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" 'The Sea and the Sword' unfolds for the first time the complex and fascinating tapestry of sea battles and fighting ships in the Baltic."


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

The Baltic 1630-1944

The Sea and the Sword

Matthew Avery Sutton

The missionaries who spied for the United States during the Second World War.

The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War

The untold story of the Christian missionaries who played a crucial role in the allied victory in World War II What makes a good missionary makes a good spy. Or so thought "Wild" Bill Donovan when he secretly recruited a team of religious activists for the Office of Strategic Services. They entered into a world of lies, deception, and murder, confident that their nefarious deeds would eventually help them expand the kingdom of God. In Double Crossed, historian Matthew Avery Sutton tells the extraordinary story of the entwined roles of spy-craft and faith in a world at war. Missionaries, priests, and rabbis, acutely aware of how their actions seemingly conflicted with their spiritual calling, carried out covert operations, bombings, and assassinations within the centers of global religious power, including Mecca, the Vatican, and Palestine. Working for eternal rewards rather than temporal spoils, these loyal secret soldiers proved willing to sacrifice and even to die for Franklin Roosevelt's crusade for global freedom of religion. Chosen for their intelligence, powers of persuasion, and ability to seamlessly blend into different environments, Donovan's recruits included people like John Birch, who led guerilla attacks against the Japanese, William Eddy, who laid the groundwork for the Allied invasion of North Africa, and Stewart Herman, who dropped lone-wolf agents into Nazi Germany. After securing victory, those who survived helped establish the CIA, ensuring that religion continued to influence American foreign policy. Surprising and absorbing at every turn, Double Crossed is the untold story of World War II espionage and a profound account of the compromises and doubts that war forces on those who wage it.

Double Crossed

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William R. Trotter

November 30, 1939--Soviet bombers drop from a cloud bank to unload their bombs on the capital city of Finland. In the weeks to come the world will watch admiringly as the tiny army of the small Baltic republic wages the kind of war that inspires legends.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Russo-Finnish Winter War Of 1939-1940

Provides historical information on the march into Finland in November of 1940 to proclaim Finnish independence.

A Frozen Hell

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Erin Coyne

Igor Fisun

Everyday slang and vulgarities in Russian.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Everyday Slang From

GET D!RTY

Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Russia with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

* Cool slang
* Funny insults
* Explicit sex terms
* Raw swear words

Dirty Russian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Russia:

What's up?
kak de-LA?

I really gotta piss.
mnye O-chen NA-do pos-SAT.

Damn, you fine!
blin, nu ti i shi-KAR-nii!

Let's have an orgy.
da-VAI u-STRO-im OR-gi-yu.

This is crappy vodka.
d-ta VOD-ka khre-NO-va-ya.

Let's go get hammered.
poi-DYOM bukh-NYOM.

I'm gonna own you, bitch!
ya te-BYA VI-ye-blyu!

Dirty Russian

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Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

Patty Aubery

Nancy Mitchell

Nancy Mitchell Autio

101 stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit.

Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

Gathers stories and anecdotes concerning love, giving, parenting, faith, death, and overcoming obstacles

Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul

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This is the Russian edition of the popular travel guide to Belarus.

Путеводители Bradt

Belarus

Harold J. Rothwax

"Has the courtroom become a battleground for lawyers and egos instead of a search for the truth?" 

The Collapse of Criminal Justice

Drawing on a career's worth of experience and using the O.J. Simpson trial as a prime example, a well-respected state supreme court judge makes the case for 10 major reforms of the criminal justice system, including the end of unnanimous jury verdicts; the elimination of the Miranda rulings; and a new interpretation of the Fourth and Fofth Amendments.

Guilty

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Bona Arsenault

The history and genealogy of the Acadians.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

History of the Acadians

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the first month of World War I. A classic best-seller.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Guns of August

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Lynne Truss

"The zero tolerance approach to punctuation."

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

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Laurence M. Hauptman

James D. Wherry

William T. Hagan

"Scholars and general readers alike should appreciate this work as offering an important corrective to the stereotypical  views about eastern Indians and their tragic demise."

The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation

Before their massacre by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637, the Pequots were preeminent in southern New England. Their location on the eastern Connecticut shore made them important producers of the wampum required to trade for furs from the Iroquois. They were also the only Connecticut Indians to oppose the land-hungry English. For those reasons, they became the first victims of white genocide in colonial America. Despite the Pequot War of 1637, and the greed and neglect of their white neighbors and "overseers," the Pequots endured in their ancestral homeland. In 1983 they achieved federal recognition. In 1987 they commemorated the 350th anniversary of the Pequot War by organizing the Mashantucket Pequot Historical Conference, at which distinguished scholars presented the articles assembled here.

The Pequots in Southern New England

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Andrew Roberts

"Meticulously researched and compelling written, this book presents readers with fresh, complex portraits of leaders who approached war with different tactics and weapons, but with the common goal of success in the face of battle."
Note: This is an advance uncorrected manuscript.

Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History

Taking readers from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Roberts presents a bracingly honest and deeply insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Horatio Nelson, Margaret Thatcher, and George Marshall.

Leadership in War

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Bill Price

"...we take a look at fifty stories of people who, when faced with critical decisions, got them right."

And the People Who Made Them

History’s Greatest Decisions identifies and profiles the many important and difficult decisions leaders have made through history which shaped the world as we know it today. One of the defining features of being human is our capacity for complex problem solving. Most of the time we deal with mundane concerns, like what to have for breakfast or which pair of shoes to wear, but occasionally people face decisions about rather weightier matters. History’s Greatest Decisions is concerned with this second category, those important and difficult decisions which only a very few people get to make and which can impact on the lives of millions of others and have the potential to change the world. From our unknown ancestors who made the first stone tools, to those people in Northern Ireland who managed to put aside their differences in order to create a better future for their children; from the most powerful man in the world deciding not to start a nuclear war, to a woman on a bus standing up for her rights refusing to move seats. History's Greatest Decisions looks at well-known and not-so-well-known examples of people who made the crucial decisions and got them right.

History's Greatest Decisions

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Ira Byock

"What the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy and their own families."

What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

Fifty years after its original publication, a commemorative edition with a new introduction and updated resources section of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's beloved, groundbreaking classic on the five stages of grief.

One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Kübler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she gives readers a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.

This edition includes an elegant, enlightening introduction by Dr. Ira Byock, a prominent palliative care physician and the author of Dying Well, as well as Congressional testimony given by Dr. Kübler-Ross on death with dignity.

On Death and Dying

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Robert Harrison

Guy Gavriel Kay

"One of the crowning achievements of medieval artistic genius."

A lyrical translation of the great medieval epic set during the reign of Charlemagne chronicles the 778 battle of Roncesvals between the Franks and the Moors and the doomed heroism of Roland, the embodiment of the chivalric ideal, and his men. Reprint.

The Song of Roland

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Peter Dale Scott

Jane Burton

Kim Taylor

"A practical guide to building, stocking, and maintaining freshwater and marine aquariums."

A Practical Guide to Building, Stocking, and Maintaining Freshwater and Marine Aquariums

Provides advice on setting up, stocking, and maintaining an aquarium, and details how to create sixteen different freshwater and marine environments from all over the world

The Complete Aquarium

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James I. Robertson

This is "compelling chronicle of Blue against Gray, brother against brother, told by renowned Civil War scholar James I. Robertson, Jr."

America Becomes One Nation

Civil War!

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Alexander Orloff

John Goodman

Dmitri O. Shvidkovsky

This is a beautiful 'coffee table' book that includes stunning photographs of this historic 'City of the Tsars.'

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Architecture of the Tsars

St. Petersburg

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"This is beautiful Florence, or rather, 'Florentia,' as its citizens once called it to remind the world that it was a city in bloom with a wealth of flowers."
This is a wonderful volume containing stunning photos of this world-renowned Renaissance city.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A Journey of Dreams

Florence

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"Get eight inside the strategic thinking behind fifty of history's greatest military, political, and economic triumphs."

Fifty Strategies That Changed History

Bruce Jacobson

Compiled in conjunction with the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation, this detailed volume provides an overview of the past , present and future of this cherished waterway.

Heritage Resource Assessment and Interpretive Plan

Storied Lands and Waters of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway

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This collectible book is the personal account and an intimate record of the author's experiences before, during and after the Bolshevist Revolution.

Russia My Home

George W. Bush

Laura Bush

Peter Pace

"A commander-in-chief's tribute to America's warriors."

A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors

"Growing out of President Bush's own outreach and the ongoing work of the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative, [this book] brings together sixty-six full-color portraits and a four-panel mural painted by President Bush of members of the United States military who have served our nation with honor since 9/11--and whom he has come to know personally ... Each painting in this ... hardcover volume is accompanied by the ... story of the veteran depicted, written by the President"--Amazon.com.

Portraits of Courage

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Anna Reid

"A detailed and harrowing account of life and death in Leningrad...now the people themselves have regained their voices." --Wall Street Journal

The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler's brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The German siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation. Stripping away decades of Soviet propaganda, and drawing on newly available diaries and government records, Anna Reid chronicles the Nazis' deliberate decision to starve Leningrad into surrender, the incompetence and cruelty of the Soviet war leadership, the horrors experienced by soldiers on the front lines, and, above all, the ordeal of life in the blockaded city. Leningrad tackles a raft of unanswered questions: Was the size of the death toll as much the fault of Stalin as of Hitler? Why didn't the Germans capture the city? Why didn't it collapse into anarchy? What decided who lived and who died? Impressive in its originality and literary style, Leningrad gives voice to the dead and throws new light on one of the twentieth century's greatest calamities.

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