History and Current Events

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Updated March 22, 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...
2024 how Trump retook the White House and the Democrats lost America
Dawsey, Josh
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 2024, award-winning reporters Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf bring us the definitive, inside story of the most high-stakes and volatile presidential election in modern U.S. history "A well-paced, thorough and...
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 | LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER | INDIE BESTSELLER | The New Yorker's Best Books of 2025 From "one of America's smartest and most charming writers" (NPR), an archaeological romp...
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.
Running deep bravery, survival, and the true story of the deadliest submarine in World War II
Clavin, Tom
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author There was one submarine that outfought all other boats in the Silent Service in World War II: the USS Tang. Captain Richard Hetherington O'Kane commanded the submarine, which achieved its greatest success when it took on an...
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 two hundred years war : the bloody crowns of England and France, 1292-1492
Livingston, Michael
Paper Book
A new and radically original account of the longest military conflict in European history, which challenges the conventional periodisation of the 'Hundred Years War' to consider a much longer period of Anglo-French conflict. Michael Livingston argues that the English lens...
Allies at war : the politics of defeating Hitler
Bouverie, Tim
Paper Book
A Sunday Times bestselling landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace from the author of Appeasing Hitler ** WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2026** 'An astonishing achievement. Compellingly told, immensely...
Fight : inside the wildest battle for the White House
Allen, Jonathan
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Brutal." --Huffington Post "Scathing." --New York Post "[D]epicts Biden's decline in vivid detail." --Politico "So many revelations." -...
The first king of england: thelstan and the birth of a kingdom
Woodman, David.
Paper Book
From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England's founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it The First King of England is a foundational...

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