
December 2023
The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays
by Tom Stoppard“Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language.”—Newsweek
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November 2023
The Devil That Danced on the Water
by Aminatta Forna“Powerful. . . . At once impassioned, lucid, and understandably enraged, The Devil That Danced on the Water illuminates the troubled, tragic history of…
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June 2023
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I
by Tracy BormanAnne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history,…
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February 2023
Still Writing
by Dani Shapiro“One of those rare books that is both beautiful and useful. Still Writing is an exploration of the writing life, lit up by Shapiro’s…
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February 2022
The Good Girls
by Sonia FaleiroBy the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the…
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November 2021
Neither Snow Nor Rain
by Devin LeonardFew institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Post Office, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history.
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October 2021
The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon“This century’s most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism.”—Angela Davis
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April 2020
The Art of Political Murder
by Francisco Goldman“The Art of Political Murder is both a page-turner and a searing indictment of a corrosive brand of politics that has overwhelmed a nation…
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February 2020
El Norte
by Carrie GibsonA sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire’s Crossroads
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April 2019
Black Hawk Down
by Mark Bowden“Amazing . . . One of the most intense, visceral reading experiences imaginable. . . . The individual stories are woven together in such…
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January 2019
How to Fix the Future
by Andrew KeenAs our world continues to be fundamentally changed by the Digital Revolution, this essential book by a leading Internet commentator shows how to preserve…
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October 2018
Enemies and Neighbors
by Ian Black“Comprehensive and compelling . . . A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians.” —Sunday Times (UK)
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October 2018
The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943
by James HollandIn the second book in this masterful new history of World War II in the West, James Holland tackles the Nazi invasion of Soviet…
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April 2018
Nineteen Sixty-Eight in America
by Charles Kaiser“A splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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April 2018
Hue 1968
by Mark BowdenFrom “a master of narrative journalism” (New York Times Book Review), a riveting history of the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War.
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February 2018
Killing Pablo
by Mark Bowden“The story of how U.S. Army Intelligence and Delta Force commandos helped Colombian police track down and kill Pablo Escobar. . . . A…
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October 2017
Playing Through the Whistle
by S. L. PriceFrom a Sports Illustrated senior writer, a moving epic of football and industrial America, telling the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, its now-shuttered steel mill,…
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October 2017
The Private Lives of the Tudors
by Tracy BormanThe internationally bestselling author of Thomas Cromwell and Elizabeth’s Women takes readers behind the closed doors and into the intimate lives of the Tudor…
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September 2017
Blitzkrieg
by Lloyd ClarkFrom a well-regarded military historian, a riveting and richly detailed reassessment of one of the most shocking military victories of all time.
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May 2017
The Great Society
by Robert SchenkkanThe sequel to All the Way, which won the 2014 Tony for Best Play, The Great Society traces the remainder of LBJ’s tumultuous presidency,…
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March 2017
Washington’s Immortals
by Patrick K. O'DonnellFrom a bestselling military historian, the story of the Revolutionary War told through a band of brothers whose actions at key battles from Brooklyn…
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February 2017
The Black Calhouns
by Gail BuckleyGail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history.
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January 2017
But You Did Not Come Back
by Marceline Loridan-IvensA phenomenal success in Europe, But You Did Not Come Back is an important addition to the library of Holocaust literature—a deeply moving story…
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November 2016
The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
by James HollandThe first volume in a major, wide-ranging three-volume revisionist history of World War II in Europe, North Africa, and the Atlantic from a highly…
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June 2016
First to Fly
by Charles Bracelen FloodFrom a critically acclaimed historian, the lively story of the American pilots who defied neutrality and flew for France before the United States entered…
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June 2016
Innovative State
by Aneesh ChopraFrom the first chief technology officer of the United States, a brilliant look at our government, private sector “open innovation,” and how to tackle…
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June 2016
The Kentucky Cycle
by Robert SchenkkanA sweeping epic of three families in eastern Kentucky that spans two hundred years of American history, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, now reissued for…
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June 2016
Eccentric Orbits
by John BloomHow the largest man-made constellation in the heavens was built by dreamers in the Arizona desert, targeted for destruction by Motorola, and saved by a single Palm Beach retiree who battled the Pentagon, thirty banks, Congress, the White House, and a mysterious Arab prince to rescue the only phone that…
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April 2016
1941: Fighting the Shadow War
by Marc WortmanA thrilling exploration of the little-known history of America’s clandestine involvement in World War II prior to Pearl Harbor.
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March 2016
Liberty’s First Crisis
by Charles SlackThe tumultuous early years of the United States are brought to life in this gripping account of the Sedition Act and its victims, including…
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February 2016
Jam on the Vine
by LaShonda BarnettAn explosive debut novel that chronicles the life of a trailblazing African American woman journalist through the start of the twentieth century.
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February 2016
S O S
by Amiri BarakaThe definitive selection of Amiri Baraka’s dynamic poetry—comprising more than five decades of groundbreaking, controversial work—with new, previously unpublished, and uncollected poems.
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January 2016
The Devil Is Here in These Hills
by James GreenFrom a celebrated labor historian, the definitive chronicle of the fight for freedom by West Virginia coal miners, an important chapter in American history.
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November 2015
Empire’s Crossroads
by Carrie GibsonA gripping narrative history of the entire Caribbean, from first exploration to today, by a talented British American historian.
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October 2015
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony
by Brian MoynahanFrom Brian Moynahan, award-winning foreign correspondent and European editor with the Sunday Times, comes a brilliant work of military, political, and cultural history.
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August 2015
Selected Works
by Terrence McNallyFrom one of America’s most important contemporary playwrights, a definitive collection of work, including two never-before-published plays, interspersed with personal essays unique to this…
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July 2015
Liberty’s Torch
by Elizabeth Mitchell“Journalist Elizabeth Mitchell recounts the captivating story behind the familiar monument that readers may have assumed they knew everything about.” —Sam Roberts, New York…
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July 2015
The End of the Alphabet
by Claudia Rankine“It is not facts or events but the experiencing of them that counts here. And the writing never summarizes or reduces these to simples,…
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June 2015
Shakespeare in Love
by Tom StoppardThe long-awaited stage adaptation of the film that won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Shakespeare in Love.
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June 2015
The Trigger
by Tim Butcher“The most original of First World War centenary books. . . . A travel narrative of rare resonance and insight.” —Sunday Times (UK)
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