The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster
By: Brian Regal
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born of colonial times that…
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1. Will Storr vs. The Supernatural: One Man's Search for the Truth About Ghosts
By: Will Storr
3.95
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
Will Storr has done some seriously bizarre and otherworldly things over the course of his career as… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
2. Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
By: Saul Friedländer
4.14
Format: 439 pages, Paperback
A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunte… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
3. The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942
By: Christopher R. Browning , None
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In 1939, the Nazi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Origins of Nazi Genocide
By: Henry Friedlander
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlanderexplores in chilling detail how… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Krampus: The Yule Lord
By: Brom
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"Terrific. A wild ride....I loved it. It hooked me and I couldn't put it down." --Mike Mignola, cre… read more
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6. Gender and the Politics of History
By: Joan Wallach Scott
3.53
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Associatio… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
7. Dread Nation
By: Justina Ireland
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Cha… read more
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- historical
8. The Kindly Ones (The Sandman #9)
By: Neil Gaiman , Glyn Dillon , Dean Ormston , Charles Vess , Todd Klein , None , Teddy Kristiansen , Marc Hempel , D'Israeli , Kevin Nowlan , None
3.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Penultimate volume to the phenomenal Sandman series: distraught by the kidnapping and presumed … read more
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9. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
By: Jim Murphy
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an … read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
10. Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America
By: John Putnam Demos
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this intimate, engaging book, John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial America… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
11. Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
By: Jan Tomasz Gross
4.25
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the… read more
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12. The Mothman Prophecies
By: John A. Keel
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life night… read more
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13. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
By: None
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Confessing to "familiarity with the devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut o… read more
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14. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town
By: Helmut Walser Smith
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood … read more
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15. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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16. Fairies: Real Encounters With Little People
By: Janet Bord
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hordes of tiny people playing at a spot in Wales called "Fairies Bog"...an impossibly tiny shoe fou… read more
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17. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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18. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
19. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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- historical
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
20. Alien III
By: William Gibson
3.45
Format: 136 pages, Audible Audio
Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time… read more
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21. The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
By: J.W. Ocker
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States… read more
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- nonfiction
- folklore
- history
22. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
By: Tori Bovalino
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more
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"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
23. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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- historical
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
24. Not Forever, But For Now
By: Chuck Palahniuk
2.98
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of profess… read more
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"We're bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead."-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now
"The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who'll do the job properly."-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now
"Religion ... is merely what people invent when they wake late at night filled with ancient terror of being found out in their little nest of grasses and torn to shreds by the inevitable."-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now
25. The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America
By: Joshua Piker
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighte… read more
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26. The Boston Massacre: A Family History
By: Serena R. Zabin
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Historical accuracy and human understanding require coming down from the high ground and seeing pe… read more
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- true crime
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- nonfiction
27. Borderlands: The Ultimate Exploration of the Unknown
By: Mike Dash
3.68
Format: 544 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Explore the Borderlands...* The charred remains of Helen Conway, whose body "exploded." Was this … read more
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28. The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924
By: Benny Morris
4.10
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republ… read more
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"In his memoirs, Celal Bey recalled what it felt like to witness what were, in effect, death marches. “I was like a person sitting beside a river,"-Benny Morris, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924
29. The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf
By: Linda S. Godfrey
3.96
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In the early 1990s, the small town of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, made national headlines with reports of s… read more
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- history
30. The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster
By: Brian Regal
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born of colonial times that… read more
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- folklore
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31. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust
By: Jeffrey Herf
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention for the past sixty years. The exte… read more
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