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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum Publisher Comments A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten era. In early twentieth-century New York, poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Science had no... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 by Barrett Tillman Publisher Comments WHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan—the most important strategic bombing campaign inhistory. From the audacious Doolittle raid in 1942 to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Audacity to Win: How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin by David Plouffe Publisher Comments The inside story of a brilliant campaign, with lessons on how the Democrats can secure victory in the future. Since David Plouffe helped design the plan that brought candidate Obama to the White House, the lessons of that plan have become only more... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J Ellis Publisher Comments A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx. "The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir *** I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart Publisher Comments New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Escape from Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War by John D Lukacs Publisher Comments One of the greatest Pacific war stories never told. On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escape from one of Japan's most notorious prison camps. Called the "greatest story of the war in the Pacific... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--And a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted Gup Publisher Comments andquot;A wonderful reminder that economic hardship can bring suffering but can also foster compassion and community.andquot; -The Boston Globe In hard economic times like these, readers will find bestselling author Ted Gup's unique book uplifting as... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments < P> The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up& ndash; to& ndash; date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay Publisher Comments In this strikingly original and groundbreaking book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow Publisher Comments The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as brilliantly researched and written, the book... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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White House Diary by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments A New York Times Bestseller Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter kept a private diary. In it, he supplied unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, and narrated the progress of secret negotiations; he recorded... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century by Glenn Beck Publisher Comments Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine’s famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New York Times bestseller Glenn Beck’s Common Sense. Now he brings his historical acumen and political savvy to this fresh, new interpretation of The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dancing with the Devil: Confessions of an Undercover Agent by Louis Diaz and Neal Hirschfeld Publisher Comments Growing up in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where physical violence was a daily reality at home, at school, and on the streets, Louis Diaz had what it took to survive — and to one day become what he vowed to be: a man of uncompromising principles who is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb Publisher Comments This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten. A young artillery lieutenant,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future by Nader Hashemi Publisher Comments A definitive collection of essays and documents on the movement behind Iran's mass protests Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series of mass... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol Publisher Comments Beginning in 1935, in a series of devastating decisions, the Supreme Court"s conservative majority left much of FDR"s agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal, but democracy itself, that stood on... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W Dower Publisher Comments Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove Publisher Comments st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } “A richly detailed, heavily documented, but eminently readable account of the men who led the Revolution, wrote the Constitution and persuaded the citizens of the thirteen original states to adopt it.”&... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo Publisher Comments From Missouri to New York and back again, this recounting of an amazing journey chronicles the road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a low profile. Diners, bellhops, and cabbies shouted out “Hiya... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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