The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire
By: Tom Sancton
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean…
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1. Socrates: A Man for Our Times
By: Paul Johnson
4.75
Format: 2112 pages,
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2. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
By: Tony Horwitz
4.24
Format: 376 pages,
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of Ameri… read more
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3. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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4. Winter Work
By: Dan Fesperman
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, abo… read more
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5. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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6. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
By: Mary Childs
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged inv… read more
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7. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather
By: Mark Seal
4.36
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of… read more
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8. Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5)
By: Allen Eskens
4.24
Format: None pages, Audiobook
11 hours, 9 minutes Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this bre… read more
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9. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
By: Joe Pompeo
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more
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10. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
By: Steve Inskeep
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more
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"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America
11. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
By: Roseanne Montillo
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more
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12. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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13. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
By: Mark O'Connell
3.74
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more
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14. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
By: Peter Turchin
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more
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15. Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold
By: Keith Thomson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Eliza… read more
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16. Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
By: Caroline Moorehead
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influ… read more
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17. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
By: Dean Jobb
4.02
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more
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18. A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)
By: Martin Walker
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Another entertaining and enlightening entry in the Bruno, Chief of Police series, featuring an arch… read more
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19. The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire
By: Tom Sancton
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean… read more
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20. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more
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21. Superyacht Captain: Life and leadership in the world's most incredible industry
By: Brendan O’Shannassy
3.87
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
In Superyacht Captain, a professional at the zenith of one of the world's most lavish and exclusive… read more
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