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Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah (Jewish Lives)

By Biale, David

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

By Michelle Goldberg

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

By Norman Mailer

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

The Men Who Ruled India

By philip mason

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

By Phillip Seib

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

By Melissa Fleming

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

By Jamie Carragher

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By Bryan Stevenson

The Wright Brothers

By David McCullough

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

By Mary V Dearborn

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

By Amin, Nathen

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

By Philippe Costamagna, Frank Wynne

Walt Disney: The Biography

By Gabler, Neal

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

By Nerburn, Kent

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

By Northup, Solomon

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

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

By Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life (Ackroyd's Brief Lives)

By Ackroyd, Peter

Obama: An Intimate Portrait: The Historic Presidency in Photographs

By Souza, Pete