Mitch Albom

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 20th Anniversary Edition

Book's ISBN also used for previous editions and printings.

Tuesdays with Morrie

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Mary Doria Russell

A Novel

Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling to survive.

A Thread of Grace

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Lesley Poling-Kempes

Women Who Opened the West

Shares the experiences of the women who left home to work at the Fred Harvey restaurants along the route of the Atchison, Topeka, & Sante Fe Railway

The Harvey Girls

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Amy Dockser Marcus

Amy Marcus

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

No issue of the last half century has had more far-ranging political, social, and religious repercussions than the conflict over Israel. A new generation of scholars has taken the conflict investigation further back in time to the Ottoman period.

Jerusalem 1913

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Ian Wilson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Revisiting the Most Famous Crime Scene in History

Crime Scene Golgotha approaches Jesus's crucifiction from the perspecitive of a crime scene investigator: What do we know is fact? What can be historically documented? What can we deduce may have happened? Taking the popular CSI television dramas as inspiration, Crime Scene Golgotha is a direct reaction to Mel Gibson's much talked about movie The Passion of the Christ. Ian Wilson systematically outlines what is known for sure about Jesus's trial and crucifixion, as well as where art and the movies have gone astray. His investigatory methods include eyewitness testimony (that of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), archeology, medical and forensic findings, and history, which systematically describe the most famous murder in history.

Murder at Golgotha

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Nathaniel Philbrick

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

America's Voyage of Discovery, the U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

Draws on journal entries to recount the epic journey of Charles Wilkes and the Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, which led to the discovery of Antarctica and brought America international renown for its endeavors.

Sea of Glory

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The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

From the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard "With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed--at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port bow. . ." In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex--an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history. In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the survivors clung to life as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear. In the Heart of the Sea tells perhaps the greatest sea story ever. Philbrick interweaves his account of this extraordinary ordeal of ordinary men with a wealth of whale lore and with a brilliantly detailed portrait of the lost, unique community of Nantucket whalers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, the book delivers the ultimate portrait of man against nature, drawing on a remarkable range of archival and modern sources, including a long-lost account by the ship's cabin boy. At once a literary companion and a page-turner that speaks to the same issues of class, race, and man's relationship to nature that permeate the works of Melville, In the Heart of the Sea will endure as a vital work of American history.

In the Heart of the Sea

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Allan Massie

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Blending history and fiction, the author presents the memoirs of Emperor Augustus and reveals a complex leader capable of great cruelty and deceit, but also possessing forbearance and humanity

Augustus

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David Sacks

Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z

From the A of The Scarlet Letter to the Z of Zorro, this is a fascinating work that unlocks the mystery behind each letter in the alphabet. Illustrations.

Language Visible

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Joshua Zeitz

A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

Examining the lives of Lois Long, Coco Chanel, Zelda Fitzgerald, Clara Bow, and other Jazz Age luminaries, a social history traces the evolution of the new woman of the 1920s and the making of modern culture.

Flapper

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Jeff Chang

D. J. Kool Herc

A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, Hip Hop has been a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era transformed by deindustrialisation and globalisation, Hip Hop became a job-making engine and forever transformed politics and culture. Based on more than a decade of original interviews with DJs, b-boys, graffitti writers, gang members and rappers, and featuring unforgettable portraits of many of Hip Hop's forbears and mavericks, this book chronicles the rise and rise of this movement through vivid cultural criticism and detailed narrative.

Can't Stop Won't Stop

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Iain Gately

A Cultural History of Alcohol

In the tradition of wildly popular histories such as Salt, an intoxicating tour of the cause ofand solution toall of lifes problems: alcohol Alcohol is a fundamental part of western culture and an essential element of Christianity. It is the most controversial part of our diet, simultaneously nourishing and intoxicating. We have been drinking as long as we have been human, and for better or worse, alcohol has shaped our civilization. Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankinds love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day. Along the way it scrutinizes the drinking habits of presidents, prophets, and barbarian hordes, and features drinkers as diverse as Homer, Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, Al Capone, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Drink further documents the contribution of alcohol to the birth and growth of the United States, taking in the War of Independence, the Pennsylvania Whiskey revolt, the slave trade, and the failed experiment of national Prohibition. Finally, it provides a history of the worlds most famous drinksand the worlds most famous drinkers. Enthusiasts of craft brews and fine wines will discover the origins of their favorite tipples. Packed with trivia and colorful characters, Drink amounts to a sloshed history of the world: Better make it a double.

