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Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England - Paperback

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by John Putnam Demos (Author)In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and upd...

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by Pekka Hamalainen (Author)From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire "Cutting-edge revisionist western history."--Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books "A landmark study that will make readers see the history of southwestern America in an entirely new way."--David J. Weber, author of Bárbaros In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely conteste...

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle - Hardcover

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by Shannen Dee Williams (Author)In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams demonstrates how master narratives of women's religious life and Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are taken s...

Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America - Hardcover

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by Lewis A. Grossman (Author)A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States that presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution through the Trump Era. Throughout American history, lawmakers have limited the range of treatments available to patients, often with the backing of the medical establishment. The country's history is also, however...

One More for the Road: A Director's Notes on Exile, Family, and Film - Paperback

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by Rajko Grlic (Author) Recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlic in the form of a lexicon of film terms tied to anecdotes spanning Grlic's life. "I read a lot this year. Old, new, borrowed, blue. This was the best. The paradox of reading something so avidly that you can't put it down and then I got to the last 20 pages slowing down to a snail's pace and reading so slowly so that it wouldn't be over so quickly."--Mike Downey, European Film Academy From his post-Nazi-era...

The Twentieth Century: A World History - Paperback

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by R. Keith Schoppa (Author)Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth century -- with its revolutionary discoveries, technological inventions, political upheaval, and scientific advances, radical transformation touched virtually every arena of life. In The Twentieth Century: A World History, R. Keith Schoppa uses a global lens spanning Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the A...

The Side-By-Side Declaration of Independence: With Side-By-Side Plain English Translations, Plus Definitions and More! - Hardcover

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by David Miles (Author)"An absolute necessity for anyone looking for a kid-friendly history book."--Time for Kids, Kid Reporter"This engaging and surprisingly entertaining effort seems like the perfect choice to accompany and expand lesson plans. A hardworking addition to U.S. history shelves."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred)"This book introduces students to the Declaration in an informative and well-rounded manner. They are not just told what the document says but asked to think about it and quest...

The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained - Paperback

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by Colin Dickey (Author)America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a "thought-provoking and delicoiusly unsettling" (Publisher's Weekly) tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational--in fringe--is on the rise: from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster, the list goes on. It seems the more our maps of the known...

Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide - Paperback

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by Robert Michael Pyle (Author)One of America's most esteemed natural history writers takes to the hills of the Pacific Northwest in search of Bigfoot--and finds the wildness within ourselves. "A unique book in the bigfoot literature . . . that understands what most lifetime bigfooters eventually come to know: that bigfooting is about the journey more than the destination." --Cliff Barackman, field researcher and star of Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to inve...

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio - Hardcover

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by Derf Backderf (Author)Named a "Best Book of the Year" by New York Times, Forbes, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and NPR! An Eisner Award Winner An ALA/YALSA Alex Award Winner Ringo Award for Best Non-Fiction Comic Work France's Association of Comics Critics and Journalists (ACBD) Comics Prize From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the tragic and unforgettable story of the Kent State shootings, told in graphic novel form. Backderf takes us back to ...

Gustav Klimt. the Complete Paintings - Hardcover

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by Tobias G. Natter (Author)A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative art historical commentary and privileged access to the artist's archive. With top quality illustration, including new photography of the celebrated Stoclet Frieze, the book follows Klimt through his prominent role in the Secessionist...

100 Cars That Changed the World: The Designs, Engines, and Technologies That Drive Our Imaginations - Hardcover

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by Publications International Ltd (Author), Auto Editors of Consumer Guide (Author)100 Cars That Changed the World showcases vehicles from the end of the nineteenth century to 2020. Cars are showcased with brief text, color photography, and vintage black and white photography. Vehicles included: The Ford Model T that put America on wheels. The Volkswagen Beetle that was loved around the world. The Jeep that helped win World War II and popularized off-road adventure. The Pontiac GTO that lau...

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by Annie Ernaux (Author), Alison L. Strayer (Translator)WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeConsidered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008 The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present--even projections into the future--photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of ...

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea - Paperback

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by Jack E. Davis (Author)Hailed as a "nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester's Atlantic" (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis's The Gulf is "by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of 'America's Sea' " (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America's political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Davis demonstrates how the G...

