No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
By: Christopher Edmonds
4.31
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Spanning seven decades and linking a sprawling cast of heroes from every corner of the country, No…
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1. The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
By: Charles Pellegrino
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on the voices of atomic-bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles… read more
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2. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
By: Melba Pattillo Beals
4.17
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figu… read more
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"My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1954."-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
"The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences."-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
"Mother [Lois Marie Pattillo] began meeting with a few others from our community who were also determined to be admitted to the graduate school of education at the university."-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
"Grandma entertained us with reading or checkers or chess so we wouldn't bother Mother as she studied for her night-school exams. She was determined to complete her master's degree."-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
3. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
By: Gregory A. Freeman
4.36
Format: None pages,
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified docume… read more
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4. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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5. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
By: David Grann
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more
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6. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
By: Harold G. Moore , Joseph L. Galloway
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both releva… read more
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7. Killing Jesus: A History
By: Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Millions of readers have thrilled to bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard'… read more
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8. Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar
By: Alan Shipnuck
4.06
Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “A rollicking good time.” —Golfweek * “Thoroughly engaging.” —The Washi… read more
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9. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
4.37
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more
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10. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By: Timothy Egan
4.13
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more
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"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
11. The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
By: Angela Kelly
3.78
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
THE OFFICIAL BOOK, FULLY ENDORSED BY QUEEN ELIZABETH II From Her Majesty’s trusted confidant and D… read more
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12. The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
By: John Oller
4.15
Format: 563 pages, Kindle Edition
A popular, comprehensive biography of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox," covering his famous engageme… read more
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13. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
By: Andy Greenberg
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the futu… read more
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14. Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
By: James Wyllie
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of th… read more
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- holocaust
15. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
By: Helen Zia
4.47
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the… read more
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"In a world fractured by turmoil, there's much to learn from the profound human experience shared by the uprooted and displaced."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"There are many lessons to be learned from refugees and migrants that can contribute to the understanding needed to navigate the global tectonics to bring people together, not drive them into flight."-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Certainly, what was true for the refugees and exiles of Shanghai remains true for people fleeing catastrophe in contemporary times. Whether these migrants are driven from Syria, Myanmar, Bosnia, Suda…"-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
"Where America's WWII generation is often lauded as its greatest, the Chinese contemporaries of that generation deny any claims to such superlatives. Especially when China's 5,000 year history spans h…"-Helen Zia, Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution
16. With This Pledge (Carnton, #1)
By: Tamera Alexander
4.43
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
On the night of November 30, 1864, a brutal battle in Franklin, Tennessee, all but decimates the Co… read more
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17. No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
By: Christopher Edmonds
4.31
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
Spanning seven decades and linking a sprawling cast of heroes from every corner of the country, No… read more
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18. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
By: Adam Makos
4.53
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the international bestseller A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story… read more
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19. Make Something Good Today: A Memoir
By: Ben Napier
4.48
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today… read more
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"Faith was a permanent and unquestioned part of my life. My family-- everyone around me, really-- was cut the same cloth. We were churchgoers and Methodists, and those facts permeated just about every…"-Ben Napier, Make Something Good Today: A Memoir
20. Men Of Air: Doomed Youth of Bomber Command's War
By: Kevin Wilson
4.25
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
The winter of 1944 was the most dangerous time to be a combat airman in the RAF Bomber Command: the… read more
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