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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Cover Image

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Hardcover)

By Erik Larson
$32.00
ISBN: 9780385348713
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Published: Crown - February 25th, 2020
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island Cover Image

Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island (Paperback)

By Earl Swift
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062661401
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Published: Dey Street Books - February 18th, 2020
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II Cover Image

D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II (Paperback)

By Sarah Rose
$18.00
ISBN: 9780451495099
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Published: Crown - March 17th, 2020
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Cover Image

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Paperback)

By Daniel Immerwahr
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250251091
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Published: Picador - March 3rd, 2020
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race Cover Image

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (Paperback)

By Douglas Brinkley
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062655073
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Published: Harper Perennial - April 14th, 2020
The Trial of Lizzie Borden Cover Image

The Trial of Lizzie Borden (Paperback)

By Cara Robertson
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501168390
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Published: Simon & Schuster - March 10th, 2020
John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial Cover Image

John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial (Hardcover)

By David Fisher, Dan Abrams
$28.99
ISBN: 9781335015921
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Published: Hanover Square Press - March 3rd, 2020
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History Cover Image

Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History (Paperback)

By Peter Houlahan
$17.95
ISBN: 9781640093881
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Published: Counterpoint LLC - June 2nd, 2020
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America Cover Image

El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America (Paperback)

By Carrie Gibson
$20.00
ISBN: 9780802148360
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Published: Grove Press - February 18th, 2020
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Cover Image

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Paperback)

By Henry Louis Gates
$20.00
ISBN: 9780525559559
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Published: Penguin Books - April 7th, 2020
Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon Cover Image

Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon (Hardcover)

By Eric H. Cline
$35.00
ISBN: 9780691166322
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Published: Princeton University Press - March 17th, 2020
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine Cover Image

Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine (Paperback)

By Barry Strauss
$18.00
ISBN: 9781451668841
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Published: Simon & Schuster - March 3rd, 2020
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Cover Image

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)

By Jenny Odell
$26.99
ISBN: 9781612197494
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Published: Melville House - April 9th, 2019
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs Cover Image

Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs (Hardcover)

By Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593083390
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Published: Viking - May 12th, 2020
The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed Cover Image

The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed (Hardcover)

By Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250317476
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Published: Flatiron Books - May 5th, 2020
The German Heiress: A Novel Cover Image

The German Heiress: A Novel (Paperback)

By Anika Scott
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062937728
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - April 7th, 2020
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America Cover Image

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America (Hardcover)

By Sarah Kendzior
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250210715
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Published: Flatiron Books - April 7th, 2020
The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers Cover Image

The Last Book on the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History’s Most Notorious Serial Killers (Hardcover)

By Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, Tom Neely (Illustrator)
$26.00
ISBN: 9781328566317
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - April 7th, 2020
The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship Cover Image

The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship (Hardcover)

By Greg King, Penny Wilson
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250194534
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Published: St. Martin's Press - April 7th, 2020
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell Cover Image

Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Hardcover)

By Tom Clavin
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250214584
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Published: St. Martin's Press - April 21st, 2020
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt Cover Image

Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Hardcover)

By Steven Johnson
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735211605
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Published: Riverhead Books - May 12th, 2020
Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason Cover Image

Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason (Hardcover)

By Dave Rubin
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593084298
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Published: Sentinel - April 28th, 2020
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy Cover Image

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)

By Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324005148
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 5th, 2020