A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic account of the most devastating battle of the Civil War, and its far-reaching consequen…
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1. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
2. Now in November
By: Nancy Hoffman , Josephine Winslow Johnson
3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more
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3. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
3.74
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more
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4. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
5. 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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- civil war
- history
"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
6. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- history
7. Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
By: Alex Kershaw
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of… read more
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8. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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9. Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You've Had a Lucky Life
By: Joseph Epstein
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the l… read more
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10. Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War
By: Jonathan Dimbleby
4.48
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the Soviet victories of 1944 The year 1944 was the turning point of World … read more
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11. American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again
By: Yuval Levin
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic c… read more
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12. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
13. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
4.27
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more
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14. A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic account of the most devastating battle of the Civil War, and its far-reaching consequen… read more
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- history
15. Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
By: Dan Jones
4.61
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unpa… read more
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16. Breaking Rules (Sam Mason Dog Mystery #8)
By: L. A. Dobbs
4.51
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
"There's a body under the ice..." Sam Mason faces a chilling discovery that plunges him and his te… read more
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17. Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
By: Theodore H. Schwartz
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a mus… read more
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18. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
By: Wright Thompson
4.51
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from aroun… read more
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19. The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy
By: James G. Stavridis
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling former NATO commander comes a riveting historical novel that ch… read more
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20. Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn
By: Christopher Cox
4.18
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A timely reassessment of Woodrow Wilson and his role in the long national struggle for racial equal… read more
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21. Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
By: Richard Munson
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country. Benjamin Fran… read more
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