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A Train near Magdeburg (the Young Adult Adaptation): The Holocaust, the Survivors, and the American Soldiers Who Saved Them - Paperback

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by Matthew a. Rozell (Author)--ABRIDGED EDITION of the True Story of the Rescue of a Holocaust Death Train in World War II-- SUITABLE FOR Grades 9-12 and BeyondAS A YOUNG TEEN living a comfortable life with family, what do you do when the Germans march into your town to persecute you, and your neighbors and your friends turn their backs? As life turns upside-down and you are now a young prisoner--fighting for survival in a concentration camp and FORCED TO BOARD A DEATH TRAIN to nowhere--how d...

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes - Paperback

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by Zachary D. Carter (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An "outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit" (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas "A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes."--The Wall Street Journal WINNER: The Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal - The Hillman Prize for B...

A Train near Magdeburg (the Young Adult Adaptation): The Holocaust, the Survivors, and the American Soldiers Who Saved Them - Hardcover

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Food Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of Our Edible World - Paperback

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by Julia Rothman (Author), Rachel Wharton (With)Get your recommended daily allowance of facts and fun with Food Anatomy, the third book in Julia Rothman's best-selling Anatomy series. She starts with an illustrated history of food and ends with a global tour of street eats. Along the way, Rothman serves up a hilarious primer on short-order egg lingo and a mouthwatering menu of how people around the planet serve fried potatoes -- and what we dip them in. Award-winning food journalist Rachel Wh...

A Train Near Magdeburg: A Teacher's Journey into the Holocaust, and the reuniting of the survivors and liberators, 70 years on - Hardcover

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by Matthew Rozell (Author)What do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your own mother looks like? As a combat soldier fighting your way across Europe, what is the plan when you come across a Holocaust train full of suffering humanity that shocks you to your core, even after you think you have seen it all? And what happens when you get to meet the survivors face to face, two generations later? 'After I got ...

The King James Study Bible, Bonded Leather, Brown, Full-Color Edition - Bonded Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)The full text of the classic King James Version with robust study notes, vibrant full-color images, and dozens of study resources to help you grow deeper in your faith. Published in large easy-to-read print type. Standing apart from all other KJV study Bibles on the market, The King James Study Bible, Full Color Edition is the only Bible featuring over half-a-million words of commentary, doctrinal notes, archaeological insights, and time-tested study aids developed ex...

The King James Study Bible, Genuine Leather, Black, Full-Color Edition - Leather

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by Émile Zola (Author), Helen Constantine (Author), Patrick McGuinness (Author)'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of François Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with François, his wife Marthe, and their three children, and Marthe quickly falls under the influence of the priest. Ambitious and unscrupulous, Faujas gradually infiltrates into all quarters of...

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt - Paperback

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by Ian Shaw (Editor)The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Egyptians' prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans, this book resurrects a fascinating society replete with remarkable historical information. It investigates such subjects as the changing nature of life and death in the Nile valley to some of the earliest masterpieces of art, architecture, and lite...

Birds & Other Animals: With Pablo Picasso - Board Book

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by Phaidon Editors (Author), Meagan Bennett (Designed by)A groundbreaking study of animals through the rarely seen sketches by legendary artist Pablo PicassoThe masterful drawings of Pablo Picasso teach animal recognition to the youngest readers in this artful, read-aloud board book. Birds & Other Animals takes children through Picasso's series of single-line animal drawings, beginning and ending with various kinds of birds.Pablo Picasso was one of the twentieth century's most influential...

Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations--And Take Over Our Lives - Hardcover

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by J. W. Ocker (Author)"A must-read for those with a taste for cult narratives."--Publishers WeeklyFrom the author of Cursed Objects and The United States of Cryptids, an eye-popping compendium of the 30 most infamous, audacious, and dangerous cults in history Have you ever wondered how ordinary people end up enmeshed in extreme cults? Everything you've ever wanted to know about history's most notorious cults--and the psychology of the people who join them--is packed into this accessible, eng...

