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The Barbary Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First Overseas Wars Conducted by the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Discover the captivating history of the first American wars in Africa!In this book, you'll learn about the Barbary Wars of 1801 to 1805 and 1815, t...
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Against All Tides: The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engag...
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Hear Our Voices: A Powerful Retelling of the British Empire Through 20 True Stories
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This compelling and important history of the British Empire, told from the perspective of 20 people who lived through it, tells the story of one of...
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Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Contested Valor is a challenging examination of the use and status of black Marines in United States military service during the Cold War era. Thes...
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Insurgency Warfare: A Global History to the Present
PaperbackOriginal price $44.00 - Original price $44.00Original price $44.00$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /This timely book offers a history of insurgencies and counterinsurgency beyond a traditional Western-centric narrative. Black probes the linkages b...
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Joy, to the World
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A young Dumplin' meets Melissa in this joyful and energetic middle grade novel about a twelve-year-old girl living her life to the fullest, celebra...
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The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein pro...
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January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878-1879
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Historian Jerome A. Greene is renowned for his memorable chronicles of egregious events involving American Indians and the U.S. military, includ...
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Sitti's Secrets
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Mona's grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her. The couldn't spea...
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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tell...
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Sitti's Secrets
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance. Mona's grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other si...
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Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The “riveting” (John Wukovits, author of Admiral “Bull” Halsey) and all-but-unknown account of ten American prisoners of war who escaped from a J...
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Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who...
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /New York Times Bestseller The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back th...
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Air Apaches: The True Story of the 345th Bomb Group and Its Low, Fast, and Deadly Missions in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The American 345th Bomb Group—the Air Apaches—was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to th...
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The Fierce 44: Black Americans Who Shook Up the World
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A dynamic collective biography that presents 44 of America’s greatest Black movers and shakers, from Frederick Douglass to Aretha Franklin to Bar...
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My Name Is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders an...
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A is for Aloha: A Hawai'i Alphabet
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Completing our acclaimed Discover America State by State series is A is for Aloha: AHawaii Alphabet. The landscape of Hawaii is as exotic as its ...
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It is Important to Become...
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This book tells a story about the hidden world of racial disparities and the history from which they stem. The kids who encounter negative experien...
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The Clothesline Code: The Story of Civil War Spies Lucy Ann and Dabney Walker
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Lucy Ann and Dabney Walker didn't have to risk their lives to spy for the Union army. The couple had already risked everything to escape slavery th...
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The Clothesline Code: The Story of Civil War Spies Lucy Ann and Dabney Walker
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Lucy Ann and Dabney Walker didn't have to risk their lives to spy for the Union army. The couple had already risked everything to escape slavery t...
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Adventures in Ana Park
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Where can you go to grill half-smokes, captain pirate ships, shoot hoops, feed ducks, and watch the sun set magnificently over the river? Welcome t...
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The Little River That Wouldn't Run Straight: A Child's Story of the San Antonio River
HardcoverOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This book is an imaginative telling of the history of the San Antonio River, intended to capture the interest of small children, rather than a sobe...
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My Mothers Wildest Dreams
HardcoverOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Many Ancestors were responsible for bringing us into the world. My Mothers Wildest Dreams honors the Mothers responsible for bringing Mister John h...
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