The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy - Leather

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by Sun Tzu (Author), Lao-Tzu (Author), Confucius (Author)The words of the ancient Chinese sages are as timeless as they are wise. IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner 2017! The words of ancient Chinese philosophers have influenced other thinkers across the world for more than 2,000 years, and continue to shape our ideas today. The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy includes translations of Sun Tzu's Art of War, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, the teachings of the master sage Co...

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains - Hardcover

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by Alexa Hagerty (Author)New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Absorbing . . . multifaceted and elegiac . . . Still Life with Bones captures the ethos that drives the search--often tireless and against the odds--for truth...

Alamo All-Stars (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #6): A Texas Tale - Hardcover

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by Nathan Hale (Author)New York Times Bestselling Series! "These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . .Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history." --New York Times Learn the thrilling true story of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo with the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series! "Remember the Alamo!" That rallying cry has gone down in Texas history. But what, exactly, should we remember? Who were the ragtag group of adventurers behind the fam...

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by Joe Sacco (Author), Christopher Hitchens (Introduction by)Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim-hel...

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by Markus Zusak (Author)This anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook. "Life-changing." --The New York Times When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich...

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by Corrie Ten Boom (Author), Elizabeth Sherrill (Author), John Sherrill (Author)In this special youth edition, Corrie ten Boom's remarkable story of heroism and faith inspires a new generation of readers with its timeless message.Back JacketThe True Story of a Real-Life HeroIt's World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe as the Nazis spread hatred, fear and war across the globe. But on a quiet city corner in the Netherlands, one woman fights against the darkness. In her quiet watchmaking s...

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by David Halberstam (Author)The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along ...

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition - Paperback

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by Anne Frank (Author), Otto M. Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor)THE DEFINITIVE EDITION - Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic--a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary's first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize-winner Nadia Murad "The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ....

Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday - Paperback

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by Mary Pope Osborne (Author), Natalie Pope Boyce (Author), Sal Murdocca (Illustrator)Learn the true story of Thanksgiving with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time, Magic Tree House Track the facts with Jack and Annie in this nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday, they had lots of questions. What was it like to sail on the Mayflower? Why did th...

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition - Hardcover

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by Anne Frank (Author), Susan Massotty (Translator), Otto H. Frank (Editor)The diary as Anne Frank wrote it: "The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ... remains astonishing and excruciating" (The New York Times Book Review). In a modern translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents o...

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela - Paperback

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by Nelson Mandela (Author)The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the first democratically elected president of South Africa, Mandela began his autobiography during the course of his 27 years in prison "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it." - President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an internatio...

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by Janet Catherine Berlo (Author), Ruth B. Phillips (Author)This lively introductory survey of indigenous North American arts from ancient times to the present explores both the shared themes and imagery found across the continent and the distinctive traditions of each region. Focusing on the richness of artwork created in the US and Canada, Native North American Art, Second Edition, discusses 3,000 years of architecture, wood and rock carvings, basketry, dance masks, clothing and more. The e...

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by Pliny the Younger (Author), P. G. Walsh (Translator)In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part autobiography, part social history, they document the career and interests of a senator and leading imperial official whose friends include the historians Tacitus and Suetonius. Pliny's letters cover a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political...

I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir - Paperback

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by Esther Safran Foer (Author) NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST - "Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written."--The Washington Post "Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America's leading literary family, an eloquent defender of the proposition that memory matters. And now, a riveting memoirist."--Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Es...

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by John James Audubon (Author), David Allen Sibley (Introduction by)The celebrated and highly valued natural history classic, now fully reproduced for the 1st time with an introduction by world-renowned ornithologist David Allen Sibley Featuring 435 stunning images of Audubon's original watercolors, this is the perfect addition to any bird lover's library First published in installments between 1827 and 1838, John James Audubon's treasured collection of life-sized watercolors of North America...

We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance (Scholastic Focus) - Hardcover

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by Deborah Hopkinson (Author)Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson unearths the heroic stories of Jewish survivors from different countries so that we may never forget the past.Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at middle-grade and young adult readers. These books help readers learn about the world in which they live and develop their critical thinking skills so that they may become ...

A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler - Hardcover

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by Lynell George (Author)A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and "MacArthur Genius" Octavia E. Butler. It is a collection of ideas about how to look, listen, breathe--how to be in the world. This book is about the creative process, but not on the page; its canvas is much larger. Author Lynell George not only engages the world that shaped Octavia E. Butler, she a...

Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War - Paperback

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by Tim Bouverie (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER - A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II "An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects on possible lessons for the present."--Antonia Fraser, author of Mary Queen of Scots On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitle...