History and Current Events

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Updated April 21, 2025
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson
Ebook
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los Angeles Times). ...
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ebook
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape our realities. "Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a...
The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss
Ebook
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." --The New York Times...
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Elyse Graham
Ebook
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
John Ganz
Ebook
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024 One of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2024 Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie Bestseller...
Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
Bill O'Reilly
Ebook
Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today nonfiction bestseller! Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books...
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
John Guy
Audiobook
The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Sharon McMahon
Ebook
A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From America's favorite government teacher, a "fascinating and fun" (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves...
Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
Brian Tyler Cohen
Ebook
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Max Boot
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES * 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Washington Post * 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 Best Books of 2024: The New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, The Auburn Citizen "This elegant...

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