Everything You Have Told Me Is True: The Many Faces of Al Shabaab
By: Mary Harper
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Al Shabaab is one of the century’s most successful violent jihadist movements. It has governing pow…
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1. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
By: Jason K. Stearns
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations… read more
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"As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the grea…"-Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
2. Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
By: Dennis Lehane
4.17
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Bos… read more
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"But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that bec…"-Dennis Lehane, Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
3. Washington: A Life
By: Ron Chernow
4.16
Format: 904 pages, Hardcover
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more
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"Many mickles make a muckle."-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
4. Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
By: Michael V. Hayden
3.82
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, demonstrating in a tim… read more
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5. Turkey: A Modern History
By: Erik-Jan Zürcher
3.87
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
This revised edition builds upon and updates the twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation i… read more
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6. To Have and Have Not
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.52
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more
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"He was mad and plenty brave."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
7. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
8. The Orchard of Lost Souls
By: Nadifa Mohamed
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of the acclaimed Orange-longlisted Black Mamba Boy. I… read more
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9. In Dubious Battle
By: John Steinbeck , None
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
This 1936 novel--set in the California apple country--portrays a strike by migrant workers that met… read more
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10. 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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11. A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway , نجف دریابندری
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the war to end all wars. He volunteered for ambulance serv… read more
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12. The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
By: Daniel Coyle
4.11
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
An essential book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides readers with a … read more
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13. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
14. Seveneves
By: Neal Stephenson
4.50
Format: None pages,
What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time b… read more
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15. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
16. 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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17. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
18. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
19. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
20. The Devil's Hand (Terminal List, #4)
By: Jack Carr
4.45
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
It’s been 20 years since 9/11. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and em… read more
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21. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
22. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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23. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
24. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
25. A Room Called Earth
By: Madeleine Ryan
3.69
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young woman, whose radical perspective illuminates a … read more
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"Dancing in the rain doesn’t “make sense"-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
"Everything comes alive when I'm technically by myself."-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
"I just like having something edible to look forward to."-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
"It's strange to think that we're all here because someone wasn't killed at some point."-Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth
26. Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
By: Ric Prado
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Explosive National Bestseller A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil … read more
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27. The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and… read more
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28. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the univer… read more
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"People outgrow me,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"I don’t even think about you,"-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"Per-haps every can of cashews has a fake snake lurking, but you keep opening them, stupidly, because in your heart of hearts you still believe in cashews."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
"I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person."-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
29. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
By: Henry Sanderson
4.12
Format: 304 pages, ebook
'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new w… read more
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30. Everything You Have Told Me Is True: The Many Faces of Al Shabaab
By: Mary Harper
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Al Shabaab is one of the century’s most successful violent jihadist movements. It has governing pow… read more
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31. A Modern History of the Somali (Eastern African Studies)
By: I.M. Lewis
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisat… read more
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