Kennedy Conspiracy: Over 370 shocking facts proving the existence of a conspiracy behind the fatal assassination attempt on President John - Paperback

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by Andrea Larsen (Author)An incredible essay by writer Andrea Larsen, former author of the historical volume "Simo Häyhä, The White Death: The Incredible True Story of the Deadliest Sniper Ever," devoted to the tragic end of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and to so many obscure points of the affair, never before addressed in such detail. A thorough, detailed research work, a sequence of facts, documents, and testimonies that paint a hallucinating picture behind ...

Cat Family at the Museum: A Lift-The-Flap Book with Over 140 Flaps - Hardcover

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by Eunyoung Seo (Illustrator), Lucy Brownridge (Author)"The Cat Family... are truly in a league of their own in the lift-the-flap category." - Fairytales and Fingerpaints Join the Cat Family on a day out to the museum and discover the secrets behind artifacts from around the world and throughout history in this beautiful lift-the-flap book with 140 doors to open. Wander through the museum and gaze up at masterpieces, roar at sabre-toothed tigers, and marvel at enormous dinosaurs in this mag...

100 First Words for Little New Yorkers - Board Book

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by Ashley McPhee (Author), Patrick Gray (Illustrator)We've got pizza rats and bodega cats. We'll grab a slice or some bagel and schmear, but don't even think about calling a "taxi." Fuhgeddaboudit! A true New Yorker knows it's a "cab"! Yerrr! Introducing 100 First Words for Little New Yorkers, a state primer for kids learning their first words! Forget apple and dog. Little New Yorkers are ready to move from ABC to MTA and other New York-specific words like borough, hero, and egg cream (if you...

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates - Paperback

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by David Cordingly (Author)"This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read."--Patrick O'Brian " A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected."--Men's Journal This rollicking account of the golden age of piracy is packed with vivid history and high seas adventure. David Cordingly, an acclaimed expert on pirates, reveals the spellbinding truth behind the legends of...

The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy - Paperback

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by Marifeli Perez-Stable (Author)This timely and provocative study provides a reexamination of the Cuban revolution and places it firmly in a historical context. Beginning with the inauguration of the republic in 1902 and addressing Castro's triumphant entry into Santiago de Cuba in 1959, The Cuban Revolution highlights the factors that made Cuba susceptible to revolution, including its one-crop (sugar) economy and U.S. interference in Cuban affairs. While identifying radical nationalism--the...

Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation - Paperback

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by Charles H. Stocking (Author), Susan A. Stephens (Author)The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ideologies of ancient athletics. The sources in...

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization - Hardcover

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by Yuval Noah Harari (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution--when humans fell into a trap we've yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns.What if humanity's major woes--war, plague, famine and inequality--originated 12,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens converted from nomads to settlers, in pursuit of the fant...

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by Melanie Mitchell (Author)What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior can emerge from s...

Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel - Paperback

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by Kate Bowler (Author)How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and Wealth, Name It and Claim It, or simply prosperity gospel come to dominate much of our contemporary religious landscape? Kate Bowler's Blessed is the first book to fully explore the origins, unifying themes, and major figures of a burgeoning movement that now claims million...

Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family - Paperback

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by Mai Elliott (Author)A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through an era of tumultuous change. She tells us of childhood hours in her grandmother's silk shop, and o...

Tennessee Whiskey: How the Volunteer State Became the Center of the Whiskey Renaissance - Hardcover

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by Carlo DeVito (Author)Tennessee Whiskey is devoted entirely to the quintessential whiskeys of Tennessee.There is no questioning that Tennessee has a rich whiskey history. With a whiskey tradition surviving both the Civil War and prohibition, Tennessee proved early on that it would be a major player in the industry. But how did the Volunteer State become the center of the whiskey renaissance? In Tennessee Whiskey, spirits expert Carlo DeVito investigates the innovative and legendary whiskey ...

