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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

Dan Jones · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.

For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side,...
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Hitler: A Biography

Peter Longerich · Oxford University Press
Pages: 1344
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimes

Acclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography....
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

Garrett M. Graff · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"This is history at its most immediate and moving ... A marvelous and memorable book." - Jon Meacham

"Remarkable ... A priceless civic gift ... On page after page, a reader will encounter words that startle, or make him angry, or heartbroken."...
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Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells As Prophet for Our Time

Catherine Meeks · Church Pub Inc
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

"In Passionate for Justice, we find a compass that points us to the future, where we can each give voice and action to justice, equity, and life-giving community. Ida Wells would have had it no other way." --From the foreword by Stacey Abrams, 2018 Democratic Nominee for Governor...
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

Richard Bell · 37 Ink
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South - and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught.

Philadelphia, 1825:...
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