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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller Publisher Comments The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher Comments A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K Roach Publisher Comments Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn't have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments In this New York Times bestseller, the author of Assassination Vacation "brings the [Puritan] era wickedly to life" (Washington Post). To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Sarah Vowell investigates what that means — and what... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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1493 How Europes Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade Ecology & Life on Earth by Charles C Mann Publisher Comments From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Columbus in the Americas by William Least Heat-Moon Publisher Comments A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy "They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (08 Edition) by Washington Irving Publisher Comments Among the first and best-loved tales by an American writer, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" marked the entry of Irving into world literature. This modestly priced anthology also includes such well-known works as "The... (read more) Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer. Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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50 Shades Trilogy #01: Cincuenta Sombras de Grey = Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James Publisher Comments Me miro en el espejo y frunzo el ceño, frustrada. Qué asco de pelo. No hay manera con él. Y maldita sea Katherine Kavanagh, que se ha puesto enferma y me ha metido en este lío. Tendría que estar estudiando para los ex... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship by Klaus Brinkbaumer Publisher Comments Of all the great seafaring vessels of the Age of Discovery, not one has been recovered or evengiven the lack of detailed contemporary descriptionsaccurately represented. Then, in the mid-1990s, a sunken ship was found in a small, shallow gulf... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Conquest of America by Tzvetan Todorov Publisher Comments The Discovery of America My subject - the discovery self makes of the other- is so enormous that any general formulation soon ramifies into countless categories and directions. We can discover the other in ourselves, realize we are not a homogeneous... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beacon Falls (Images of America) by Mark Heiss Publisher Comments On September 7, 1693, in exchange for 10 pounds and a barrel of cider, a former Indian slave named Toby was given a tract of land that became much of present-day Beacon Falls. Included was the scenic valley north of town, where in 1876 the Naugatuck... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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National Geographic Secrets of the National Parks: The Experts' Guide to the Best Experiences Beyond the Tourist Trail by National Geographic Publisher Comments Find the best National Geographic picks in 32 amazing national parks including Yellowstone's Lamar Valley, the Everglades' Nine Mile Pond Canoe Trail, and Yosemite's exquisite Snow Creek Trail. Discover that Lamar Valley is home to many of the park's... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony by Lee Miller Publisher Comments In November of 1587, a report reached London claiming Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to land English settlers in America had foundered. The colony on Roanoke Island off of the coast of North Carolina-115 men, women, and children-had disappeared without... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Columbus and the age of discovery by Zvi Dor Ner Book News Annotation A lavishly illustrated (with some 240 color and 96 b&w illustrations, photos, charts, and maps) complement to the PBS documentary of the same name, which, however, stands by itself as a thoughtful contribution to the literature of the Columbus... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Making Haste From Babylon by Nick Bunker Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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