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To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana Publisher Comments During the mid 19th century the US Senate entertained a bill to expand South and annex Cuba, to become not only a Caribbean empire but the greatest slaveholding nation in history. The 1860 publication of To Cuba and Back detailing, in Dana's words, .the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis & Athos by Kari Maund Publisher Comments The Three Musketeers, first published in 1844, is an abiding classic. It has been translated into many languages, repeatedly filmed, and its heroesDArtagnan, Porthos, Aramis, and Athoshave become literary archetypes. Yet, outside France, few... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923 by Caroline Finkel Publisher Comments The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly Publisher Comments A magisterial account of the worst disasters to strike humankind—the Great Irish Potato Famine—conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality Deeply researched, compelling in its details, and... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Marnissi Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan Publisher Comments “Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one mans extraordinary quest to reunite lost Nepalese children with their parents.”—Neil White, author... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Staff Pick From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara by Andrew Sinclair Publisher Comments These features, which are fully complemented with posters, intimate photographs and other ephemera, will ensure that this is an essential purchase for anyone interested in this enduring icon, and the legacy he left behind.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright Publisher Comments Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia — the country where she was born — the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Struggle for Iran by Christ De Bellaigue Publisher Comments When Christopher de Bellaigue first visited Iran in 1999, he found it irresistably alive: under the leadership of President Mohammad Khatami, Islamic revolutionary rule was loosening and the prospects for democratic pluralism seemed bright. But over the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments Greg Mortenson, the bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea, is a man who has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, and he’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. But, as Jon Krakauer... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, andlt;Iandgt;Wild Swansandlt;/Iandgt; has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Yellow Wind: With a New Afterword by the Author by David Grossman Publisher Comments The Israeli novelist David Grossmans impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987—not only the misery of the Palestinian refugees and their deep-seated hatred of the Israelis but also the cost of occupation for both... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nations history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Knights: In History and Legend by Constance Bouchard Publisher Comments The most comprehensive book on knights and knighthood available. The word knight conjures up images of gallant men in gleaming armor astride noble steeds, searching for foes to fight and fair maidens to rescue. In Knights the reality of knighthood is... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion. Maria Misra by Maria Misra Publisher Comments As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world's most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Publisher Comments Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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