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Drift
Drift
Written by Rachel Maddow
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307460998
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Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Written by Rachel Maddow


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $15.00

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.

Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at... Read more >
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Written by Katherine Boo
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781400067558
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Written by Katherine Boo


Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $27.00

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl
Written by Anne Frank, Translated by B.M. Mooyaart, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780553296983
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The Diary of a Young Girl

Written by Anne Frank
Translated by B.M. Mooyaart
Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt


Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1993
Price: $5.99

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 occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her... Read more >
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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City
Written by Erik Larson
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781400076314
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The Devil in the White City
A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
Written by Erik Larson


Format: eBook
On Sale: February 10, 2004
Price: $9.99

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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1491 (Second Edition)
1491 (Second Edition)
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400032051
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1491 (Second Edition)
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann


Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.95

In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
 
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of...

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Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge
Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge
Written by Lindy Woodhead
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780812985047
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Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge

Written by Lindy Woodhead


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $16.00

If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge’s.

Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field’s in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn of the twentieth century... Read more >
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Forgotten Sacrifice: The Arctic Convoys of World War II

Written by Michael Walling


Format: eBook, 292 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $9.95

Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin’s Soviet Russia with critical equipment and foodstuffs during the darkest days of the German invasion.

The words "Murmansk Run" conjure visions of ice-laden ships and thoughts of freezing to death in...

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Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2013 Edition
Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2013 Edition
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307944894
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Cracking the AP European History Exam, 2013 Edition

Written by Princeton Review


Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $18.99

If you need to know it, it’s in this book. Cracking the AP European History, 2013 Edition includes: 

   • 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations
   • Comprehensive review of all test topics, including the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, the French Revolution, postwar Europe, and more
   • Timelines, keywords, and review questions in... Read more >
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Man's Search for Meaning

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


Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $14.00

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 Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the... Read more >
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In the Garden of Beasts
In the Garden of Beasts
Written by Erik Larson
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307887955
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In the Garden of Beasts
Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Written by Erik Larson


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $11.99

“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review
  
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during... Read more >
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