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Everything Beautiful in Its Time
Everything Beautiful in Its Time
Jenna Bush Hager

Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the...

The Happiest Man on Earth
The Happiest Man on Earth
Eddie Jaku

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a ...

Landslide : The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
Landslide : The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
Michael Wolff

Politics has given us some shocking and confounding moments but none have come close to the careening final days of Dona...

Afghan Napoleon by Sandy Gall
Afghan Napoleon by Sandy Gall
Sandy Gall

The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in...

Franci's War
Franci's War
Franci Epstein

What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives...

The Ratline by Philippe Sands
The Ratline by Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands

As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundr...

(Download PDF) A Bigger Picture
(Download PDF) A Bigger Picture
Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's 29th prime minister, tells the remarkable story of his life in this lively political page-...

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Sonia Purnell

***A New York Times bestseller*** 'Riveting' Mick Herron, New York Times * 'A rousing tale' The Times, Book of the Week ...

War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line
War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line
David Nott

'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more ...

Meditations : The Philosophy Classic
Meditations : The Philosophy Classic
Marcus Aurelius

A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as “The Philosopher” Meditations ...

Radio Girl by David Dufty
Radio Girl by David Dufty
David Dufty

As you climbed the rickety stairs of an old woolshed at Sydney harbor in 1944, you could hear rows of men and women in u...

The Room Where It Happened
The Room Where It Happened
John Bolton

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, ...

Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
Buckley's Chance by Garry Linnell
Garry Linnell

He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his...

The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson
The Kennedy Curse by James Patterson
James Patterson

JAMES PATTERSON'S MASTERPIECE________________________________Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they d...

Break Point by Ollie Ollerton
Break Point by Ollie Ollerton
Ollie Ollerton

DON'T MISS OLLIE OLLERTON'S EXPLOSIVE DEBUT NOVEL SCAR TISSUE! PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW.OLLIE OLLERTON CO-HOSTS SAS: WHO ...

Rage by Bob Woodward
Rage by Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward

Rage goes behind the scenes with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's...

Mill Town : Reckoning with What Remains
Mill Town : Reckoning with What Remains
Kerri Arsenault

One of O Magazine's Best Books of Fall 2020Newsweek’s “Must-Read Fall Nonfiction”A Publishers Weekly Top 10 books ...

The Truths We Hold
The Truths We Hold
Kamala Harris

A New York Times bestseller From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that un...

I Have Something to Tell You
I Have Something to Tell You
Chasten Buttigieg

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic p...

The Volunteer
The Volunteer
Jack Fairweather

An outstanding achievement ... a harrowing tale, revealing the depths of human depravity, redeemed by the shining courag...

Too Much and Never Enough
Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a train...

The House of Kennedy
The House of Kennedy
James Patterson

The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual fa...

You Never Forget Your First
You Never Forget Your First
Alexis Coe

"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's...

The Lincoln Conspiracy (Conspiracy)
The Lincoln Conspiracy (Conspiracy)
Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against Geor...

Killing Crazy Horse by Bill O'Reilly
Killing Crazy Horse by Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and th...

The Cut Out Girl
The Cut Out Girl
Bart van Es

The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an...

Churchill : Walking with Destiny
Churchill : Walking with Destiny
Andrew Roberts

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF TH...

The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz
The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz
Jeremy Dronfield

The inspiring, true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust. In 1939, Gustav Kle...

[Free Download] War Doctor
[Free Download] War Doctor
David Nott

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with t...

[Free Download] Sea Stories : My Life in Special Operations
[Free Download] Sea Stories : My Life in Special Operations
Admiral William H. McRaven

In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from ...

Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?
Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?
Horace Greasley

The incredible true story of how of one British soldier escaped a prisoner war camp 200 times to see the girl he loved.A...

The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday...

Fire and Fury (The Trump Trilogy #1)
Fire and Fury (The Trump Trilogy #1)
Michael Wolff

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesmerising. Now, thanks to his de...

Fear: Trump in the White House
Fear: Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLDRUNAWAY #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSENSATIONAL #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Explosive.”—...

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2
Elena Favilli

"This amazing book shows girls they can be anything they want." - Melinda Gates A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! This sequel...

Shattered : Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
Shattered : Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
Jonathan J. M. Allen

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary ...

A Different Kind of Daughter
A Different Kind of Daughter
Maria Toorpakai

'Armed with a squash racket and enormous will, Maria Toorpakai has risen from the turmoil of tribal life in Pakistan to ...

