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The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans -era tale of Oleg Gordievsky...
A Light in the Northern Sea
Tim Brady
From the bestselling author of Three Ordinary Girls, the gripping, remarkably little-known true story of how the people of Denmark banded ...
American Struggle
Jon Meacham
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and d...
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson
America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who w...
Murderland
Caroline Fraser
An Edgar Award finalist for True Crime • A National Bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker , Fo...
Official Secrets
Richard Breitman
Richard Breitman's Official Secrets is an important work based on newly declassified archives. As defeat loomed over the Third Reich in 1945, its offi...
The Fate of the Generals
Jonathan Horn
“One of the very best World War II books in many years…A great read.” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA * “Fans of U...
Roots
Alex Haley
Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where h...
The Demon of Unrest
Erik Larson
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln ...
Medieval Horizons
Ian Mortimer
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the author of The Time Traveller's Guide series— " the most remarkable medieval historian of ou...
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Explorat...
The Gales of November
John U. Bacon
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Smithsonian • 10 Best History Books of 2025 Bookpage • Best Books of 2025 "A work of spectral beauty destined to be a classi...
They Thought They Were Free
Milton Mayer
National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider." —...
The Black Calhouns
Gail Lumet Buckley
"A history cum memoir by Lena Horne's daughter tells the story of her forebears . . . eloquently conveys . . . how polit...
Papillon
Henri Charrière
“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” — The New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueen He...
Black in Blues
Imani Perry
A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, f...
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION ...
Lone Survivor
Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson
Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and ...
To Lose a War
Jon Lee Anderson
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker “A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I’ve read about Afghanistan, or any ot...
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
Ada Ferrer
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” ( The Wall Str...