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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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What Do We Know about the Lost Colony of Roanoke?Find out what really happened when an entire colony disappeared in 1590, just five years after it was founded. What is the truth about the missing members of the lost colony of Roanoke? In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to found the very first...
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Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark TimesLive, laugh love and die in the Middle Ages with Weird Medieval Guys! Explore what your medieval life would have been through a choose-your-own-adventure full of quizzes, how-to guides, diagrams and flow charts that takes you from your birth to your gruesome end, revealing...
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Weird But True! Know-It-All Greek MythologyClassic stories from Greek mythology come to life in this latest single-subject themed book in the Weird But True spin-off series, Know-It-All. Zeus, Hades, Aphrodite, Hera, Poseidon, Hercules, Achilles, Ares, Apollo, Athena, Artemis, Dionysus, Prometheus! Fans of Rick Riordan will find this is the...
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Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art"A beautifully produced, authoritative volume."--Kirkus Reviews Explores Wayne Thiebaud's career as a self-described "thief" who appropriated and reinterpreted old and new European and American artworks. Although artist Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) earned acclaim for his poetic renderings of the prosaic particulars of American life, he...
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age"If you're interested in how to live a life without regret, you will not want to miss Wanderlust." -- Jon Gertner, author of The Ice at the End of the WorldThe mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest...
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Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to IraqGuerrilla warfare is not just the tool of modern-day terrorists in the Middle East. Its roots stretch back to our very own revolution.In Violent Politics, William R. Polk takes us on a concise, brilliant tour of insurgencies throughout history, beginning with America's own struggle...
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Unveiled: Inside Iran's #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt"Unveiled vividly portrays the unwavering resilience and courage of the Iranian people in the face of the regime's repression. It is no longer a question of 'If' a new Iran will emerge but 'When.'" -Nazenin Ansari, publisher and managing editor, Kayhan LondonIn September 2022,...
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Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet: D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money, a Graphic NovelAn ALA Top Ten Best Graphic Novel for ChildrenA thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the U.S.CASE NO. 001: NORJAK NOVEMBER 24, 1971 PORTLAND, OREGON2:00 P.M. A man...
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Union With GodJeanne Guyon was born in south-central France in the mid-1600s. Her writings and her ministry knew a brief period of popularity, making her a friend even of the wife of Louis XIV. She greatly influenced the life of Fenelon, one of the two most...
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates"This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read."--Patrick O'Brian "[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected."--Men's Journal This rollicking account of...
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here--And Out There"One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded." --The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history) comes...
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Two World Wars and Hitler: Who Was Responsible?: Anglo-American Money, Foreign Agents and GeopoliticsA radical re-interpretation of events between 1914 and 1945, this book is a scholarly revision of the history of Nazi Germany that is sure to open the eyes of many thus far reluctant to face the truth. Deeply researched, well-sourced, evidence relates the true...
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Turning the Soil 250 Years of Vermont AgricultureRoger Allbee has a deep-rooted connection to Vermont's agricultural history. Growing up on a hilltop farm in a rural town, Roger witnessed the strength and persistence of his family, who has farmed the land since 1794. Turning the Soil explores great turning points in...
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Tornado Terror (I Survived True Stories #3): Volume 3From the author of the New York Times bestselling I Survived series, comes two gripping accounts of two young people who survived two terrifying twisters.The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was the deadliest tornado strike in American history, tearing through three states and killing 700...
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To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of CommunismFrom an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was not. While Russia may no longer be Communist, Communism and...
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To Die with Such Men: Frontline Stories from Ukraine's International LegionThis book is Black Hawk Down meets Enemy at the Gates meets Band of Brothers, and it's all true. It's about what happens when Western politicians carelessly assume we're living the 'end of history'--until the Great Game comes back, uglier and more callous than...
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Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica RevoltA radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms...
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Time's Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World WarA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR - WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS - Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction - A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory...
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWS From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World...
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They Never Threw Anything Away, Memories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived ItThey Never Threw Anything AwayMemories of the Great Depression by Americans Who Lived ItThe parallels to the present are ominous: an international pandemic killing nearly 700,000 Americans, followed by a booming stock markets and political turmoil....then years of unimaginable misery for so many -...
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