Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
By: David K. Randall
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His p…
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1. Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
By: Dan Jones
4.02
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets, a short, lively, action-packed h… read more
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2. Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
By: Sam Kean
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story t… read more
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- audiobook
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"Don’t damn people to hell, damn them to Venus."-Sam Kean, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
3. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
By: Laura Spinney
3.91
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–… read more
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- medicine
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- disease
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4. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
5. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
By: Catherine Kerrison
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about M… read more
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6. Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
By: Kenneth C. Davis
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
What is an Egyptian pyramid doing on the U. S. dollar bill? Did a pharaoh inspire Moses to worship … read more
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7. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
By: Shelby Foote
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more
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8. Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
By: Kathryn Miles
3.54
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to … read more
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9. Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
By: Geoff Williams
3.85
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. … read more
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10. Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
By: Steve Inskeep
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men--President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee ch… read more
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11. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
By: Bryan Burrough
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out b… read more
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12. Billy Boyle (Billy Boyle World War II, #1)
By: James R. Benn
3.14
Format: 54 pages,
Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American, cop from Boston has just made detective - with a little help f… read more
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13. Summer of Blood: The Peasants' Revolt of 1381
By: Dan Jones
4.00
Format: 268 pages,
Re-evaluation of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Dan Jones brings to life the squalor, drama and comp… read more
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14. First Impressions
By: Jude Deveraux
3.62
Format: 280 pages,
A contemporary novel of romance and renewal from perennial bestseller Jude Deveraux, First Impressi… read more
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15. Reagan: The Life
By: H.W. Brands
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From master storyteller and New York Timesbestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive b… read more
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16. Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
By: Richard Preston
4.01
Format: 448 pages,
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17. Fathoms: The World in the Whale
By: Rebecca Giggs
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australi… read more
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18. The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
By: Matthew J. Davenport
4.03
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and… read more
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19. The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
By: Ross Douthat
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-tele… read more
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"I’m just saying that if this were the age in which some major divine intervention happened, whether long prophesied or completely unforeseen, there would be, in hindsight, a case that we should have …"-Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
20. Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
By: David K. Randall
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His p… read more
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21. I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
By: Khalida Brohi
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan--and the act of violence that inspired one ambitiou… read more
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"About one thousand woman are killed each year in Pakistan in the name of honor. And these are just the reported cases."-Khalida Brohi, I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
"Forgiveness is a selfish act. It unburdens you, relieves you and prepares you to move forward, take big steps and do all that you could not do when you were chained up in invisible ropes of a grudge."-Khalida Brohi, I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
