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The Lion and the Fox
The Lion and the Fox
Alexander Rose

From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to...

Gangsters Vs. Nazis by Michael Benson
Gangsters Vs. Nazis by Michael Benson
Michael Benson

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

Operation Underworld by Matthew Black
Operation Underworld by Matthew Black
Matthew Black

The never-before-told true story of how mobster Charles “Lucky” Luciano—the U.S. Mafia boss who put the “organiz...

The Scandalous Hamiltons by Bill Shaffer
The Scandalous Hamiltons by Bill Shaffer
Bill Shaffer

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

The Jeffersonians by Kevin R.C. Gutzman
The Jeffersonians by Kevin R.C. Gutzman
Kevin R. C. Gutzman

“A long, insightful look at three Founder presidents. ... Political histories are rarely page-turners, but Gutzman, cl...

Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernández
Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernández
Kelly Lytle Hernández

Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our un...

The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak
The Dark Queens by Shelley Puhak
Shelley Puhak

“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers an...

Young Bloomsbury by Nino Strachey
Young Bloomsbury by Nino Strachey
Nino Strachey

An “illuminating” (Daily Mail, London) exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group who inspi...

A Message from Ukraine
A Message from Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky

The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most p...

Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson
Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson
Rick Emerson

"Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . ....

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Huw Lemmey

An unconventional history of homosexualityWe all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad...

Watergate: A New History
Watergate: A New History
Garrett M. Graff

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The a...

Black Ghost of Empire
Black Ghost of Empire
Kris Manjapra

The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existe...

Profiles in Ignorance by Andy Borowitz
Profiles in Ignorance by Andy Borowitz
Andy Borowitz

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * Andy Borowitz, “one of the fu...

Requiem for the Massacre by R.J. Young
Requiem for the Massacre by R.J. Young
RJ Young

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

Off with Her Head by Eleanor Herman
Off with Her Head by Eleanor Herman
Eleanor Herman

New York Times bestseller Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Kings and Sex with Presidents, returns with another work of...

Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal
Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal
Elie Mystal

Instant New York Times Bestseller MSNBC legal commentator Elie Mystal thinks that Republicans are wrong about the law al...

In Sensorium: Notes for My People
In Sensorium: Notes for My People
Tanaïs

A 2022 Kirkus Prize Finalist for NonfictionFragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, wh...

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings rule...

Waging a Good War by Thomas E. Ricks
Waging a Good War by Thomas E. Ricks
Thomas E. Ricks

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Mov...

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem
Kliph Nesteroff

From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of N...

The Deep Rig by Patrick M. Byrne
The Deep Rig by Patrick M. Byrne
Patrick M Byrne

"Byrne is a libertarian who did not vote for Trump and has publicly criticized him: that said, he believes Election 2020...

Wake by Rebecca Hall
Wake by Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force...

Don't Call It a Cult
Don't Call It a Cult
Sarah Berman

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize FINALIST for 2022 Crime Write...

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael Lewis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But ...

Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina
Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina
Julia Albarracín

In Making Immigrants in Modern Argentina, Julia AlbarracÍn argues that modern Argentina's selection of immigrants lies ...

A Black Women's History of the United States
A Black Women's History of the United States
Daina Ramey Berry

2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Non-FictionHonorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of ...

Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.)

"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies abou...

Maiden Voyages by Siân Evans
Maiden Voyages by Siân Evans
Siân Evans

A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WOMEN'S LIVES DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL Before convenient air travel,transatlant...

That Wild Country by Mark Kenyon
That Wild Country by Mark Kenyon
Mark Kenyon

From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles o...

The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people w...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE D...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this coun...

The Lost City of Z by David Grann
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
David Grann

A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for t...

The World Is Flat
The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman

The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman's account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift adva...

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understandi...

The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characteriz...

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick

From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye--the riveting bestseller tells the story o...

Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein
Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein
Peter L. Bernstein

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction...