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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky 2024
(4.5)

“Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.” - New York Times Book ReviewAn unlikely world history from the bestselli...

The Scandalous Hamiltons

Bill Shaffer 2024
(4.5)

An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking courtroom drama that was...

The Rape of Nanking

Iris Chang 2024
(4.5)

In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime...

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson 2024
(4.5)

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE...

Requiem for the Massacre

RJ Young 2024
(4.5)

With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one hund...

White Trash by Nancy Isenberg

Nancy Isenberg 2024
(4.5)

The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics' Top Book of 2016Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth...

Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose 2024
(4.5)

On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest mi...

Agent Josephine by Damien Lewis

Damien Lewis 2024
(4.5)

The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 Singer. Actress. Beau...

One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson 2024
(4.5)

A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most b...

Gangsters Vs. Nazis

Michael Benson 2024
(4.5)

The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the years leading to WWII—and the fearless Jewish gangsters...

Dangerous Rhythms by T.J. English

T. J. English 2024
(4.5)

From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of...

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff 2024
(4.5)

ONE OF WALL STREET JOURNAL'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF LOS ANGELES TIMES TOP 5 NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF THE...

American Midnight by Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild 2024
(4.5)

National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Wash...

The Last King of America

Andrew Roberts 2024
(4.5)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and NapoleonThe last king of America, George III, has been ridic...

And There Was Light

Jon Meacham 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charti...

Prisoners of the Castle

Ben Macintyre 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “entertaining yet objective and often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of one o...

And There Was Light by Jon Meacham

Jon Meacham 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charti...

Dangerous Rhythms

T. J. English 2024
(4.5)

From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of...

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as...

The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover

Paul Letersky 2024
(4.5)

The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff—his former assistant, P...

Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally 2024
(4.5)

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winni...

The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig 2024
(4.5)

'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tel...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas #1

John Boyne 2024
(4.5)

The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford 2024
(4.5)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world cr...

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry

Christina Henry 2024
(4.5)

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding H...

Bill the Bastard by Roland Perry

Roland Perry 2024
(4.5)

An epic yarn based on the true story of a great Australian war horse who rode with bravery and valour at Gallipoli, the...

Ukraine and Russia by Paul D'Anieri

Paul D'Anieri 2024
(4.5)

D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West, that emerged...