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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939--1945 by Catherine Merridale Publisher Comments A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources. Of the thirty million who fought, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky Powells.com Staff Pick I like salt. When I was younger and less self-conscious about eating a chip made from a potato paste, I used to lick each side of a Pringle until I found the saltier one, and put that side tongue-down so I could get the maximum salt intake. Salt is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel by Tony Cohan Publisher Comments We walk the dimly lit town, along its Moorish walls of roseate hues. In the small, thronged central plaza, we sit on an iron bench gazing up at a quirky dripcastle church, its spires embedded in full complement of stars. Drop it, something whispers. Just... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt Powells.com Staff Pick Once again John Berendt proves he is a powerful magnet for eccentrics. With clever proficiency, Berendt depicts for readers a host of quirky characters, providing an exclusive glimpse into the Venice you won't see as a tourist. Gossipy yet wholly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford Publisher Comments The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissanceincest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Thunderstruck by Erik Larson Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable follow-up to his hit thriller Devil in the White City, Erik Larson applies his considerable skill to craft a story of invention and murder. A tightly written page-turner. Recommended by Michal, Powells... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala Ofaolain Publisher Comments Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in World History on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C Fishman Publisher Comments China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $22.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez Publisher Comments Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills– as doctors, nurses, and therapists– seemed... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Motorcycle Diaries (Movie Tie-In) by Ernesto Che Guevara Publisher Comments Special movie tie-in edition of Che Guevara's youthful travel diaries to coincide with the Fall release of Redford and Salles's film of the book. Says director Walter Salles: "If the film reaches a younger audience, I hope it will inspire people to read... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments "I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Powells.com Staff Pick I just finished rereading We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families because after reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning I thought that the atrocities committed in Rwanda might make more sense to me. There are eerie... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott Publisher Comments A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs. Robyn Scott's story of moving at the age of seven to Botswana with her adventure... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Red Azalea by Anchee Min Publisher Comments Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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