The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
By: Ravi Somaiya
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 2…
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1. City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from… read more
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2. In the Freud Archives
By: Janet Malcolm , A.O. Scott
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Includes an afterword by the author In the Freud Archivestells the story of an unlikely encounter a… read more
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3. Basin and Range
By: John McPhee
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book… read more
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4. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen … read more
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5. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
By: Adam Hochschild
4.21
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more
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6. 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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"..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
7. 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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8. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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9. Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy
By: Carl Sferrazza Anthony
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” — The Washington Post An illumi… read more
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10. Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
By: Lynne Olson
4.26
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against the international ca… read more
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"He demonstrated a feminism very unusual for his time by encouraging her in all her undertakings and helping her overcome the obstacles that arose with her projects,"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"Above all, she talked about the great debt she owned her parents for encouraging her to do what she wanted and for providing her with unstinting support, not to mention stellar education, that enable…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
"My parents were humanists,“ Desroches later told an interviewer. “They taught me humanist values such as respect for one another, for your neighbors, for people in general, respect for civilizations.…"-Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
11. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
By: Mandy Matney
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more
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12. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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13. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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14. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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15. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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16. Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
By: Michela Wrong
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do … read more
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17. Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
By: Keith Thomson
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirat… read more
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18. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
By: Paul Kenyon
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica i… read more
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19. The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
By: Sy Montgomery
3.77
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the ha… read more
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"Hawks do not play by our rules. You can never assume that a hawk, even one you raised from a chick, will forgive your mistakes—sometimes a single error ruptures the relationship forever. A hawk will …"-Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
20. Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
By: Nathalia Holt
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early da… read more
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"A woman who will tell you her age will tell you anything"-Nathalia Holt, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
21. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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22. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more
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23. The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
By: Simon Clark
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring, and self-made—all the qualities of a successful business lea… read more
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24. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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25. Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home
By: Roger Bennett
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture an… read more
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26. On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj
By: Richard Neville
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER - REVISITED AND REVISED Soon to be the subject of a major BBC and NETFLIX TV … read more
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27. Assassins Anonymous
By: Rob Hart
3.96
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more
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"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous
28. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
By: George Packer
4.38
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and … read more
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"The last time Holbrooke saw Blythe was in the fall of 1980, when he was in New York to finalize the divorce and to reaffirm the American vote for the Khmer Rouge seat at the United Nations. "Pol Pot,…"-George Packer, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
29. Colored Television
By: Danzy Senna
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more
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30. The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
By: Ravi Somaiya
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 2… read more
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31. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
By: Valerie Bauerlein
4.56
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more
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