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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 $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi Publisher Comments In the tradition of John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, Douglas Preston weaves a captivating account of crime and punishment in the lush hills of Florence, Italy. Douglas Preston fulfilled... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East throughwars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures) by David Grann Staff Pick Grann's riveting book, The Lost City of Z, delves into the intrepid life and mysterious disappearance of legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett. Armchair travelers will be whisked away to the Amazon on a wild ride with a surprising finish.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl Publisher Comments When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the thirty-three years since then, this book — at once a memoir, a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments In the waning days of Venices glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the citys oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) by Malika Oufkir Publisher Comments The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell Publisher Comments A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire:... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes Publisher Comments From a beloved former NPR reporter comes a news-breaking eyewitness account of how the U.S. government and armed forces allowed, and even abetted, the tragic return to violent warlordism in Afghanistan following the defeat of the Taliban.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments Fraser's definitive biography excites compassion and regard for all aspects of her subject, immersing the reader not only in the coming-of-age of a graceful woman, but also in the unraveling of an era. 60 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir by Arif Jamal Publisher Comments A definitive history of the Kashmiri conflict by one of Pakistan's leading reporters For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody wars in the region, but the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Publisher Comments From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.69 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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