Drink

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Geoffrey Hindley

A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons

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Diana Loevy

A Comprehensive Guide to the Reading Group Experience

Booksellers know very well how ubiquitous the reading group has become, and The Book Club Companion is full of innovative ideas designed to entertain their members and enrich the book club experience. Inside, club members will find:

- The 10 Indispensable Titles across several literary genres including Beloved Lit, Brit Lit, Book Club Favorites, Classic Lit, Black Lit, Noir Lit, Literary Respite, Nonfiction that Reads Like Fiction, and Memoir
- Childhood favorites
- "Guilty pleasure" titles
- Conversation starters and tips for keeping discussions lively
- Theme gatherings and special places for meetings
- Drink and food recipes
- Craft ideas
- And much more

The Book Club Companion

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Doug Meckelson

Diane Haithman

Seniors Across America Offer Advice to the Next Generations

"Embodying the adage "age is wisdom," the Elder Wisdom Circle is a group of volunteer senior citizens nationwide who offer sage advice for life's big and small moments"--Page 4 of cover.

The Elder Wisdom Circle Guide for a Meaningful Life

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Danny Danziger

Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A celebration of the role of people in operating and sustaining the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents interviews with fifty-two people, from its security guards and cleaners to its philanthropist supporters and famous patrons.

Museum

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Nadia’s Song

Mary Wallace

An inuksuk is a stone structure that can communicate knowledge essential for survival to an Arctic traveler. Inuksuit are found throughout the Arctic areas of Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Greenland. Mary Wallace, in consultation with Inuit elders and other noted experts, gives a fascinating introduction in words, pictures, and paintings to the many forms of the inuksuk structure and its unique place in Inuit life and culture. Inuksuit take on many forms, the most recognized being the inunnguaq ('like a person'), which is built in the shape of a human. Mary Wallace explains ten of the major types of inuksuit, while archival photographs and exquisite silk paintings bring these shapes to life. In telling the story of inuksuit, the story of those who dwell in the Arctic unfolds. A guide to Inuktitut words rounds out this comprehensive guide to the inuksuk.

The Inuksuk Book

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Shirley Hughes

With her trademark simple verses and charmingly realistic illustrations, Shirley Hughes pays a visit to a lovable brother-sister pair that little readers everywhere will recognize. Coloring pictures together, creating a playhouse under the table - Annie Rose spends a lot of time with her big brother, Alfie. Whether the two of them are depicted splashing in the rain or following footprints in the snow, sailing a toy boat or watching clothes dance around in the dryer, Shirley Hughes's quiet rhymes and slice-of-life images offer snippets of the familiar moments that make up a preschooler's world - and an endearing ode to sibling and family bonds.

Rhymes for Annie Rose

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George Littlechild

This Land Is My Land

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Brett Harvey

Going West in the 1860s

A young girl relates the hardships and dangers of traveling with her family in a covered wagon from Illinois to California during the 1860's.

Cassie's Journey

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Shelley Tanaka

Earthquake! - On a Peaceful Spring Morning, Disaster Strikes San Francisco

A Day That Changed America

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Claudia M. Lee

The Messengers of Rain - And Other Poems from Latin America

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Kevin Major

Seventeen-year-old Ann Harvey is one of the great unsung heroes of maritime history. In 1828, off the Newfoundland fishing village of Isle aux Morts, Ann Harvey, her father and younger brother, came upon the wreck of the Despatch, an Irish immigrant ship originally destined for Quebec City. In thick fog and fierce wind it had run aground. Ann's courage and strength at the oars of the rescue boat were largely responsible for saving more than 160 dirt-poor passengers stranded amid the raging storm, left "like seabirds clinging to the rocks." Ann's courageous feat along the isolated south coast of Newfoundland has been all but forgotten.

Ann and Seamus brings the remarkable story of Ann Harvey to today's readers. In a poetic and powerful retelling, Kevin Major portrays the shy young woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances. It is the story of dramatic rescue, but it is also the story of dreams and fate, of a hard life and young love. For also at its center is Seamus, a young Irishman who had set sail with hopes of a new life in America. Ann and Seamus is historical fiction that sweeps across ages and nationalities. In rich yet accessible narrative verse, it draws the reader into the drama of sea rescue without losing the tender and impetuous voices of youth at the core of the story.

Ann and Seamus

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Yahaira Turner

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A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons

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Danny Danziger

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Mary Wallace

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Claudia M. Lee

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