New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
By: Simon Targett
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-wer…
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1. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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- british literature
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
2. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
By: Bernard Bailyn
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
From an acclaimed historian of early America, a compelling account of the first great transit of pe… read more
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- american history
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- nonfiction
3. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
By: Stephen King
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and … read more
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4. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
By: Rick Perlstein
4.33
Format: 308 pages,
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more
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5. The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
By: Colin Woodard
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The inspiration for the NBC series Crossbones. In the early eighteenth century a number of the grea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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6. 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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7. The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
By: Fred Anderson , R. Scott Stephenson
3.64
Format: 24 pages,
The globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this "rich, cautionary tale" (The New Yor… read more
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8. The Hunger
By: Alma Katsu
0.00
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical mome… read more
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9. Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
By: David A. Price
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book and aSan Jose Mercury NewsTop 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, appro… read more
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10. The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
By: Andrew Scott Cooper
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written wi… read more
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11. Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
By: Ben Macintyre
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most re… read more
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12. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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13. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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14. The Terror
By: Dan Simmons
1.33
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Iliumand Olympostransforms the true story of a legendary Arctic expeditio… read more
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15. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
16. This Thing Between Us
By: Gus Moreno
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more
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"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us
17. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- world history
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18. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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19. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- history
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"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
20. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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21. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
22. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
23. 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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24. Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
By: Stephen R. Platt
4.32
Format: 555 pages, Kindle Edition
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of … read more
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25. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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26. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
By: Kathleen Belew
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more
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"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
27. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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28. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
By: Alan Taylor
4.22
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends th… read more
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29. New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
By: Simon Targett
4.04
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-wer… read more
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- history
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- british literature
- nonfiction
- economics
- audiobook
30. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
By: Mick Herron
4.30
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the … read more
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"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)
31. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
By: Mick Herron
4.41
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more
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"...What did you say?"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)
