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Broadcasts From the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War

By Phillip Seib

Walt Disney: The Biography

By Gabler, Neal

The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art

By Philippe Costamagna, Frank Wynne

Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick

By Amin, Nathen

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

By Mary V Dearborn

The Wright Brothers

By David McCullough

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By Bryan Stevenson

The Greatest Games: The ultimate book for football fans inspired by the #1 podcast

By Jamie Carragher

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

By Melissa Fleming

Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

By Nerburn, Kent

The Men Who Ruled India

By philip mason

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

By Norman Mailer

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

By Michelle Goldberg

I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad

By Souad Mekhennet

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Caroline Fraser

His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

By Jon Meacham

Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)

By Northup, Solomon

Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah (Jewish Lives)

By Biale, David

The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation

By Maimon, Solomon, Melamed, Yitzhak Y., Socher, Abraham, Reitter, Paul, Freudenthal, Gideon

Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency (Bill O'Reilly's Killing)

By O'Reilly, Bill, Dugard, Martin

Diana: Closely Guarded Secret

By Wharfe, Ken, Jobson, Robert

The Wright Brothers

By McCullough, David

History's People: Personalities and the Past (CBC Massey Lectures)

By Macmillan, Margaret

Love and War

By Hewitt, James

"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

By Annette Gordon-reed, Peter S. Onuf

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

By Dalrymple, WILLIAM

The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

By Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama Martin

Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

By Peter Furtado