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  • Beyond the Miracle Worker

    The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller

    After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a straightforward educational superhero, the real story of this brilliant, complex, and misunderstood woman, who described herself as a "badly constructed human ... Read more

    Was $25.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Silent Service

    Submarine Warfare from World War II to the Present?An Illustrated and Oral History

    by Philip Kaplan ...
    See the secret and dangerous world of submarine life and warfare like never before.From the ingenious but impractical designs of seventeenth-century inventors through the nuclear-powered submarines of today, this heavily illustrated volume traces the history of the silent force and the elite corps of men who fought and often died beneath the waves. Though fully describing the development of the ... Read more

    Was $29.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Marble Range

    A Western Story

    A mysterious stranger struggles to keep his past a secret and himself out of harm’s way in this thrilling Western tale!Bob Bannister is a mystery from the moment he arrives in Prairie City. A gambler with a knack for winning at the stud poker table, he quickly aligns himself with a young man named Howard Marble after saving his life and helps to pay off Howard’s gambling debts. Marble is connected ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • How to Hide an Empire

    A History of the Greater United States

    Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneA Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff PickA pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empireWe are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • The Worst Hard Time

    The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

    by Timothy Egan ...
    In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Isaac's Storm

    A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

    by Erik Larson ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review**September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • Murder the Truth

    Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

    by David Enrich ...
    New York Times Bestseller"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America.” — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenDavid Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the ... ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • The Mission

    The CIA in the 21st Century

    by Tim Weiner ...
    "No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win Weiner a second Pulitzer." —The GuardianA masterpiece of reporting based on-the-record interviews with six former CIA directors, the top spymaster, thirteen station chiefs, and scores of top operations officers: The Mission is a gripping and revelatory history of the modern CIA, reaching from 9/11 through its ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Legacy of Ashes

    The History of the CIA

    by Tim Weiner ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • With shocking revelations that made headlines all across the country, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it, and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.*"*For anyone interested in the CIA or ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Fight

    Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER"Brutal." —Huffington Post"Scathing." —New York Post"[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." —Politico“So many revelations.” —Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe"Bombshell." —Jesse Watters, host of FOX’s Jesse W... ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Mayflower

    A Story of Courage, Community, and War

    **"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--**The New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History**New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the YearWith a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.**How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and V.. ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Drift

    The Unmooring of American Military Power

    by Rachel Maddow ...
    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 such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • JFK: Public, Private, Secret

    **NAMED ONE OF AMAZON EDITORS' BEST BOOKS OF JULY!From the New York Times bestselling Kennedy historian and author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret comes the other side of the story****—**her husband’s: JFK: Public, Private, Secret.In this definitive portrait of John Fitzgerald Kennedy—one of America’s most consequential and enigmatic presidents—J. Randy Taraborrelli delivers a deeply researched ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • My Dear Hamilton

    A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

    USA Today Bestseller"An edge-of my sear immersion into historical events...No study of Alexander Hamilton would be complete without reading this book." —Karen White, New York Times bestselling author"The best book of the year!" —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkWife, Widow, and Warrior in Alexander Hamilton’s quest for a more perfect union<... ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America's Boy

    A Memoir

    by Wade Rouse ...
    “A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us” by the bestselling author of Magic Season (The Washington Post).Indie Next List “Great Read” SelectionAmerican Library Association’s Inaugural “Rainbow List” SelectionIn this memoir, writer and journalist Wade Rouse delivers a humorous and heartwarming account of his Midwestern ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1941: Fighting the Shadow War

    A Divided America in a World at War

    by Marc Wortman ...
    “A wide-ranging examination of America’s entry into World War II.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, A Divided America in a World at War, historian Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America’s clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor.Prior to that infamous day, America had long been involved in a shadow war. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homestand

    Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America

    **A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America—written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in Batavia, New York."Bardenwerper finds hope in the people and community around a former minor league ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Son of the Morning Star

    Custer and The Little Bighorn

    Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Connell.Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • When the Night Comes Falling

    A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

    by Howard Blum ...
    Instant New York Times Bestseller“Compelling. . . . Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.”—Kirkus Reviews"The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from acclaimed bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.Timed for a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • America, América

    A New History of the New World

    by Greg Grandin ...
    **A New York Times bestseller“An extraordinarily ambitious book . . . America, América reads at times as the historical equivalent of the great epic novels of Gabriel García Márquez.” —Irish TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both* ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award****The definitive history of nuclear weapons—**from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Civil War: A Narrative

    Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

    by Shelby Foote ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote’s epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel.Includes maps throughout ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Une race d'étrangers

    Le récit méconnu des Franco-Américains

    Entre 1840 et 1930, près d'un million de Canadiens français traversent la frontière pour s'installer aux États-Unis à la recherche de travail et d'un avenir meilleur. Certains ont vu dans l'arrivée de ces masses d'immigrants un prétendu complot catholique visant à bouleverser l'Amérique. David Vermette replace ces Franco-Américains dans le contexte des enjeux contemporains: l'essor et la chute de ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Football For A Buck

    The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

    by Jeff Pearlman ...
    From Jeff Pearlman—the New York Times best-selling author of Three Ring Circus—comes the rollicking, outrageous story of the USFL, full of larger-than-life characters and you-can’t-make-this-up stories featuring some of the biggest celebrities and buffoons in the game.The United States Football League—known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL—did not merely challenge the NFL, but cause ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD