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Friedrich (70 Edition) by Hans P. Richter Publisher Comments The tragic story of a Jewish boy in Germany during the 1930s, this award-winning novel is "superb, sensitive, honest, and compelling" ("The New York Times").... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity... (read more) List Price $23.00 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: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Review Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Harvest Book #0244: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt Publisher Comments Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff Staff Pick I'm rather sure that all three of Stacy Schiff's previous works have been nominated for some award or another. With a pedigree like that, you know that her latest biography is bound to be a must-read. Stripping away all the previous misconceptions about... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (The Definitive Edition) by Anne Frank Publisher Comments The basis for and official tie-in edition to the PBS Masterpiece Classic movie titled The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Jon Jones from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach. First airing April 11, 2010. More than fifty years after its first publication... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Lynn Averywhis Hunt Publisher Comments This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights.... (read more) List Price $19.90 Your price: $4.95 Used - 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Publisher Comments Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shawl (Vintage International) by Cynthia Ozick Publisher Comments A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives of those who passed through it.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Postwar : History of Europe Since 1945 (05 Edition) by Tony Judt Staff Pick Postwar is a fascinating account of European history between 1945 and 2005. Tony Judt masterfully weaves together a narrative of a time in world history that is as complicated as it is immediately relevant to the world we live in today.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Staff Pick A gritty, funny, and widely influential novel (it caused quite a stir!) that I guarantee you'll read time and time again. Powerful and worthy of many re-readings.... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heroes of the Greeks (78 Edition) by C. Kerenyi Synopsis This study uses original sources, archaeological findings and psychological insight to provide an account of the lives of mythical figures - Achilles, Orpheus, Herakles, Oedipus and others. The narrative is complemented by illustrations from vase... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Abridged (00 Edition) by Edward Gibbon Publisher Comments New abridged edition, with critical introduction, chronology and biographical index. Based on the original three volume Penguin edition.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Army : Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (91 Edition) by Omer Bartov Publisher Comments As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Closing of the Western Mind (02 Edition) by Charles Freeman Publisher Comments A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantines adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western civilization. When the Emperor Contstantine converted to... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H Nicholas Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Later Roman Empire : A.D. 354-378 (86 Edition) by Ammianus Marcellinus Synopsis A fourth-century army officer recounts the history of Rome during the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian and Valens.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome's most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all time. Cicero comes to life in these pages and takes center... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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