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An Odyssey in War and Peace: An Autobiography by Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob
by J.F.R. Jacob
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
by Ric Prado
Who By Fire: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen
by Matti Friedman
Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic
by Marina MacKay
My Mother’s War: The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Fighter Survived Three Concentration Camps
by Eva Taylor
The Greatest Escape
by Neil Churches
Stalin as Warlord
by Alfred J. Rieber
Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars
by Andrew Bacevich
Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America
by Hugh Eakin
The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound
by Aleksandr R. Luria
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus
by Xenophon
Horses Don’t Fly: A Memoir of World War I
by Frederick Libby
Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer
by Michael Mansfield
Dancing Ledge
by Derek Jarman
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship
by Martin Gilbert
The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator
by Rich Cohen
Professional Criminals of America: From Gilded Age New York
by Thomas Byrnes
Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was
by Daniel Friebe
The Albert Memmi Reader
by Albert Memmi
Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History
by Jozef Czapski
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
by Rick Emerson
American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
by Scott Higham
Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America
by Michael Benson
Madder: A Memoir in Weeds
by Marco Wilkinson
Illegally Yours: A Memoir
by Rafael Agustin
The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal
by Matthew Cole
Charles Henri Ford: Between Modernism and Postmodernism
by Alexander Howard
Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII’s Cardinal
by John Matusiak
Martyrs of Henry VIII: Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice
by John Matusiak
A Harvest of Sunflowers
by Ruth Silvestre
A House in the Sunflowers: An English Family’s Search for Their Dream House in France
by Ruth Silvestre
The Prisoner King: Charles I in Captivity
by John Matusiak
James I: Scotland's King of England
by John Matusiak
Brown Neon
by Raquel Gutiérrez
Unframed Originals: Recollections
by W. S. Merwin
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of The Rolling Stones
by Lesley-Ann Jones
A Preface to Greene
by Cedric Watts
The Saga of Sudden Sam: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Sam McDowell
by Sam McDowell
I’d Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
by Tom Segura
Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography
by Christophe Bident
A Comedian Sees the World
by Charlie Chaplin
Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe
by Donald R. Burleson
Beau Jack: The Boxing Life of Sidney Walker, Two-Time Lightweight Champion
by Robert Mullins
King Arthur: Man or Myth
by Tony Sullivan
The Mistresses of George I and II: A Maypole and a Peevish Beast
by Catherine Curzon
Daughter of the Samurai
by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
by Bertrand Russell
Ludwig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction
by Mark Evan Bonds
The Third Plantagenet: Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother
by John Ashdown-Hill
Cadwallader Colden: A Biography
by Seymour I. Schwartz
Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader
by Troy Jackson Ph.D.
And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-
by Elie Wiesel
Einstein For Dummies
by Carlos I. Calle
Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer
by David Roberts
Hawthorne: A Life
by Brenda Wineapple
1001 People Who Made America
by Alan Axelrod Ph.D.
Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
by Merle Hoffman
James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano
by Dan Bischoff
Pope Francis (Pastor of Mercy)
by Michael J. Ruszala
Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage
by Christopher Andersen
Prince William and Kate Middleton
by Chris Peacock
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
by David Browne
Goodfella: My Autobiography
by Craig Bellamy
Spencer Tracy
by James Curtis
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
by Jane Smiley
That's Another Story: The Autobiography
by Julie Walters
The Success and Failure of Picasso
by John Berger
Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story
by Antonia Felix
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester
Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
by Albert Einstein
Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
by Mitchell Zuckoff
Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson
by Randall Sullivan
John Wayne: My Father
by Aissa Wayne
A Mountain of Crumbs
by Elena Gorokhova
Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape: The Remarkable Life of Jacques Anquetil, the First Five-Times Winner of the Tour de France
by Paul Howard
Abraham Lincoln: History in an Hour
by Kat Smutz
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
by Arc Michael
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
by Jack Weatherford
The Autobiography of Leroi Jones
by Amiri Baraka
Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand
by William J. Mann
Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
Hitler
by Ian Kershaw
Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography
by Andrew Morton
My Years with General Motors
by Alfred Sloan
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
by Charles Nicholl
Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball
by Stefan Kanfer
Alex Ko: From Iowa to Broadway, My Billy Elliot Story
by Alex Ko
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
by Joyce A. Tyldesley
The Killing of Crazy Horse
by Thomas Powers
Glitter and Glue
by Kelly Corrigan
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519
by Christopher Hibbert
Catherine the Great
by Simon Dixon
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
by Charles R. Cross
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
by Alex von Tunzelmann
Shakespeare's Theatre: A History
by Richard Dutton
A. Lincoln: A Biography
by Ronald C. White Jr.
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
by Thomas Levenson
Henry Clay: The Essential American
by David S. Heidler
Life Itself
by Roger Ebert
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by Janet Wallach
The Forgotten Soldier
by Guy Sajer
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by H.W. Brands
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
by Sam Maggs
The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor
by Martijn Icks
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Caroline Alexander
The Queen: History In An Hour
by Sinead Fitzgibbon
Michael O'Leary: A Life In Full Flight
by Alan Ruddock
Pope Joan
by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
by Andrea di Robilant
The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army
by Greg Jaffe
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
by T.J. Stiles
FDR
by Jean Edward Smith
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America
by Gus Russo
David Crockett: The Lion of the West
by Michael Wallis
JFK: History in an Hour
by Sinead Fitzgibbon
The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age
by H.W. Brands
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
by Scott Miller
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
by Mark Lee Gardner
George Washington: History in an Hour
by David B. McCoy
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
by G.J. Meyer
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
by Howard Zinn
Churchill: History in an Hour
by Andrew Mulholland
Report from the Interior
by Paul Auster
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