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Vendor: Xinran
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves--true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive societyFor eight groundbreaking years, Xinran hosted a radio program in China during which...- $36.95
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Vendor: Bob Drury
The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle That Defined WWII
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin's The Last Hill is the incredible untold story of one Ranger battalion's heroism and courage in World War II.They were known as "Rudder's Rangers," the most elite and experienced attack unit the Army had. In December 1944, they would...- $39.99
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Vendor: Pietro La Greca
Pesos: The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
A true multigenerational story of how one family had and lost it all along the US-Mexican border.Pietro La Greca Sr. was an intimidating Napolitano con man dubbed "Mexico's real-life Don Corleone." He ran Mexico's biggest money-laundering scheme during the worst economic period in the...- $24.99
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Vendor: Steve Fiffer
The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice
They are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and White. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native-born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, farmers, architects, novelists, and more. Names familiar and unfamiliar. Superheroes, figuratively...and in one case...- $24.99
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Vendor: John Spencer Bassett
The American Nation: A History, Vol. 11: The Federalist System, 1789-1801
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Federalist System, 1789-1801 by John Spencer Bassett, PhD, Professor of History, Trinity College, NCNarrated by Joseph TablerVolume 11 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918) Edited by Albert Bushnell...- $36.95
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Vendor: Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin
The American Nation: A History, Vol. 10: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789 by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, LLB, Professor of American History at the University of Michigan. 1936 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book A Constitutional History of the...- $36.95
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Vendor: John Rayburn
This Land Is Our Land: Myths, Facts, and Mysteries
Throughout the stories here is information on how places, cities, and states got their names. However, questions arise because Native American tribes of the day didn't yet have a written alphabet, and none of those came along until Sequoyah invented one in 1821, one...- $41.95
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Vendor: Kate Kitagawa
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Mathematics
A new history of mathematics focusing on the marginalized voices who propelled the discipline, spanning six continents and thousands of years of untold storiesWe think we know the story of math: A bearded old Greek guy named Pythagoras dreamed up his theorem. Another bearded...- $46.99
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Vendor: Stephan Talty
Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
"Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve. ... Talty delves the deepest into the history and twisted personality of David Koresh." --Wall Street JournalThe first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of government mistrust in America, from...- $51.99
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Vendor: Stephen Prothero
God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century America on an identity quest through the eyes and books of one of the most influential editors of the day--a search, born of two world...- $46.99
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Vendor: Larry Loftis
The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII--at the cost of losing her family and being sent...- $41.99
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Vendor: Caroline Moorehead
Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet returns with the incredible story of Mussolini's daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy and a powerful proponent of the fascist movement.Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's...- $57.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Freedland
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
A complex hero. A forgotten story. The first witness to reveal the full truth of the Holocaust.Award-winning journalist and bestselling novelist Jonathan Freedland tells the incredible story of Rudolf Vrba--the first Jew to break out of Auschwitz, a man determined to warn the world...- $41.99
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Vendor: Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of PiracyCaptain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl...- $41.99
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Vendor: Kenneth Harl
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization. For readers of The Storm before the Storm, The Silk Road and Ten Caesars. The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role...- $57.99
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Vendor: Oscar Farinetti
Serendipity: From Truffles and Champagne to Corn Flakes and Coffee: Stories of Accidental Success
Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to some of the world's most well-known gastronomic delights.Did you know that your morning coffee could be thanks to a herd of energetic goats? Or that a forgotten ingredient is behind the...- $31.95
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Vendor: Peter Longerich
Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution
The complete story of the Wannsee Conference, the meeting that paved the way for the HolocaustOn January 20, 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at...- $31.95
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Vendor: Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi
Author: Mark TwainISBN-10: 8200521818ISBN-13: 9798200521814Publisher: Mission AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2015Format: CDWeight: 0.74lbs- $57.99
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Vendor: Peter Berkrot
The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo Lib/E: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the old ones still have powers beyond our understanding. In this moving narrative, we travel through the...- $71.99
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Vendor: Tom Holland
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Author: Tom HollandISBN-10: 1799982238ISBN-13: 9781799982234Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2016Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d- $41.99
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Vendor: Dean King
Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite
The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite--from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir--iconic environmentalist, writer,...- $55.99
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Vendor: Michael Bamberger
The Ball in the Air: A Golfing Adventure
From Michael Bamberger, the New York Times bestselling author of Men in Green and our most celebrated contemporary golf writer, The Ball in the Air is a love letter to the amateur game, doing for golf what Friday Night Lights did for football.Over Michael...- $39.99
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Vendor: Christopher C. Miller
Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield & the Pentagon about America's Most Dangerous Enemies
President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an insider look at the tumultuous final days of the Trump administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden.If you know...- $45.00
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Vendor: Gulchehra Hoja
A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival
The extraordinary memoir of a woman who gave up everything to help her people In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime - and thus that of her family - was her award-winning investigations on the plight of her...- $45.00
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Vendor: Anne Glenconner
Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life
Bracing honesty, rare insight, and more revelations from the New York Times bestselling author of Lady in Waiting as she shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. Lady in Waiting brought us royal magic, beguiling insight, and jaw-dropping stories from life...- $45.00
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Vendor: Jennifer Wright