Grant by Ron Chernow
Grant by Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow

The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017“Eminently readable but thick w...

In Order to Live
In Order to Live
Yeonmi Park

'I am most grateful for two things- that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park wa...

The Girl with Seven Names
The Girl with Seven Names
Hyeonseo Lee

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictat...

Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father
Barack Obama

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revea...

Victoria the Queen
Victoria the Queen
Julia Woodlands Baird

The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behin...

Gurkha : Better to Die than Live a Coward
Gurkha : Better to Die than Live a Coward
Kailash Limbu

In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Lim...

The Churchill Factor
The Churchill Factor
Boris Johnson

As the country navigates a national crisis once again, read how Britain's Prime Minister was inspired by Winston Churchi...

Stalin, Vol. 1 : Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stalin, Vol. 1 : Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin

"A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: ...

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
David McCullough

#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-...

12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup

The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. 'Why had...

Dorothea's War by Dorothea Crewdson
Dorothea's War by Dorothea Crewdson
Dorothea Crewdson

The evocative diaries of a young nurse stationed in northern France during the First World War, published for the first ...

Zealot by Reza Aslan
Zealot by Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers t...

[Free Download] American Sniper [Movie Tie-in Edition]
[Free Download] American Sniper [Movie Tie-in Edition]
Chris Kyle

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster...

Escape from Camp 14
Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden

Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape... Twen...

[Free Download] Outlaw Platoon
[Free Download] Outlaw Platoon
Sean Parnell

A riveting story of American fighting men, Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell’s stunning personal account of th...

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Week...

[Free Download] Pathfinder : A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines
[Free Download] Pathfinder : A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines
David Blakeley

Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance...First in - the official motto of one of the ...

[Free Download] Viper Pilot : A Memoir of Air Combat
[Free Download] Viper Pilot : A Memoir of Air Combat
Dan Hampton

151 combat missions 21 hard kills on surface-to-air-missile sites 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor 1 Purple Hea...

She-wolves by Helen Castor
She-wolves by Helen Castor
Helen Castor

The stories of these women - told here in all their vivid humanity - illustrate the paradox which the female heirs to th...

[Free Download] Black Hearts
[Free Download] Black Hearts
Jim Frederick

"Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can...

Che Guevara : A Revolutionary Life
Che Guevara : A Revolutionary Life
Jon Lee Anderson

Acclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel who...

Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, and a career as a public i...

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin remains, like Hitler, the personification of evil. This enthralling biography reads like a thriller and reveals t...

[Free Download] Generation Kill
[Free Download] Generation Kill
Evan Wright

Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog.Read about the Penguin Group (USA) partnership with HBO in support of the G...

[Free Download] Where Men Win Glory
[Free Download] Where Men Win Glory
Jon Krakauer

Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was...

American Lion by Jon Meacham
American Lion by Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham

The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington fore...

The Twelve Caesars
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius

An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in ...

Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Bill Bryson

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but h...

Eichmann in Jerusalem
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust   Originally appearing as a series...

Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Emil Frankl

One of the ten most influential books in America. --Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club Survey of Lifetime Reader...

[Free Download] One Bullet Away
[Free Download] One Bullet Away
Nathaniel Fick

If the Marines are ?the few, the proud,” Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Fick's career begins...

The Audacity of Hope
The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama

"A government that truly represents these Americans-that truly serves these Americans-will require a different kind of p...

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford

A re-evaluation of Genghis Khan's rise to power examines the reforms the conqueror instituted throughout his empire and ...

The Secret Man
The Secret Man
Bob Woodward

In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped...

His Excellency: George Washington
His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph J. Ellis

National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, ...

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow

In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the ri...

If This Is A Man/The Truce
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Primo Levi

With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chem...

The Mitford Girls
The Mitford Girls
Mary S. Lovell

THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are ...

Cider with Rosie
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee

At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a re...

First They Killed My Father
First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung

Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom ...

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfi...

The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene

"Machiavelli has a new rival. And Sun Tzu had better watch his back. Greene . . . has put together a checklist of ambiti...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X

ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiog...

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Linc...

Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

1. a) After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, the Dutch people were immediately faced with the question ...

About Face by Hackworth
About Face by Hackworth
David H. Hackworth

Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this national bestseller...

The Power Broker
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro

Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as ...