Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Jewish Lives)
By: Martin Goodman
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great…
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1. Julius Caesar
By: Philip Freeman
4.32
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of his… read more
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- ancient history
- history
- biography
2. Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul
By: Daniel Gordis
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Reviled as a fascist by his great rival Ben-Gurion, venerated by Israel's underclass, the first Isr… read more
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3. My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
By: Meir Shalev , Evan Fallenberg
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boycomes a charming tale of family ties, over… read more
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4. We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
By: Alex Rowell
4.19
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A searing exploration of authoritarianism in the Middle East through the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nass… read more
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- history
- biography
5. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- biography
6. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- history
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
7. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
8. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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- history
- biography
9. Long Time Dead (Detective Sheridan Holler, #1)
By: T.M. Payne
4.26
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
DI Sheridan Holler is used to solving crimes on Liverpool’s streets, but after a decayed corpse tur… read more
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10. Bibi: My Story
By: Benjamin Netanyahu
4.48
Format: 733 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s ”compelling” (The Economist) and“substa… read more
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- history
- biography
11. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- history
12. What We Buried
By: Robert Rotenberg
3.85
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A Toronto homicide detective is attacked at his doorstep when his investigation into possible links… read more
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13. The Age of AI and Our Human Future
By: Henry Kissinger
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more
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- history
14. The Hebrew Teacher
By: Maya Arad
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more
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"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
15. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
By: Ramie Targoff
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more
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- history
- biography
16. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
By: Philip Freeman
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Han… read more
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- ancient history
- history
- biography
17. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By: Jason Roberts
4.25
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more
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- history
- biography
18. Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family
By: Jordan Mechner
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this intergenerational graphic memoir, renowned video game designer Jordan Mechner traces the pa… read more
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- history
- biography
19. House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
By: Justine Firnhaber-Baker
4.30
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealt… read more
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- history
- biography
20. A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
By: Anna Reid
3.96
Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition
A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial … read more
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- history
21. Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
4.57
Format: 546 pages, Hardcover
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish … read more
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22. The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
By: Michael Norton
3.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit and Angela Duckworth’s Grit, a … read more
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23. American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
By: Alan Taylor
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize winner’s masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the cont… read more
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- history
24. Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Jewish Lives)
By: Martin Goodman
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great… read more
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- ancient history
- history
- biography
25. Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair (Jewish Lives)
By: Maurice Samuels
4.37
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself… read more
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- history
26. 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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- history
"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.
27. The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
By: Dan Slater
3.91
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime… read more
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- history
- biography
28. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
29. Precipice
By: Robert Harris
4.23
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more
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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"-Robert Harris, Precipice
"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"-Robert Harris, Precipice
30. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
By: Raj Shah
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known… read more
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- history
31. Jerusalem through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades
By: Jodi Magness
4.38
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of one of the world's holiest of cities, based on the most recent archaeologica… read more
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- ancient history
- history