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Paperback

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by Ibram X. Kendi (Author)The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In...

KJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)The Thomas Nelson KJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.The classic King James Version, one of the most influential and beautiful works of art in the English language, continues to be the standard translation for numerous churches and millions of Christians. T...

Polish Customs, Traditions & Folklore - Paperback

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by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab (Author)"A richly detailed and well-informed month-by-month accountingof all the major Polish customs and traditions practiced over the centuries.Ms. Knab stirs and reawakens our ancestral memory." ―The Kosciuszko Foundation Newsletter Now in a paperback edition with illustrations, historical blackand white photographs, and color photographs throughout the book! Thisunique, well-researched reference is arranged by month, showing the variousoccasions, feasts and holid...

LBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail - Paperback

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by Peter L. W. Osnos (Author)"In this book, I have sought to blend personal experience, journalism, and scholarship. It is history written by a journalist who was there."-Peter L. W. OsnosLBJ and McNamara: The Vietnam Partnership Destined to Fail details how President Lyndon B. Johnson and his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, made choices central to U.S. strategy in Vietnam, ending in defeat. The portrait emerges of men who knew that conventional victory was impossible but who could not...

Brothers in Arms: A True World War II Story of Wojtek the Bear and the Soldiers Who Loved Him - Hardcover

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by Susan Hood (Author), Jamie Green (Illustrator)Brothers in Arms is the remarkable true story of an orphaned bear cub who grew into a World War ll hero alongside his brothers in arms from award-winning author Susan Hood and star illustrator Jamie Green. Perfect for fans of Finding Winnie. Wojtek was just an orphaned bear cub (yes, an actual wild bear!) when a group of teenaged Polish soldiers, many of whom were orphans themselves, took him into their ranks during World War ll. Wojtek quickly...

Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet: D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money, a Graphic Novel - Paperback

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by Tom Sullivan (Author), Tom Sullivan (Illustrator)An ALA Top Ten Best Graphic Novel for ChildrenA thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the U.S.CASE NO. 001: NORJAK NOVEMBER 24, 1971 PORTLAND, OREGON2:00 P.M. A man in his mid-forties, wearing a suit and overcoat, buys a ticket for Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 bound for Seattle.3:07 P.M. The man presents his demands:...

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by Editors of Caterpillar Books (Author), Lindsey Sagar (Illustrator)1...2...3...4 Let's rock and roll, babies 2019 National Parenting Product Award Winner From Elvis Presley to Beatlemania, from Janis Joplin to David Bowie--rock has transformed through generations while ringing true with passionate sound. Rock along with the greats in this delightful baby book that introduces little ones to the rockers that started it all Parental Advisory: May cause toddlers to play the air guitar with a...

The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God - Paperback

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by Fulton Sheen (Author), Andrew Apostoli (Author)With his characteristic eloquence and brilliance, Fulton J. Sheen presents a moving portrayal of the Blessed Virgin Mary that combines deep spirituality with history, philosophy and theology. All the major aspects and events of Mary's life are lovingly portrayed in this word portrait that is a never failing source of information, consolation and inspiration. Sheen also gives profound insights into all the Marian beliefs ranging from the Immacu...

Southern Cunning: Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South - Paperback

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by Aaron Oberon (Author)Southern Cunning is a journey through the folklore of the American South and a look at the power these stories hold for modern witches. Through the lens of folklore, animism, and bioregionalism the book shows how to bring rituals in folklore into the modern day and presents a uniquely American approach to witchcraft born out of the land and practical application.Author BiographyAaron Oberon is a Southern folk witch with a passion for bringing witchcraft to people from ...

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made - Paperback

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by Walter Isaacson (Author), Evan Thomas (Author)With a new introduction by the authors, this is the classic account of the American statesmen who rebuilt the world after the catastrophe of World War II. A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces six close friends who shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dr...