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
In the vein of other pop history books, this is a sharp, witty Gilded Age medical history starring the glamorous Madame Restell, a fearless birth control provider and abortionist for unmarried women in New York City, in defiance of persecution from powerful men.Madame Restell...- $45.00
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Vendor: Bob Thompson
Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America Independent...and All the Places It Could Have Gone Terribly Wrong
In the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, REVOLUTIONARY ROADS revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War. REVOLUTIONARY ROADS takes readers on a time-traveling adventure through the crucial places American independence was won and...- $50.00
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Vendor: Matt Potter
We Are All Targets: How Renegade Hackers Invented Cyber War and Unleashed an Age of Global Chaos
The incredible untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world Two years before 9/11, the United States was attacked by an unknown enemy. No advance warning was given, and it didn't target civilians. Instead, tomahawk missiles started missing...- $45.00
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Vendor: William R. Trotter
A Frozen Hell Lib/E: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
Author: William R. TrotterISBN-10: 1665234385ISBN-13: 9781665234382Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.66lbs- $71.99
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Vendor: Barbie Latza Nadeau
Roadmap to Hell Lib/E: Sex, Drugs, and Guns on the Mafia Coast
Author: Barbie Latza NadeauISBN-10: 1665231386ISBN-13: 9781665231381Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.39lbs- $66.99
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Vendor: Leon Nixon
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Author: Leon Nixon, James H. ConeISBN-10: 1665126124ISBN-13: 9781665126120Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2020Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs- $41.99
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Vendor: Marc McMenamin
Ireland's Secret War: Dan Bryan, G2 and the Lost Tapes That Reveal the Hunt for Ireland's Nazi Spies
A thrilling account of the true extent of Irish-Allied Co-Operation during World War II.Ireland's Secret War reveals strategic Nazi intentions for Ireland and the real role of leading government figures of the time, placing Dan Bryan and G2 - the military intelligence branch of...- $29.99
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Vendor: Adam Courtenay
Three Sheets to the Wind
A rollicking account of a little known event that changed the course of Australian history from bestselling author, Adam Courtenay.By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was, how a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 600 miles to save 7000 gallons of...- $29.99
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Vendor: Adam Courtenay
Three Sheets to the Wind
A rollicking account of a little known event that changed the course of Australian history from bestselling author, Adam Courtenay.By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was, how a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 600 miles to save 7000 gallons of...- $39.99
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Vendor: Lucy Ward
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus
A killer virus, an all-powerful Empress, an encounter cloaked in secrecy ... the astonishing true story.No disease sparked as much dread in the 18th century as smallpox. The virus killed millions across the globe, carrying off one in every five victims and disfiguring survivors...- $29.99
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Vendor: S. C. Gwynne
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a "captivating, thoroughly researched" (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world's largest airship--and the doomed love story between an ambitious...- $34.99
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Vendor: Gregg Jarrett
The Trial of the Century
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gripping and comprehensive history of the iconic attorney Clarence Darrow and the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Russia Hoax and the "superb" (Sean Hannity) Witch Hunt. Nearly a century ago, famed liberal...- $39.99
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Vendor: Bonnie Siegler
The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe
In this exuberant real-life adventure, the publisher of DC Comics comes to the rescue of a family trying to flee 1930s Berlin, their lives linking up with a dazzling cast of 20th century icons, all eagerly pursing the American dream.Family lore had it that...- $39.99
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Vendor: Jeff Guinn
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage
The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter and bestselling author Jeff Guinn. Waco breaks new ground that will change the perception of the dramatic events that...- $39.99
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Vendor: Mark Whitaker
Saying It Loud: 1966--The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan "Black Power" challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. In gripping, novelistic detail,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Adam Brookes
Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City
The extraordinary true story of how a group of bold and determined museum curators saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond.1924: Two days before Christmas, a small and clandestine group of professors,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Kate Zernike
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, Mit, and the Fight for Women in Science
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its female faculty for years--sparking a nationwide reckoning with the pervasive sexism in science. In 1999,...- $39.99
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Vendor: Mark Hager
The Last of the 357th Infantry: Harold Frank's WWII Story of Faith and Courage
For those who loved Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers and E.B. Sledge's With the Old Breed. Drawing on toughness and skills forged in hardscrabble Depression-era North Carolina, Bronze Star recipient and expert B.A.R. rifleman Harold Frank invades Normandy, fights Germans, and endures a...- $29.99
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Vendor: Prince Harry the Duke of Sussex
Spare
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, and healing. "Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir."--The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year) It was one of the most searing images of...- $50.00
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Vendor: Christian Adofo
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
The first book of its kind, A Quick Ting on Afrobeats chronicles the social and cultural development of the eponymous music genre, tracing its rich history from the African continent all the way to the musical centre of the Western world.Author: Christian AdofoISBN-10: 8400123670ISBN-13:...- $24.99
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Vendor: Rui Da Silva
A Quick Ting on Plantain
Recognised as one of the most beloved fruits of the Black diaspora, plantain holds profound value within the cultures and communities it is part of. A Quick Ting on Plantain is a cultural insight into the versatile fruit.Through exploring the sentimental meaning plantain has...- $24.99
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Vendor: James Alan McPherson
On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction
Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America's past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard...- $36.95
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Vendor: Frantz Fanon
A Dying Colonialism
Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian RevolutionPsychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth...- $36.95
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Vendor: Glenn Stout
Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Inspired the World
The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspire a "wave of confidence and emancipation" for women in sports (Parade).By age twenty, at the height of the Jazz Age, Trudy Ederle was the most accomplished swimmer...- $51.99
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Vendor: Russell Cobb
The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State
Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another "flyover state." A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United StatesOver the span of a century, Oklahoma gave birth to movements for an...- $41.95
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