In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
By: Terry Alford
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Here is Lincoln in the Bardo ―for real. You couldn’t make it up―necromancers, mad actors, frauds, …
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1. The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)
By: Sandra Gulland
3.00
Format: None pages,
Young Josephine Bonaparte shines at the center of a new, sweeping, romantic work of historical fict… read more
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- historical
2. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.93
Format: 316 pages,
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
- civil war
3. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Gerald Blaine
3.65
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The New York Timesbestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and… read more
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4. Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson
By: None
3.49
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
1 corinthians 10:13, niv "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is fai… read more
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5. Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
By: Michael Capuzzo
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shorebrilliant… read more
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6. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
By: Michael W. Kauffman
3.08
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraha… read more
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7. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
By: Susan J. Eischeid
4.21
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
9. Robert E. Lee: A Life
By: Allen C. Guelzo
4.25
Format: 588 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion comes a sweeping, intimate biography of … read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- civil war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
11. The General and Julia
By: Jon Clinch
3.82
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and… read more
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- historical
- american history
- civil war
- audiobook
12. The Trial of Lizzie Borden
By: Cara Robertson
3.40
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August o… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.45
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- civil war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
14. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
By: Joe Pompeo
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
By: Barbara Weisberg
3.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
17. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
By: Margaret A. Burnham
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, … read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. BuzzFeed Unsolved Supernatural: 101 True Tales of Hauntings, Demons, and the Paranormal
By: Ryan Bergara
4.12
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Based off one of the most popular web series on the internet, Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej present … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- paranormal
- audiobook
19. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
By: Harold Schechter
3.46
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychop… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
21. Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
By: Rinker Buck
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds … read more
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- biography
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- historical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
By: Terry Alford
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Here is Lincoln in the Bardo ―for real. You couldn’t make it up―necromancers, mad actors, frauds, … read more
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- biography
- history
- historical
- civil war
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- paranormal
- spiritualism
- audiobook
23. The House of Lincoln
By: Nancy Horan
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with The Ho… read more
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"Some day she [Ana Ferreira Evans] would write what she had learned about love in her widowhood. Love needs a place to go. Your heart doesn't stop making it when you lose the single adored person of y…"-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln
"She [Ana Ferreira Evans] remembered a remark [Mrs.] Alsop had once made. Some people are willfully ignorant. They aren't stupid--they simply choose to be oblivious. That way they aren't responsible f…"-Nancy Horan, The House of Lincoln
24. Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession
By: Laurence Leamer
3.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author of Capote’s Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic … read more
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- history
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. African Europeans: An Untold History
By: Olivette Otélé
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Africans or African Europeans are widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe, a feature… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
26. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
By: Miles Harvey
3.69
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
By: Richard White
3.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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- biography
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
By: Alan Taylor
4.22
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
By: Leanna Renee Hieber
3.68
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the notorious Lizzie Borden to the innumerable, haunted rooms of Sarah Winchester's mysterious… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- paranormal
- audiobook
"The power of the name is the same across all people."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"The symbolic meaning is far more interesting than the literal meaning."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"Idealization is not reality; it is a dream, an expectation, and a projection that does not need a woman to be alive to still be beholden to its trappings."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
"While it's easy to dismiss and belittle a living woman who dares to be vocally critical or angry, it is much harder to silence a ghost: She has remarkable staying power."-Leanna Renee Hieber, A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
31. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
