Jack: A Life Like No Other
By: Geoffrey Perrett
3.85
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Seven Wonders (Ancient World, #1)
By: Steven Saylor
3.82
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
The year is 92 B.C. and the youthful Gordianus has just turned eighteen, and is about to embark on … read more
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2. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
By: Neil Sheehan
4.24
Format: 896 pages, Paperback
This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illu… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
"Malcolm Browne managed to take a photograph of Arnett [AP's Peter Arnett] standing behind Halberstam for protection a moment later, just before another plainclothesman sneaked up behind Browne and sm…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"Lieutenant Calley, who herded many of his victims into an irrigation ditch and filled it with their corpses, was the only officer or soldier to be convicted of a crime. He was charged with personally…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"The monks fought back in a Vietnamese way. On the morning of June 11, 1963, a seventy-three-year-old monk named Quang Duc sat down in the middle of a Saigon intersection a few blocks from Ambassador …"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
"He had scribbled a note in pencil giving Patton authority to assume command of the four American divisions in Tunisia the moment he landed there, and Patton had taken off again directly for the front…"-Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
3. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
By: Erik Larson
4.05
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resi… read more
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- american history
- nonfiction
- biography
- history
"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself."-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
"No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burl…"-Erik Larson, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
4. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Robert F. Kennedy
3.60
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over it… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
5. These Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie
By: Christopher Andersen
4.15
Format: 333 pages, ebook
#1 New York Timesbestselling biographer "Christopher Andersen has a real track record when it comes… read more
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- history
- biography
- politics
- presidents
- nonfiction
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X
4.36
Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"We all like chicken"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
7. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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8. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror Half a century ago, the United States overthrew … read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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10. Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul
By: Kevin Toolis
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle agai… read more
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11. John Adams
By: David McCullough
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more
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12. Rules of Civility
By: Amor Towles
2.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village… read more
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13. The Kennedy Brothers : The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
By: Richard D. Mahoney
4.34
Format: 592 pages,
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14. The President Is Missing
By: Bill Clinton
3.85
Format: 513 pages, Kindle Edition
President Bill Clinton and bestselling novelist James Patterson have written a spellbinding thrille… read more
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- politics
"The media knows what sells—conflict and division. It’s also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sne…"-Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing
15. The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
By: H.W. Brands
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of Gen… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
16. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.37
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)
By: Michael Connelly
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling … read more
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18. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By: Jon Meacham
4.46
Format: 676 pages, Hardcover
The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- presidents
- nonfiction
19. The Nazis Knew My Name
By: Magda Hellinger
4.40
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The “thought-provoking…must-read” (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped ) memoir by a Holoca… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
20. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
21. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
By: Jeremy Dronfield
4.45
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The #1 Sunday Times bestseller—a remarkable story of the heroic and unbreakable bond between a fath… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"The Stair of Death was the epitome of SS thinking — why install a more efficient mechanical conveyor when criminal and Jewish labour was so cheap and the process so satisfyingly punishing?"-Jeremy Dronfield, The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
22. Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
By: Dan Abrams
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher bring to … read more
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- biography
- history
- politics
- presidents
- nonfiction
23. April 1945: The Hinge of History
By: Craig Shirley
3.65
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling accou… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power
By: Greg Bluestein
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turne… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
25. Jack: A Life Like No Other
By: Geoffrey Perrett
3.85
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Previous biographies of John F. Kennedy have been based almost entirely on newspaper files and pers… read more
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- history
- politics
- presidents
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