History and Current Events

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Updated February 20, 2026
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Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection
Green, John
Paper Book
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! . #1 Washington Post bestseller! . #1 Indie Bestseller! . USA Today Bestseller! 'Earnest and empathetic.' - New York Times Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu-manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of...
Original sin : President Biden's decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again
Tapper, Jake
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 The damning inside story of Joe Biden's decline while in office - and the desperate...
Abundance
Klein, Ezra
Paper Book
It's time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - we must abandon fearmongering and embrace visionary action.
Inventing the Renaissance : myths of a golden age
Palmer, Ada
Paper Book
The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years,...
Dinner with King Tut : how rogue archaeologists are re-creating the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of lost civilizations
Kean, Sam
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2026 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award | Winner of the Non-Obvious Book Award's Most Original Book of the Year LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | INDIE BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 | Smithsonian's Top...
King of kings : the fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian revolution and the unmaking of the modern Middle East
Anderson, Scott
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW STATESMAN, ATLANTIC AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A brilliant tale of greed, paranoia and hubris... a good place to start for anyone seeking to understand the current crisis'...
The fifteen murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America
Geroux, William
Paper Book
On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Department of War built hundreds of POW camps in the United States. Ardent Nazis in the camps attacked fellow Germans they deemed disloyal. Fifteen were sentenced to death for acts of murder. German authorities condemned fifteen American POWs to...
The Mesopotamian riddle : an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing
Hammer, Joshua
Paper Book
An "adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike" (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass...
The devil reached toward the sky : the making & unleashing of the atomic bomb by the people who were there
Graff, Garrett M.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE 'MASTERPIECE' COMPLETE ORAL HISTORY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB - BY A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST 'Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga's surreal combination of...
Goliath's curse : the history and future of societal collapse
Kemp, Luke
Paper Book
A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. ** FEATURED IN THE NEW BBC SERIES CIVILISATIONS: RISE AND FALL ** ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **<...
Propaganda girls : the secret women of World War II intelligence
Rogak, Lisa
Paper Book
The incredible untold story of four women who helped win the second world war by generating a wave of black propaganda.
The sisterhood of Ravensbrück : how an intrepid band of Frenchwomen resisted the Nazis in Hitler's all-female concentration camp
Olson, Lynne
Paper Book
For decades after World War II, histories of the French Resistance were written almost exclusively by men and largely ignored the contributions of women. Many current overviews of the subject continue to underplay the extent and importance of women's participation in the Resistance, treating the...
Owned : how big tech billionaires on the right bought the loudest voices on the left
Higgins, Eoin (Journalist)
Paper Book
 A "devastating" (Nation) examination of how a cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape Owned is the story of the underreported and growing collusion between new wealth and...
The traitors circle : the rebels against the Nazis and the spy who betrayed them
Freedland, Jonathan
Paper Book
The library of ancient wisdom : Mesopotamia and the making of history
Wisnom, Laura Selena
Paper Book
The story of the ancient world's most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it 'A thrilling trip back to Mesopotamia, birthplace of horoscopes and algorithms ... via the abundant records they left behind, written on clay tablets... absorbing... hums with life'...
The illegals : Russia's most audacious spies and their century-long mission to infiltrate the West
Walker, Shaun (Journalist)
Paper Book
A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took decades to unravel
Allies at war : the politics of defeating Hitler
Bouverie, Tim
Paper Book
A landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing Hitler 'An astonishing achievement. Compellingly told, immensely wide-ranging and utterly fascinating ... Superb' JAMES HOLLAND ...
The beast in the clouds : the Roosevelt brothers' deadly quest to find the mythical giant panda
Holt, Nathalia
Paper Book
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2025 | A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2025 "A beautiful and powerful book." --Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt "Valuable, revelatory, and...
Entitled : the rise and fall of the house of York
Lownie, Andrew
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year for The Times, Financial Times and Waterstones 'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' CAMILLA LONG, SUNDAY TIMES 'A damning cannonball of truth through the York ramparts' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Surely has a claim to...

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