Consumer Guide: Book Prices

Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated the Republic of Rwanda. Although the killing was low-tech--performed largely by machete--it was carried out at dazzling speed: of an original population of ... Read more

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$5.00 - $23.00

George C. Herring - From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776

The author of America's Longest War uses foreign relations as a lens through which to tell the story of America's rise from thirteen colonies to the world's greatest superpower, in a volume that documents America's interaction with other peoples and nations of the world. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$17.00 - $25.00

Dexter Filkins - The Forever War

Journalist Dexter Filkins provides a long view of the conflict with Islamofascism, before and after 9/11. Filkins reports on the rise of the Taliban in the '90s, the attacks of September 11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and their aftermath. He covers a great deal of territory, reporting fr... Read more

Stores Selling: 12

$5.00 - $20.00

Helene Cooper - The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood

Born into Liberia's privileged upper class, Helene Cooper's family were the descendants of the freed American slaves who first turned Liberia into a country. Her life took a drastic change in 1980 when Liberia plunged into a long and bloody civil war. Her family's possessions were seized, her mother... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$4.64 - $10.80

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

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$5.24 - $11.48

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Traces the history of the Hemings family from its origins in early eighteenth-century Virginia to its dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826, in an account that describes their family ties to the third president. Reprint. A best-selling National Book Award winner and New York Times and Publisher... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$12.00 - $14.00

Ariel Sabar - My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Ariel Sabar grew up ashamed of his idiosyncratic father, Yona, a Kurdish Jew from a tiny Iraqi village. Impelled by a mid-life desire to understand him, Sabar investigates the lost world in which his father grew up, retracing the family's expulsion from Iraq, their abysmal period in Israel, and thei... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$12.00 - $16.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$20.00 - $25.00

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$13.00 - $18.00

Daniel Walker Howe - What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

A panoramic history of the United States ranges from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War and chronicles the dramatic changes that took place in America during the period, interweaving political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history to addre... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$17.00 - $25.00

Tim Jeal - Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

We think of Stanley as a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo--and the journalist who conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" But these perc... Read more

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$6.00 - $25.00

Daniel Mendelsohn - The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Noted critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn never knew his uncle Shmiel, who died in the Holocaust, but family members who did never forgot him, and they spoke about him to Daniel, who was moved enough to begin a search to learn of the fate of his uncle, his uncle's wife, and their four daughters.... Read more

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$5.27 - $12.95

Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States.... Read more

Stores Selling: 2

$11.00 - $13.00

Fred Anderson - Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

Demonstrating that the decisive "Seven Years' War" changed the balance of power between the British and French in North America, the author argues that this conflict destroyed the delicate balance of power that gave Native people a voice in the affairs of the continent while creating an &q... Read more

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$14.00 - $15.00

Lynn H. Nicholas - The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

An account of the fate of Europe's great works of art in the Third Reich and the Second World War. Nicholas traces the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate attempts to preserve it. Covering the Nazi purges of 'degenerate' art, Goerings's shopping sprees in occupied Paris, ... Read more

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$10.00 - $12.00

Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach

Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$13.00 - $25.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$36.00 - $42.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$27.00 - $33.00

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$18.00 - $23.00

Daniel Mendelsohn - The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

Noted critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn never knew his uncle Shmiel, who died in the Holocaust, but family members who did never forgot him, and they spoke about him to Daniel, who was moved enough to begin a search to learn of the fate of his uncle, his uncle's wife, and their four daughters.... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$10.00 - $12.00

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