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  • First Lessons: A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages (A Medieval Tale Book 1)

    • ASIN: B079318YMX
    • Manufacturer: LitHunters Ltd.

    Enjoy the complete historical romance and time travel series by a bestselling Amazon author right now!Aliya is a medical school graduate gifted with both smarts and an athletic body. Her life seems perfect…until she finds herself in a fatal car accident. Instead of dying, however, she wakes up in a completely different body in the middle of a hal... [Read More]

  • The Americans (The Kent Family Chronicles Book 8)

    • ASIN: B008E87YLS
    • Manufacturer: Open Road Media

    The conclusion of the epic historical family saga from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and “superb storyteller” (The Columbus Dispatch).  In the final installment of the Kent Family Chronicles, the remaining Kents seek to fulfill Philip Kent’s original American dream. As Gideon Kent’s health deteriorates, he fears for the future... [Read More]

  • Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage

    • ASIN: B0089EMLGK
    • Manufacturer: PublicAffairs

  • The Hamilton Affair: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1628728558
    • ISBN: 9781628728552
    • Brand: Arcade
    • Manufacturer: Arcade

    A New York Times Bestseller and one of the best historical fiction books of 2016 and 2017!“A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton…” --CosmopolitanSet against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true story of Alexander Ha... [Read More]

  • The Overstory: A Novel

    • ASIN: B073VX7HT4
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Where the Crawdads Sing

    • ASIN: B078GD3DRG
    • Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

  • American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

    • ASIN: B01L8C4WBG
    • Manufacturer: Portfolio

  • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    • ASIN: B0782X9PFP
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉThe celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian ... [Read More]

  • We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0399563091
    • ISBN: 0399563091
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is t... [Read More]

  • Before We Were Yours: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01M14UN1J
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four... [Read More]

  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0525562028
    • ISBN: 0525562028
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

  • A People's History of American Empire: The American Empire Project, A Graphic Adaptation

    • ASIN: 0805087443
    • ISBN: 0805087443
    • Brand: Metropolitan Books
    • Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books

    Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics formSince its landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom reading throughout the country, and been turned into an acc... [Read More]

  • Alexander Hamilton

    • ASIN: B000QJLQZI
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

    • ASIN: 0142405965
    • ISBN: 0142405965
    • Brand: Speak
    • Manufacturer: Speak

    "Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakab... [Read More]

  • Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

    • ASIN: 1476796629
    • ISBN: 1476796629
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by aw... [Read More]

  • The Tenth Gift: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0018SJO9G
    • Manufacturer: Crown

  • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0143110438
    • ISBN: 0143110438
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television seriesOne of five Summer 2019 reading picks by Bill Gates"The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate." —The Wall Street Journal He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to. From the New York Times bests... [Read More]

  • Classic American Short Stories (Dover Large Print Classics)

    • UPC: 800759422517
    • ASIN: 0486422518
    • ISBN: 0486422518
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Excellent examples of American fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, these stories have been chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity. Arranged in chronological order, they include Herman Melville's "Bartleby" and "The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson, as well as works by Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Mark Twain, Sarah Orne J... [Read More]

  • The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War

    • ASIN: B00VHJ9IP6
    • Manufacturer: New Word City, Inc.

    Some of America's foremost historians - including Bruce Catton, David McCullough, James McPherson and Stephen Sears – tell extraordinary stories of courage, disaster, and triumph in this collection of the best articles from sixty years of American Heritage. The Civil War posed a critical test of the young nation's character, endurance, and will t... [Read More]

  • History: A Novel

    • ASIN: B00SECZGPU
    • Manufacturer: Steerforth

    History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history - the great political events driven by men of power, wealth, and ambi... [Read More]

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