Running Critical: The Silent War, Rickover, and General Dynamics
By: Patrick Tyler
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Based on diaries, tape recordings, confidential documents, and exclusive interviews, this expose il…
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1. Red Storm Rising
By: Tom Clancy
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Audio Cassette
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2. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
By: Sherry Sontag , Christopher Drew , Annette Lawrence Drew
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and ad… read more
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"Fuck you, God. Nothing gets through HY-80"-Sherry Sontag, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
3. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
By: Michael Pillsbury
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country… read more
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4. Once an Eagle
By: Anton Myrer
4.39
Format: 1312 pages, Paperback
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"We stand at an immense fork in the raod. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old,…"-Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle
5. Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.41
Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put… read more
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"Ahh! They're all just pins!"-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"I commend my soul to any god that can find it."-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar."-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"-Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1)
6. A Memory of Light (Wheel of Time, #14)
By: Brandon Sanderson , Robert Jordan
4.12
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
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7. The Fountainhead
By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff
3.88
Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more
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"This is pity,"-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
8. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
By: Robin Sloan
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and… read more
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9. The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference
By: Theodore Rockwell , Estate of Theodore Rockwell
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
More than anyone else, Adm. Hyman G. Rickover made nuclear power a reality. Building on the scienti… read more
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10. Death of the USS Thresher
By: Norman Polmar
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
By: Arthur Herman
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States coul… read more
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12. Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.31
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
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"GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP."-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
"Fish and company start to smell after three days."-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
"Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss."-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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13. The Cruel Sea
By: Nicholas Monsarrat
2.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
A powerful novel of the North Atlantic in World War II, this is the story of the British ships Comp… read more
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14. Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War
By: P.W. Singer , August Cole
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
What will the next global conflict look like? Find out in this ripping, near-futuristic thriller. T… read more
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15. The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4)
By: Tom Clancy
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
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16. The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year
By: Armin A. Brott
3.48
Format: 208 pages,
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17. Men, Machines, and Modern Times
By: None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwe… read more
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18. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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19. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
20. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Ardent, gregarious British naval officer Jack Aubrey is elated to be given his first appointment as… read more
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"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
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"How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?" "Everything, since he has a command and I have not."-Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
21. Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)
By: Lee Child
3.96
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” Th… read more
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22. 2054
By: Elliot Ackerman
3.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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23. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.98
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
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24. 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
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"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
25. 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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26. Once Upon a River
By: Diane Setterfield
3.95
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes pla… read more
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"They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding."-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
"A child is not an empty vessel.... to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on the…"-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
27. We Sold Our Souls
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3.73
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In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success -- but then lead singer Te… read more
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"— Do you see where I'm going with this? [ROB] — Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass. [KRIS]"-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls
"I can't believe that after a lifetime of playing metal, it turns out the world is a shitty country song."-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls
28. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
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4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics… read more
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"Diversity"-Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
29. Rodham
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
3.83
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a d… read more
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"There are two kinds of marriages: the ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not."-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham
"I've learned over many decades that people are likeliest to declare their respect when their behavior suggests the opposite."-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham
30. Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy
By: Dave Oliver
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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31. Running Critical: The Silent War, Rickover, and General Dynamics
By: Patrick Tyler
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Based on diaries, tape recordings, confidential documents, and exclusive interviews, this expose il… read more
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