Category - History
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Zora Neale Hurston on Florida Food: Recipes, Remedies & Simple Pleasures
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Eatonville, Florida native Zora Neale Hurston's early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Fl...
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Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his ...
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Old Burnside
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In the early years of this century, Burnside, Kentucky, was a bustling community perched on and above the floodplain formed by the Cumberland Riv...
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Where I Was From
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Ba...
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Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's "Black and White Dance" in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, ...
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Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A tall but telescopic-sight-true tale of Hunter Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, Tom McGuane, and a large cavorting cast running around with sand in the...
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Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp Through History
Board BookOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through History, combines Twain's own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at ...
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Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNERA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's ...
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller--from William Wordsworth and Mary Wol...
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Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life. In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publish...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 5
PaperbackOriginal price $11.00 - Original price $11.00Original price $11.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Life on the Mississippi, Part 5, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preser...
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live--and to create--with courage and conviction took them as fa...
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Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined ...
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A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Born in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member o...
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Homage to Catalonia
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spani...
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Survival in Auschwitz
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi's experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The ...
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Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist...
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Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /By any measure, Seneca (?4-65AD) is one of the most significant figures in both Roman literature and ancient philosophy. His writings are voluminou...
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Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalization John Milton (1608-1674) h...
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Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investiga...
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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the far-reaching implications her service had on her ...
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Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him today. 2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of ...
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Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"An enthralling and insightful cultural history--one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love g...
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious dea...
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