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...
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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...
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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
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...
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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
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...
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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...
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