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Nexus

Yuval Noah Harari

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world....

History $2.99 2024-09-10

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...

United States $1.99 2025-11-18

Blood and Thunder

Hampton Sides

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority a...

United States $12.99 2006-10-03

The Fate of the Day

Rick Atkinson

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the bestselling author of The British Are Coming, G...

United States $2.99 2025-04-29

The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel

Douglas Brunt

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Why did one of the world’s most successful business titans, an oil magnate who rivaled the Rockefellers and the Rot...

History $16.99 2026-05-19

The Gods of New York

Jonathan Mahler

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever—and anticip...

United States $1.99 2025-08-12

The Bomber Mafia

Malcolm Gladwell

Dive into this New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war—from the creator and host of the ...

History $11.99 2021-04-27

The Lions of Iwo Jima

Fred Haynes & James A. Warren

A WWII veteran presents an "intense, moving account" of the battle for Iwo Jima: "the harsh face of war . . . has rarely bee portrayed so effectively"...

History $1.99 2008-08-05

The Housewives Underground

Kaitlyn Tiffany

The untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report—a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American century “...

United States $13.99 2026-06-23

History Matters

David McCullough

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays—many never published before—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and bestselling author David Mc...

United States $2.99 2025-09-16

France

Jonathan Fenby

"Quelle histoire! . . . This book is a feast of tidbits about French history . . . the presentation [is] jazzed up with sidebars and timelines." — The...

Europe $1.99 2016-11-08

The American Civil War

Christopher J. Olsen

"A solid history of the Civil War. . . . The author delivers a shrewd portrait of mid-19th-century America and the background to the war." — Kirkus Re...

United States $1.99 2007-04-15

The Wreck of the Mentor

Eric Jay Dolin

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An exciting and at times almost unbelievably dramatic story.” —Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal New York ...

History $14.99 2026-06-02

1491 (Second Edition)

Charles C. Mann

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the ar...

Americas $2.99 2005-08-09

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale...

United States $12.99 2004-02-10

Area 51

Annie Jacobsen

This bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time. "Compelling...

Military $12.99 2011-05-17

An Army at Dawn

Rick Atkinson

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War I...

History $2.99 2007-05-15

This Vast Enterprise

Craig Fehrman

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise of...

United States $16.99 2026-04-21

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...

History $9.99 2024-04-09

Ghost Soldiers

Hampton Sides

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The greatest World War II story never told” ( Esquire )—an enthralling account of the heroic mission to rescue the last survivo...

History $1.99 2002-05-07

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