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The Songlines

The Songlines

Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition: An Explorer's Guide to the World's ...

Joshua Foer & Ella Morton & Dylan Thuras

Escape From North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad

Escape From North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground ...

Melanie Kirkpatrick

The Lost Luggage Porter

The Lost Luggage Porter

Jim Stringer (3)

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My Share of the Task: A Memoir

My Share of the Task: A Memoir

Gen. Stanley McChrystal

Saltpeter: The Mother of Gunpowder

Saltpeter: The Mother of Gunpowder

Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream

Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream

Benjamin Hunnicutt

The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World

The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World

Jean Jouzel & Claude Lorius & Dominique Raynaud

August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey Into the Storm

August Gale: A Father and Daughter's Journey Into the Storm

The Great Survivors: How Monarchy Made It Into the Twenty-First Century

The Great Survivors: How Monarchy Made It Into the Twenty-First ...

Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940-1945

Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940-1945

China Goes Global: The Partial Power

China Goes Global: The Partial Power

David Shambaugh

Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived

Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why ...

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation

Divided We Fail: The Story of an African American Community ...

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives

Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties

Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties

Robert Louis Peters

The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern ...

Ernest Freeberg

White Boots & Miniskirts - a True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties: The Follow Up to Bombsites and Lollipops

White Boots & Miniskirts - a True Story of Life in the Swinging ...

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws ...

The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations

The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian ...

Ervand Abrahamian

Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History

Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War ...

Angelo M. Codevilla

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California ...

Simon Winchester

Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone

Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone

Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File

Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File

Dresden: A Survivor's Story

Dresden: A Survivor's Story

Global Flu and You: A History of Influenza

Global Flu and You: A History of Influenza

The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor

The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising ...

Marguerite Holloway

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought ...

Stephen Budiansky

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos

The Perfect Meal

The Perfect Meal

Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream

Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American ...

Eric John Abrahamson

Planning a Community Oral History Project

Planning a Community Oral History Project

Barbara W. Sommer & Nancy MacKay & Mary Kay Quinlan

Community Oral History Toolkit (2)

Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942

Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942

The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000

The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations

Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations

The Last Train: A Holocaust Story

The Last Train: A Holocaust Story

Wars I Have Seen

Wars I Have Seen

Science and the American Century: Readings From "Isis"

Science and the American Century: Readings From "Isis"

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt & David Kaiser

Life After Life

Life After Life

Todd Family (1)

Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II

Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan ...

Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

Margarita Engle

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941

Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight ...

The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower

The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story Behind the Wikileaks ...

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet

Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

The Constructed Mennonite - History, Memory, and the Second World War

The Constructed Mennonite - History, Memory, and the Second ...

The Borgias: The Hidden History

The Borgias: The Hidden History

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of ...

Robert Weintraub

Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice

Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice

Marjorie Shaffer

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate

How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor ...

Sidelined: How American Sports Challenged the Black Freedom Struggle

Sidelined: How American Sports Challenged the Black Freedom ...

Simon Henderson

The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680-1715

The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680-1715

July 1914: Countdown to War

July 1914: Countdown to War

In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness ...

The Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada

Robert Hutchinson

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their ...

Marilynne K. Roach

Trial by Fury: Internet Savagery and the Amanda Knox Case

Trial by Fury: Internet Savagery and the Amanda Knox Case

Douglas Preston

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

Thomas R. Martin

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

San Diego in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to America's Finest City

San Diego in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to America's Finest City

Federal Writers Project