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Zealot
Zealot
Written by Reza Aslan
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400069224
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Zealot
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $27.00

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From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
 
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee... Read more >
Empty Mansions
Empty Mansions
Written by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345545565
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Empty Mansions
The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Written by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.


Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $12.99

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When Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century... Read more >
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Empty Mansions
Empty Mansions
Written by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345534521
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Empty Mansions
The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Written by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.


Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2013
Price: $28.00

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

When Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century... Read more >
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Catastrophe 1914
Catastrophe 1914
Written by Max Hastings
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307597052
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Catastrophe 1914
Europe Goes to War
Written by Max Hastings


Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
On Sale: September 24, 2013
Price: $35.00

From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.

In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict...

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Zealot
Zealot
Written by Reza Aslan
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780679603535
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Zealot
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Written by Reza Aslan


Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: July 16, 2013
Price: $12.99

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
 
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee... Read more >
Unbroken
Unbroken
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400064168
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Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Written by Laura Hillenbrand


Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $28.00

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.  Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.  It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who... Read more >
Lawrence in Arabia
Lawrence in Arabia
Written by Scott Anderson
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385532921
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Lawrence in Arabia
War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Written by Scott Anderson


Format: Hardcover, 592 pages
On Sale: August 6, 2013
Price: $28.95

A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East
      
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, “a sideshow...

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Unbroken
Unbroken
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
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ISBN: 9780679603757
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Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Written by Laura Hillenbrand


Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $12.99

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.  Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.  It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who... Read more >
The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780375725609
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The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Written by Erik Larson


Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $16.00

Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of...

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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning
Written by Viktor Frankl, Afterword by William J. Winslade, Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780807014295
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Man's Search for Meaning

Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner


Format: Paperback, 184 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $8.99

With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner
and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including... Read more >
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