Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
By: Craig Fehrman
4.04
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s president…
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1. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.96
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An ironic examination of the founding years of the United States of America. Historian Ellis guides… read more
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- american
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- history
- historical
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"Hindsight history, sometimes call counterfactual history, is usually not history at all, but most often a condescending game of oneupmanship in which the living play political tricks on the dead, who…"-Joseph J. Ellis, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
2. American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
By: David O. Stewart
3.91
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president… read more
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3. Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
By: Tori Telfer
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are likely Jack th… read more
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"They caused the greatest disappointment,"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"Distanciar-se do crime é natural, mas distancie-se demais e o crime se tornará ilusão."-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"Why did that one friend scoot her chair away from me when I told her I “empathized but didn’t sympathize"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"One otherwise-great book on the subject includes a line implying that the “cute girl behind the deli counter slicing our bread"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
4. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
By: Ian Fleming
3.64
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more
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"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt veļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)
5. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
By: Ian Fleming
3.91
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more
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"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
6. Mommie Dearest
By: Christina Crawford
3.11
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
With the 20th Anniversary Edition of Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford becomes one of the only aut… read more
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7. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The prizewinning author of Founding Brothersand American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--… read more
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8. Yes: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania
By: Daniel Bryan , Craig Tello
3.70
Format: 24 pages,
One of WWE's most unlikely champions of all time and also one of its most popular, Bryan has proved… read more
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9. Deliverance
By: James Dickey
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In t… read more
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10. 41: A Portrait of My Father
By: George W. Bush
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Hardcover
George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his f… read more
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11. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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12. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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13. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer for History, No Ordinary Timeis a chronicle of one of the most vibrant & rev… read more
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14. The American Revolution: A History
By: Gordon S. Wood
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nic… read more
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15. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)
By: Ian Fleming
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more
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16. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
By: Ian Fleming
3.80
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more
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"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
17. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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18. Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
By: Rebecca Quin
4.51
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. B… read more
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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will complete you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will destroy you"-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
"Then and there, I vowed to lose weight so I might have a chance of actually being like my mom when I grew up. But then I got hungry and sad and just wanted pizza. Beauty was my mom's domain. Pizza wa…"-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl
19. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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20. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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21. Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
By: Ty Seidule
4.42
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty… read more
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"When we identify our history, we can change the narrative."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"Whenever Lee made a decision regarding enslaved people he chose profit over human decency."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"History is always changing. We link the past to our conception of the present and we always have."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
"When people have no political outlet nor means of changing a racist society, rioting is their only voice."-Ty Seidule, Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
22. An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
By: Richard Norton Smith
4.46
Format: 992 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including G… read more
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23. Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
By: Tracy Borman
4.30
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King H… read more
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24. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
By: Joanne B. Freeman
4.09
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In The Field of Blood, the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portr… read more
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25. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
By: Liza Mundy
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more
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26. Ruined
By: Sarah Vaughn
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that … read more
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27. Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
By: James M. Fallows
3.61
Format: 413 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by… read more
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"The mark of a successful city is having a river walk, whether or not there is a river."-James M. Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
"Inside public libraries you see the people, programs, problems, and answers that offer a genuine look into the heart and soul of a town."-James M. Fallows, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
28. Nights in White Castle
By: Steve Rushin
4.36
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Picking up where he left off in his acclaimed memoir Sting-Ray Afternoons , Steve Rushin brilliantl… read more
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29. Seven Games: A Human History
By: Oliver Roeder
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why―and how―we play them. C… read more
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30. Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
By: Craig Fehrman
4.04
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s president… read more
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31. For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
By: John A. Ragosta
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defe… read more
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"...our Constitution provides a safe and easy method to redress any real grievances....What excuse can there be for forcible opposition to the laws?' -- SAMUEL ADAMS, Letter to the Massachusetts Legis…"-John A. Ragosta, For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
"...my idea of the sovereignty of the people is, that the people can change the constitution if they please, but while the constitution exists, they must conform themselves to its dictates.' -- JAMES …"-John A. Ragosta, For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government--But, the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and …"-John A. Ragosta, For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
"I cannot conclude without earnestly recommending to my fellow-citizens, the forbearance of all force or violence, to obstruct the execution of the laws, or disturb the peace of society' relying, to e…"-John A. Ragosta, For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
