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Noel Malcolm
Kosovo: A Short History – An Essential Chronicle of the Balkans, Ethnic Tensions, and Political Independence
"Malcolm's narrative is gripping, even brilliant at times. . . . He takes to his task with the vigor of a detective driven by true passion. At times his claims are, in terms of Balkan history,quite revolutionary." "What could have been mere academic hairsplitting in the hands of another author is tr...
$12.99
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John L. Moore
Skunks, Nuts, and Other Stories: A Chronicle Culled from the Oral Histories of the Moore/Evans Clan
As a boy delivering newspapers after school, author John L. Moore once found a copy of Playboy magazine on the grass beside the sidewalk. In “Skunks, Nuts, and Other Stories,” he details the dilemma that picking up the magazine created for him. Moore’s collection of two dozen yarns told by and...
$9.99
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Vladimir Nabokov
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.   It is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, par...
$17.77
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore Collection 3 Books Set (The Romanovs 1613-1918, Stalin The Court of the Red Tsar, Jerusalem The Biography)
The Romanovs: 1613-1918: This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadow...
$69.99
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Charles Gusewelle
The Rufus Chronicle: Another Autumn
He was not just one family's pet or one man's companion in the field. For nearly 13 years, from earliest puppyhood, the bird dog Rufus was a recurring character in C.W. Gusewelle's thrice-weekly column in the Kansas City Star. Rufus' triumphs were celebrated, his escapades and misdemeanors recorded....
$19.51
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C. Erhardt
Wild Rogue Wilderness- Where Water Carves a Memory and Wind Carries a Song: A Series of Oregon National Wilderness Books
To the wild heart of the Rogue, a place that demands respect and rewards with unparalleled beauty. May its canyons echo with the calls of its native creatures, its rivers run clear and strong, and its ancient forests stand as silent sentinels for generations to come. This book is a tribute to the sp...
$10.25
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Ronald A. & Joel Bosco & Myerson
Emerson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, F
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was one of the seminal figures in American intellectual history, literature and culture. In his time he was the acknowledged leader of the Trascendentalist movement; his poetic legacy stretches from Walt Whitman to Allen Ginsberg; his educational ideals have been embr...
$29.00
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Skriuwer.com
The History of Athens: From Myth to Modern Freedoms (Greek History Books)
Did you know Athenian voters banished heroes by scratching names on pottery shards... and philosophers drank hemlock for asking questions? From Mycenaean warlords sacrificing virgins on the Acropolis to Socrates' fatal sip of poison , this explosive chronicle reveals how Western civilization's ...
$15.99
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Jay-Z
Decoded: Written by Jay Z, 2010 Edition, Publisher: Virgin Books [Hardcover]
Updated with 3 new songs, this is the intimate, first-person chronicle of the life and work of Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter in Brooklyn's notorious Marcy Projects, now known to many as the greatest rapper alive.Told through lyrics, images and personal narrative, Decoded shares the story of Jay-Z's life ...
$48.00
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Juan Alberto Cedillo Guerrero
La masacre de Allende / The Allende Massacre: Crónica de un crimen de Estado / Chronicle of a State Crime (Spanish Edition)
Esta obra investiga y documenta una de las peores masacres que se ha perpetrado en México en los últimos an~os. Después de diversos gobiernos estatales en Coahuila y federales en México, quienes intentaron por todos los medios tergiversar los hechos y ocultarlos a la opinión pública, por prime...
$25.00
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Bland Simpson
The Inner Islands: A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina's inner coast. In each of the fifteen chapters in the book, Simpson covers a single island or group of islands, many of which, were it ...
$79.00
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Ellis Peters
The Devil's Novice: The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, Book 8)
[Read by Vanessa Benjamin] Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, what troubles Brother Cadfael is a proud, secretive nineteen-year-old novice. Broth...
$24.85
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Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Story of Christianity, The: A Chronicle of Christian Civilization From Ancient Rome to Today
Sumptuously illustrated with hundreds of gorgeous photographs, artifacts, and maps, The Story of Christianity focuses on the rich social and cultural history of Christianity through the ages, from its roots in Palestine to its triumph as a global movement, told through a series of dramatic turning...
$27.99
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Gary Rivlin
AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence – A Definitive Insider Chronicle of the Breakthroughs
A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work. Artificial Intelligence has been “just around the corner” for decades, continually disappointin...
$14.72
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Allan R. Ellenberger
Anita Page: A Career Chronicle and Biography
Anita Page (1910-2008) first captured attention near the end of the silent film era in such classics as While the City Sleeps (1928) with Lon Chaney, The Flying Fleet (1929) with Ramon Novarro, and her own favorite, Our Dancing Daughters (1928) with Joan Crawford. In a relatively short career,...
$36.27
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David L. Ulin
The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time
Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance ...
$15.49
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Loree Griffin Burns
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
Without honey bees the world would be a different place. There would be no honey, no beeswax for candles, and, worst of all, barely a fruit, nut, or vegetable to eat. So imagine beekeeper Dave Hackenburg’s horror when he discovered twenty million of his charges had vanished. Those missing bees bec...
$33.90
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Neale Donald Walsch
Conversations with God, Books 2 & 3: An Uncommon Dialogue
Neale Donald Walsch didn't claim to be special or spiritually gifted. He was just a frustrated man who sat down one day with pen in his hand and some tough questions in his heart. As he wrote his questions to God, he realized that God was answering them--directly--through Walsch's pen. And the resul...
$40.77
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Diodorus Siculus
Library of History, Volume XI: Books 21–32
Remains of a universal chronicle. Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80–20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander’s death (323 BC); ...
$30.00
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Elizabeth Hardwick
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)
The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an ima...
$20.69
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