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Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
A Simon & Schuster book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.Author: Doris Kearns GoodwinISBN-10: 1982108665ISBN-13: 9781982108663Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2024Pages: 496Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.27d- $30.00
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Author:Rachel Maddow
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. Inspired by her research for...- $32.00
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Author:Eric Jay Dolin
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....- $18.95
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Author:Carole Emberton
To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her parentage. She grew up isolated and unsure of who...- $17.95
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Author:The Countess of Carnarvon
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
The real-life inspiration and setting for the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon.Drawing on a rich...- $17.00
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Author:Hampton Sides
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Author: Hampton SidesISBN-10: 0385544766ISBN-13: 9780385544764Publisher: Doubleday BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2024Pages: 432Format: Hardcover- $35.00
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Author:Olivia Campbell
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care. In the early 1800s,...- $17.99
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Author:Fareed Zakaria
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Populist rage, ideological fractures, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk--the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived,...- $29.99
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Author:Eric Pallant
Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers
Sourdough bread fueled the labor that built the Egyptian pyramids. The Roman Empire distributed free sourdough loaves to its citizens to maintain political stability. More recently, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, sourdough bread baking became a global phenomenon as people contended with being confined to...- $29.00
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Author:Bill Hammack
The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
Discover the secret method used to build the world...For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful...- $26.99
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Author:Eric H. Cline
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated
A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapse In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into...- $16.95
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Author:Donald L. Miller
Masters of the Air Mti: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
The inspiration for the major Apple TV+ series, premiering January 26, 2024! The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II and the young men who flew the bombers that helped beat the Nazis and liberate Europe, brilliantly told by...- $23.00
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Author:David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Lost City of Z. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world...- $17.00
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Author:Erin L. Thompson
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up...- $15.95
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Author:Fergus Bordewich
Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change--The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines, and everyday folk For most, the mention of the Underground Railroad evokes images of hidden tunnels, midnight rides,...- $14.99
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Author:Mark Harmon
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Author: Mark HarmonISBN-10: 1400337011ISBN-13: 9781400337019Publisher: Harper SelectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2023Pages: 272Format: Hardcover- $29.99
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Author:Tim Alberta
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
The award-winning journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this timely, rigorously reported, and deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement. Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most...- $35.00
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Author:Rashid Khalidi
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create...- $18.99
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Author:Bill O'Reilly
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits...- $32.00
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Author:Heather Cox Richardson
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back. In the midst of the...- $30.00
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Author:Ned Blackhawk
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants....- $35.00
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Author:Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide...- $11.00
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Author:Kai Bird
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found...- $23.00
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Spare
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow--and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must...- $36.00
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Author:Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published. "This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . ....- $15.00
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Author:Douglas Preston
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
The first ever nonfiction collection from celebrated New Yorker contributor and #1 bestselling author Douglas Preston. Death in Print is a collection of narrative nonfiction from essayist, thriller writer, and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston. What's it like to be the first to enter...- $30.00
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Author:Elie Wiesel
Night
A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents...- $12.00
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Author:Douglas Brunt
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I--this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. September 29,...- $28.99
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Author:Max Miller
Tasting History: Explore the Past Through 4,000 Years of Recipes (a Cookbook)
Begin your very own food journey through the centuries and around the world with the first cookbook from the beloved YouTube channel Tasting History with Max Miller What began as a passion project when Max Miller was furloughed during Covid-19 has become a viral...- $30.00
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Author:David Grann
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century--the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in...- $17.95
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Author:Patrick K. O'Donnell
The Unvanquished: The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the Shadow War That Forged America'
From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forcesThe Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that...- $30.00
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Author:Jocko Willink
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win
From Jocko Wilnick, the New York Times best selling author of Discipline Equals Freedom and Leadership Strategy and Tactics, an updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the...- $29.99
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Author:Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns...- $20.00
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Author:Clay Cane
The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for racism.After the Civil War, the pillars of Black Republicanism were a balanced critique...- $26.99
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Author:Timothy Egan
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"With meticulous detective work, Timothy Egan shines a light on one of the most sinister chapters in American history--how a viciously racist movement, led by a murderous conman, rose to power in the early twentieth century. A Fever in the Heartland is compelling, powerful,...- $30.00
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Author:Donald L. Miller
Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to...- $22.00
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Author:Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern...- $27.00
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Author:Anderson Cooper
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and...- $32.99
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Author:Halik Kochanski
Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
"To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way . . ." --Dutch resister Herman FriedhoffIn every country that fell to the Third Reich during the Second World War, from France in the...- $45.00
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Author:Ilyon Woo
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
New York Times Bestseller The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave. In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt,...- $19.99
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Author:Mary Beard
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not...- $37.95
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Author:Lucy Adlington
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Author: Lucy AdlingtonISBN-10: 0063030934ISBN-13: 9780063030930Publisher: Harper PaperbacksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2021Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.87h x 5.28w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2021Booklist 08/01/2021 pg. 18Publishers Weekly 08/23/2021- $17.99
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Author:Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.#1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperbackFrom a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a...- $24.99
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Author:Omid Scobie
Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival
Endgame, the new book from the author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, pulls back the curtain on the Palace, exposing the chaos, dysfunction, and distrust amongst the British royal family, and what needs to happen to preserve a monarchy in crisis.On September 8,...- $32.00
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Author:Eti Elboim
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the chaos inside. Sara Leibovitz, a 16-year-old Jewish girl, was a passenger...- $18.99
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Author:Adam Lazarus
The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
The extraordinary untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two disparate American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history. It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men--already...- $29.00
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Author:Jonathan Eig
King: A Life
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times. Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of...- $35.00
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Author:John O'Connor
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Journalist and writer John O'Connor takes readers on a narrative quest through...- $26.99
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Author:Sandy Tolan
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST "Extraordinary ... A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum ... Highly readable and evocative." - The Washington Post The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes...- $18.00
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Author:Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. "Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this...- $18.00
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