the third century A.D. to the time of the Reformation. Includes Cyprian, Athanasius, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the...
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Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought ItThe aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was preparing to launch attacks into North Vietnam when one of its jets accidentally fired a rocket into an aircraft occupied by pilot John McCain. A huge fire ensued, and McCain barely escaped before a 1,000-pound bomb on his...
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Sacagawea (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3)Explore one of the most recognized figures in American history with this biography of Sacagawea. Kids will learn about her crucial role in the Lewis and Clark expedition and her influential legacy. The level 3 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers.Author:...
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Run: Book OneRun, Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Memoir, is an essential graphic novel, whether for the home or the classroom. First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind March. This follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic...
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Run and Hide: How Jewish Youth Escaped the Holocaust: A Graphic NovelA gripping nonfiction graphic novel that follows the stories of Jewish children, separated from their parents, who escaped the horrors of the Holocaust. From the Sibert Honor and YALSA Award-winning creator behind The Unwanted, Drowned City, and others. In the tightening grip of Hitler's...
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Romanticism: A Very Short IntroductionIn this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and...
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Ripples from the Rupununi: Dr. Aidun's Healing JourneySomewhere over the rainforest in Guyana there's a land called the Rupununi, a creek-crossed savannah inhabited for millenia by Indigenous people of great capacity. This is where Dr. Jamshid Aidun, a Persian Canadian surgeon and a humble man of faith, went to lead the...
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Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin, and Successful TreatmentsAn eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat - "[Gary] Taubes's meticulous, science-based work makes him the Bryan Stevenson of nutrition, an early voice in the wilderness for an...
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World"I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book...there are clues and messages for every fortunate reader who picks it up." --Annie Proulx *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* A landmark history of the peasant experience, exploring...
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Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the PhilippinesRedemption is a sweeping new history of the largest and costliest campaign waged by US armed forces during the Pacific War. Peter Mansoor surveys the course of the Philippines campaign, from the Japanese invasion and the Filipino guerrilla operations which contested occupation to the...
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Rao's Cookbook: Over 100 Years of Italian Home CookingRao's, the hundred-year-old restaurant with a mere ten tables tucked in a corner of East Harlem in what was once a legendary Italian neighborhood, is one of the most sought-after restaurants in all of Manhattan. Its tables are booked months in advance by regulars...
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Race and the University: A MemoirIn 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor's warning to avoid the "redneck school in a backward state." Henderson became the university's third African American professor, a hire that seemed...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary TwinsFeaturing the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby, and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twain's darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A....
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Practical Alchemy: A Guide to the Great WorkA concise guide to the history, theory, and practice of alchemy (the "great work")--the art of working with the energies of nature for spiritual development, healing, and transformation.Alchemy is a means of understanding and working in concert with the energies of nature for spiritual...
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Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman WorldA wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast...
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