Presidents in Crisis: Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama
By: Michael K. Bohn
3.83
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When Am…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
3.98
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and… read more
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"But a choice made is made, it cannot be changed. Things happened as they happened. It is possible to imagine all kinds of different routes across the continent, or a better way for the government to …"-Stephen E. Ambrose, Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
3. The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
By: Kate Andersen Brower
3.81
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable history with elements of both In the President’s Secret Service and The Butler, The Re… read more
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4. Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
By: Miklós Nyiszli , Bruno Bettelheim , Tibère Kremer , Richard Seaver
4.31
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwi… read more
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"We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom."-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
"Los médicos entienden perfectamente el destino cruel que les ha tocado y son conscientes de la imposibilidad de escapar, pero a pesar de ello se dedican a ayudar, con absoluta abnegación, a los que e…"-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
"The bodies were not lying here and there throughout the room, but piled in a mass to the ceiling. The reason for this was that the gas first inundated the lower layers of air and rose slowly towards …"-Miklós Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
5. Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill
4.27
Format: 451 pages, Hardcover
A rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling a… read more
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"If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business."-Clint Hill, Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
6. The Sinking of the Bismarck: The Deadly Hunt
By: William L. Shirer
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Bismarck was the greatest warship ever built. But the Allies had to sink it - or risk losing th… read more
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7. The Fall of Japan
By: William Craig
3.92
Format: 292 pages,
The Fall of Japan tells the breathtaking story of the last weeks of the war in the Pacific, and the… read more
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8. Berlin 1961
By: Frederick Kempe
4.00
Format: 10 pages,
A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and i… read more
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9. Within Arm's Length: A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President
By: Dan Emmett
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A rare inside look at the Secret Service from an agent who provided protection worldwide for Presid… read more
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10. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
By: Noah Feldman
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicia… read more
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11. Wilson
By: A. Scott Berg
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author A. Scott Berg comes the definitiv… read more
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12. Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish
By: Misty Griffin
3.93
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish, it was the beginning o… read more
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13. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
By: Joseph J. Ellis
2.80
Format: None pages,
Informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the… read more
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14. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
By: Timothy J. Keller
4.42
Format: 139 pages, Hardcover
Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a … read more
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"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
15. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
By: John Le Carré , Ben Macintyre
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century… read more
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16. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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17. Fourteen Days
By: Margaret Atwood
3.23
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more
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18. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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19. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
By: Collin Hansen
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more
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20. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life
By: Steven Bartlett
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more
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21. Kill Your Husbands
By: Jack Heath
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect f… read more
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"Burn your bras. Kill your husbands."-Jack Heath, Kill Your Husbands
22. The 6 Types of Working Genius
By: Patrick Lencioni
4.15
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that w… read more
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23. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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24. Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric
By: Thomas Gryta
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
How could General Electric—perhaps America’s most iconic corporation—suffer such a swift and sudden… read more
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25. Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
By: Robert Hardman
3.92
Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition
The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller‘Fascinating . . . The book everyone is talking about’ – Daily Mai… read more
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"He's a very charming person - very warm and very friendly...I admire the way he interacts with people. That, to me, speaks to the measure of our King."-Robert Hardman, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
26. To Wake the Giant: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
By: Jeff Shaara
4.43
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara takes on Pearl Harbor, the world-changing attack that… read more
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27. The Sisters (Cormac Reilly, #.5)
By: Dervla McTiernan
3.61
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
3 hours, 8 minutes Two sisters climbing the ranks of Dublin’s criminal justice system. A murder … read more
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28. John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
By: Dan Abrams
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening story of America on the edge of revolution, revealing the life of young John Adams a… read more
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29. Roaring Back: The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods
By: Curt Sampson
3.57
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
The incredible true story of Tiger Woods’s dramatic return to glory at the 2019 Masters following h… read more
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30. Presidents in Crisis: Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama
By: Michael K. Bohn
3.83
Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition
Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When Am… read more
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31. War
By: Bob Woodward
4.43
Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more
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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."-Bob Woodward, War
"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"-Bob Woodward, War
"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"-Bob Woodward, War
"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"-Bob Woodward, War
