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The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 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 $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado Publisher Comments In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Publisher Comments In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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True North: A Memoir by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed — and beloved — bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments The forces of history and the exceptional talents of this young writer combine to produce a work of nonfiction with the breadth and drama of the richest, most memorable fiction classics. Wild Swans is a landmark book, with the intimacy of memoir and the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir Publisher Comments "A SURPRISINGLY FRESH AND TREMENDOUSLY THOROUGH CONTRIBUTION to the debate...Weir's book is, no doubt, not the last on this subject, but it might be the best....[She] constructs a devastating case...[and] brilliantly illuminates the nature of late... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Peace To End All Peace : the Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (89 Edition) by David Fromkin From Powells.com In a famous line toward the end of David Lean's magnificent Lawrence of Arabia, Prince Faisal tells Lawrence, "Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men, courage and hope for the future. Then, old men make... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang Publisher Comments Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him — this is the most authoritative life of Mao... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Lion-Winston Spenser Churchill: Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester Publisher Comments The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. Two 8-page photos... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mein Kampf (43 Edition) by Adolf Hitler Publisher Comments In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway Publisher Comments One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman. The Road From Coorain is about Everywoman, for it is about childhood loneliness, anguished parent-child relationships, dawning sensibility... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I reigned prosperously for more than forty years, from 1558 until her death in 1603. During her rule, however, she remained an extremely private person, keeping her own... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Agricola: And the Germania by Cornelius Tacitus and Harold B. Mattingly and S. A. Hanford Publisher Comments Detailed historical accounts of the British Isles ("Agricola") and the virtues of the Germans ("Germania").... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Staff Pick Che Guevara's face can seem ubiquitous these days. Knowing very little about him, I decided to pick up this rather hefty biography by Jon Lee Anderson. I was planning on scanning the 832-page book for the highlights, but after only twenty pages I was... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: ... and Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason Publisher Comments Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason's many revelations, you'll learn that Communist jets were two... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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