The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia
By: P.J. O'Rourke
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compendium of quotes and riffs by P.J. O’Rourke on subjects ranging from government (“Giving mone…
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1. The Road to Character
By: David Brooks
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus… read more
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"... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nur…"-David Brooks, The Road to Character
"We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show up. They prov…"-David Brooks, The Road to Character
2. The Hammer of Eden
By: Ken Follett
3.60
Format: 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Hammer of Eden is a pulsating, state-of-the-art suspense thriller from master storyteller Ken F… read more
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3. Chickenhawk
By: Robert Mason
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A true story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma … read more
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4. Bad Monkey
By: Carl Hiaasen
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in w… read more
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5. This Kind of War
By: T.R. Fehrenbach
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition… read more
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6. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
7. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
By: Brad Meltzer
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more
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8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
9. 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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10. My Darkest Prayer
By: S.A. Cosby
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is rep… read more
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11. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."-Amor Towles, Table for Two
"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"-Amor Towles, Table for Two
12. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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13. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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14. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Ma… read more
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"Revolutions are birthed in conversation, argument, validation, proximity, and the look in your listener’s eye that tells you you’re on to something."-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"I'm drawn again and again to obsessives. I like them. I like the idea that someone could push away all the concerns and details that make up everyday life and just zero in on one thing - the thing th…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
"The more you invest in a set of beliefs - the greater the sacrifice you make in the service of that conviction - the more resistant you will be to evidence that suggests that you are mistaken. You do…"-Malcolm Gladwell, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
15. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
By: Kathleen Hale
3.94
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more
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16. To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment
By: Bret Baier
4.40
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Instant New York Times Bestseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Bret Baier reveals how Geo… read more
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17. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
By: Sean McFate
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Al… 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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19. Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood
By: David Mamet
3.24
Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-lo… read more
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20. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more
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21. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
By: James B. Stewart
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more
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22. Rogue Justice (Avery Keene, #2)
By: Stacey Abrams
4.02
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took… read more
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23. One Good Deed (Archer, #1)
By: David Baldacci
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
The #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces an unforgettable new character: … read more
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24. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
By: Elizabeth Strout
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more
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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)
25. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
26. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
27. War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict
By: Mick Ryan
3.94
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
War The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict provides insights for … read more
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28. To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision
By: James G. Stavridis
3.99
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
From one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure t… read more
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29. China as a Twenty First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications
By: Michael McDevitt
4.05
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is … read more
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30. Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
By: Paul Kennedy
4.12
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
In this engaging narrative, brought to life by marine artist Ian Marshall’s beautiful full-color pa… read more
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31. The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia
By: P.J. O'Rourke
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compendium of quotes and riffs by P.J. O’Rourke on subjects ranging from government (“Giving mone… read more
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