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  • Devil's Gate

    Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

    by David Roberts ...
    The little-known story of a deadly 1,300-mile trek by Mormon converts in 1856: “This compelling account of a major frontier catastrophe is hard to put down.” —BooklistIn 1856, led by the church’s second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, the Mormon faithful headed west to escape persecution. They arrived in what is now Utah the following year and established a new Zion in the wilderness. Nine ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania

    Series series Pennsylvania History
    In her concise history Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania, Beverly Tomek corrects the long-held notion that slavery in the North was “not so bad” as, or somehow “more humane” than, in the South due to the presence of abolitionists. While the Quaker presence focused on moral and practical opposition to bondage, slavery was ubiquitous. Nevertheless, Pennsylvania was the first state to pass an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Triumph of Christianity

    How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

    New York Times Bestseller: A “marvelous” account of how the tiny sect of Christianity rapidly became the dominant religion in the West (Reza Aslan, New York Times–bestselling author of Zealot).How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire become the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

    The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Tom Paine

    A Political Life

    by John Keane ...
    “It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superseded . . . It is a stylish, splendidly erudite work.” —Terry Eagleton, The Guardian“More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world.” So begins John Keane’s magnificent and award-winning (the Fraunces Tavern Book Award) biography of one of democracy ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conflict Is Not Abuse

    Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

    We’ve published five of Sarah’s novels, including Rat Bohemia, one of the “100 Best LGBT Novels of All Time” (Publishing Triangle); this is her first non-fiction book with Arsenal but she is a highly respected essayist and speaker on a wide range of political and social issues.A book on the cultural phenomenon of blame, cruelty, and scapegoating as a power tactic in a range of relationships, from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

    “In 1864, the nation was riveted by a society divorce trial that had everything: cheating, wealth, feuding brothers and lurid details Weisberg’s sensitive examination reconstructs the trial while giving dimension to the real-life people involved.”—The New York Times Book Review “Editors Choice”Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Autobiography

    An Only Child and My Father's Son

    Frank O’Connor’s acclaimed autobiography, now in one volumeWhen Frank O’Connor was born, his parents—Minnie O’Connor, a former maid raised in an orphanage, and Michael O’Donovan, a veteran of the Boer War and the drummer in a local brass-and-reed band—lived above a sweet-and-tobacco shop in Cork, Ireland. The young family soon moved, however, to a two-room cottage at the top of Blarney Street, a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 鹰从笕桥起飞

    by 孙昌建 ...
    本书从杭州笕桥中央航空学校旧址开始,探求抗日战争时期中国空军鏖战长空的历史、“八一四”空战的细节与谜团,调查航校学员的背景往事和战后经历,报道“笕二代”的寻亲,再现一代飞鹰勇士的心路历程与民族情怀。 ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spies

    The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

    “This important new book . . . based on archival material . . . shows the huge extent of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 20th century” (The Telegraph).Based on KGB archives that have never been previously released, this stunning book provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ty Cobb

    A Terrible Beauty

    The New York Times–bestselling, award-winning biography of the baseball superstar: “The best work ever written on this American sports legend.” —The Boston GlobeTy Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player ever. His lifetime batting average is still the highest in history, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Book of Margery Kempe

    by Margery Kempe ...
    Translated by Barry Windeatt ...
    A remarkable medieval woman's life and the earliest surviving autobiography in English, now updated with new materialThe story of the eventful life of Margery Kempe - medieval wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Downtown

    Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950

    Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: “Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience.” —BooklistWritten by one of this country’s foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown—and the way Americans thought about downtown—changed over time. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hawai'i One Summer

    Essays on the island and its history and traditions from the National Book Award–winning author of The Woman Warrior.In these eleven thought-provoking pieces, acclaimed writer and feminist Maxine Hong Kingston tells stories of Hawai’i filled with both personal experience and wider perspective.From a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and numerous other honors, the essays in this collection ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The True Story Of Anthony Albanese

    politics

    by DEEONE PRESS ...
    Dive into the captivating world of Australian politics with 'The True Story of Anthony Albanese.' Uncover the untold journey of resilience, leadership, and love that propels Australia's Prime Minister beyond the political podium. From humble beginnings to the corridors of power, this meticulously crafted biography unveils the man behind the policies, providing an intimate portrait that goes beyond ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel

    by Simon Schama ...
    “Simon Schama has re-examined the role of Baron Edmond de Rothschild [1845-1934] and his son James [1878-1957] in the Jewish settlement of Palestine... He refutes Herzl’s charge that the colonies were a ‘rich man’s pastime to while away what would otherwise have been idle hours’ by illustrating how Baron Edmond’s immediate concern in 1882 for the sanctuary of Eastern European pogrom victims was, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Serving the Nation

    Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907

    by Julie L. Reed ...
    Series Book 14 - New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called social welfare—based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated for the social good, was at the heart of this system. Serving the Nation explores the role of such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lincoln On Leadership: Executive Strategies For Tough Times

    Only ten days before Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office in 1861 the Confederate States of America seceded from the Union taking Federal agencies forts and arsenals within their territory. To make matters worse Lincoln who was elected by a plurality of the popular vote was viewed by his own advisors as nothing more than a gawky second-rate country lawyer with no leadership experience. What ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • When Chicago Ruled Baseball

    The Cubs-White Sox World Series of 1906

    In 1906 the baseball world saw something that had never been done. Two teams from the same city squared off against each other in a World Series that pitted the heavily favored Cubs of the National League against the hardscrabble American League champion White Sox. Now, more than a century later, noted historian Bernard A. Weisberger tells the tale of a unique time in baseball, a unique time in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Epic Mexico

    A History from Its Earliest Times

    Spanning the full breadth of Mexico’s long and storied past in one compact volume, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history, at once comprehensive, succinct, and consistently engaging. The book’s story reaches from the days of the saber-tooth tiger to those of its perhaps more dangerous modern counterpart, the narco-trafficker; and from the time of the Olmec and the Aztec ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Refuge and Resistance

    Palestinians and the International Refugee System

    by Anne Irfan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that became central to the lives of displaced people around the world. This regime has exerted particular authority over Palestinian refugees, who are served by a specialized UN body, the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Formed shortly after the 1948 war, UNRWA continues to provide quasi-state services such ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

    **“[A] deeply researched and counterintuitive history . . . Penningroth reframes the conventional story of civil rights.” —Matthew F. Delmont, Washington PostA prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.**The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system ... Read more

    $22.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young

    Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

    New York Times Bestseller: A “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read” (Col. David Hackworth, author of About Face).In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What It Means to Miss New Orleans

    In two short essays and one long piece of reportage, author and screenwriter Mark Childress ("Crazy in Alabama," "One Mississippi," "Georgia Bottoms") explores New Orleans before, during, and after Katrina. Essays: "What It Means to Miss New Orleans" originally appeared in the New York Times, "Disaster Tourism" in Salon magazine, and "The Tragic City Laughs" in The Birmingham News. All proceeds go ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus