The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
By: Christopher Simon Sykes
3.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most r…
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1. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
By: Donald L. Miller
4.18
Format: 671 pages, Hardcover
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who bro… read more
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- history
"With the Allies on the advance nearly everywhere and invasion talk in the air, London was a welcoming place for young airmen who were taking the fight to Hitler’s doorstep. The first stop for America…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
"In an equally fought battle of attrition both sides sometimes believe they are losing. With Overlord planned for the spring of 1944, Allied leaders became increasingly worried that their air forces w…"-Donald L. Miller, Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
2. The Death of Grass
By: John Christopher
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
The Chung-Li virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvat… read more
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3. 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
4. The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
By: Marc Wortman
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history--it was the centerpiece of Gone … read more
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5. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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6. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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7. A History of the Arab Peoples
By: Albert Hourani
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, polit… read more
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8. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
By: Agatha Christie
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more
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"Don’t go,"-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
9. My Own Words
By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Mary Hartnett , Wendy W. Williams
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, en… read more
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10. Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
By: Lindsay Ellis
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government mi… read more
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"I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal."-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
"...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so cl…"-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
11. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
12. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
13. 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
14. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
15. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
16. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
17. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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- biography
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20. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
21. Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
By: Peter Zeihan
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the … read more
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"In many ways, industrialization is a straitjacket. The suite of industrial technologies improves literacy and mobility and reach and wealth and health, but without the inputs of oil, natural gas, iro…"-Peter Zeihan, Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
22. Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
By: Thomas Healy
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKis… read more
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23. The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)
By: Jonas Jonasson
3.73
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of… read more
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"Οι ερευνητές είχαν διαπιστώσει μόλις ότι το μέσο επίπεδο νοημοσύνης είχε καθοδική πορεία. Ο Άλαν διάβασε πως αυτοί που ξόδευαν πολύ χρόνο στη μαύρη πλακέτα τους έχαναν την ικανότητα του διαλόγου. Η π…"-Jonas Jonasson, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)
"Η ανθρώπινη λογική λειτουργούσε ως εξής: πάρα πολλοί θεωρούσαν εαυτούς εξτρεμιστές. Οσο οι Σουηδοί Δημοκράτες ήταν ό,τι πιο εξτρεμιστικό είχε να προσφέρει η Σουηδία, θα υπήρχαν πάντα αρκετοί που δε θ…"-Jonas Jonasson, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)
24. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
By: Simon Shuster
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more
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25. The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson
By: Nadine Dorries
3.09
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The explosive behind-the-scenes account of the plot to bring down Boris Johnson YOU THINK YOU LIVE … read more
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26. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
By: David Treuer
4.23
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more
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27. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
By: Derek Gow
3.97
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more
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28. Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
By: James Barr
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of how the U.S. supplanted Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Mi… read more
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29. I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
By: Illia Ponomarenko
4.31
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A raw, irreverent account of a young Ukrainian reporter on-the-ground as his country heroically def… read more
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- biography
- history
"So many millions of men and women, from high-ranking officials to regular folks like us, making the moral choice of not giving in to the dark—but doing what was right, no matter what."-Illia Ponomarenko, I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
30. The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
By: Christopher Simon Sykes
3.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most r… read more
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31. America’s Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States
By: Charles River Editors
4.00
Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “The … read more
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