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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.) by Laurence Bergreen Publisher Comments In 1519, Magellan, five ships, and more than two hundred men set sail from Spain to find a water route to the Spice Islands. Despite suffering starvation, disease, torture, and death, they discovered the passageway known today as the Strait of Magellan... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman Publisher Comments Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.) by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever recorded and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History on Trial : My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier (05 Edition) by Deborah E. Lipstadt Publisher Comments In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal (P.S.) by Deborah Cadbury Publisher Comments A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.) by John Kelly Publisher Comments La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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I Didn't Do It for You, P. S. Edition (05 Edition) by Wrong Publisher Comments Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District (P.S.) by Louise Brown Publisher Comments The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust (P.S.) by Josip Novakovich Publisher Comments Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever. Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the New York Times for writing fiction that has "the crackle... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung Publisher Comments One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream (P.S.) by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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