Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
By: Neal Bascomb
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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1. Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
By: Dan Epstein
4.33
Format: None pages,
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most col… read more
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2. Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer
By: William Knoedelseder
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
"Bitter Brew deftly chronicles the contentious succession of kings in a uniquely American dynasty. … read more
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3. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
By: John U. Bacon
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, a gripping narrative-nonfiction account of th… read more
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4. The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit
By: Michael Cannell
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In THE LIMIT, Michael Cannell tells the enthralling story of Phil Hill-a lowly California mechanic … read more
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5. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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6. The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
By: Thomas Goetz
3.22
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it t… read more
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7. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
By: Stephen Jay Gould , None
3.56
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigan… read more
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8. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
By: Daniel James Brown
3.80
Format: 220 pages,
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9. Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
By: A.J. Baime
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses,… read more
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10. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By: Erik Larson
4.30
Format: 546 pages, ebook
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more
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11. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
By: Douglas Brunt
4.23
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more
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"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
12. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
13. Surviving to Drive
By: Guenther Steiner
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is wat… read more
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"Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be P…"-Guenther Steiner, Surviving to Drive
14. Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By: David Maraniss
4.02
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the … read more
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15. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season
By: Rich Cohen
3.90
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more
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16. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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17. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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18. The Wealth of Shadows
By: Graham Moore
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more
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19. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
By: Daniel James Brown
4.49
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more
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20. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
By: Tom Clavin
3.67
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more
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21. Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper's Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, and Heroism in the Last Days of World War II
By: Henry Langrehr
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person a… read more
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22. The Hellfire Club
By: Jake Tapper
3.62
Format: 352 pages, ebook
The debut political thriller from Jake Tapper, CNN's chief Washington correspondent and the New Yor… read more
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"When our wars are determined not by the threat of Nazism or racism or Communism but by the influence on policy-makers of those those who stand to reap financial benefits from the use of these arms - …"-Jake Tapper, The Hellfire Club
"I am sure because I am confident in the idea of the United States of America. I believe that the combination of checks and balances and a free press and our democratically elected representatives wil…"-Jake Tapper, The Hellfire Club
23. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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24. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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25. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more
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26. The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness
By: Kenn Kaufman
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his … read more
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27. Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan
By: Scott Mann
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An edge-of-your-seat thriller about a group of retired Green Bere… read more
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28. The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
By: John Lancaster
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Years before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of d… read more
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29. The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
By: Anna Shechtman
3.38
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen… read more
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30. Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
By: Neal Bascomb
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by a… read more
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31. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
By: Melissa Fitzgerald
4.49
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Mel… read more
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