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Columbine

by Dave Cullen ...

Ten years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset."The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror ..."So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders. ... Read more

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Ten years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset."The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror ..."So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders.
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Game of Queens

The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

by Sarah Gristwood ...

"Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period." -- Alison WeirSixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power ... Read more

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"Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period." -- Alison WeirSixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power
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The Hockey 100

by The Athletic ...

Series Book 4 - Sports series
In the wake of The Athletic’s popular Football 100, Basketball 100, and Soccer 100, the world’s leading authority on sports reporting presents The Hockey 100—the comprehensive ranking and in-depth stories behind the 100 most accomplished hockey players to ever slap the puck.Ice hockey is a sport like no other. It requires its players to master the majestic finesse of figure skating, the brutal ... Read more

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In the wake of The Athletic’s popular Football 100, Basketball 100, and Soccer 100, the world’s leading authority on sports reporting presents The Hockey 100—the comprehensive ranking and in-depth stories behind the 100 most accomplished hockey players to ever slap the puck.Ice hockey is a sport like no other. It requires its players to master the majestic finesse of figure skating, the brutal
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A Flower Traveled in My Blood

The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

by Haley Cohen Gilliland ...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 • THE WASHINGTON POST’S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 • THE ATLANTIC’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025“[An] astonishing story…Powerful…Harrowing…Absorbing and lucid…You would have... ... Read more

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 • THE WASHINGTON POST’S 5 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2025 • THE ATLANTIC’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2025“[An] astonishing story…Powerful…Harrowing…Absorbing and lucid…You would have...
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul

A People's History of Afghanistan

by Lyse Doucet ...

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe story of a hotel. The story of a nation.**When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world.More than fifty years on, the ... Read more

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**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe story of a hotel. The story of a nation.**When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world.More than fifty years on, the
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Redwood

The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

by Ben Macintyre ...

From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: the untold story of a Russian double agent with a desperate secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse.“Ben Macintyre has a rare ability to turn history and espionage upside down and give us true, colorful stories that astound us as they draw us in. Redwood might be his best.”—John ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: the untold story of a Russian double agent with a desperate secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse.“Ben Macintyre has a rare ability to turn history and espionage upside down and give us true, colorful stories that astound us as they draw us in. Redwood might be his best.”—John
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The Day the World Came to Town

9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

by Jim DeFede ...

The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the AuthorWhen 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The ... Read more

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The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the AuthorWhen 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The
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Operation Paperclip

The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

by Annie Jacobsen ...

The fascinating story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51 and Biological War**.****“This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing.” ―**Boston GlobeIn the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many ... ... Read more

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The fascinating story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51 and Biological War**.****“This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing.” ―**Boston GlobeIn the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many ...
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Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings

(When) Do Leaders Matter?

by Jared Diamond ...

Can one person change the world? What qualities determine effective leadership? How do individual talent and historical circumstances combine to shape great leaders?From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,  a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter. ... Read more

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Can one person change the world? What qualities determine effective leadership? How do individual talent and historical circumstances combine to shape great leaders?From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,  a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter.
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Tower of Basel

The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

by Adam LeBor ...

A brilliant investigation into the most powerful institution you’ve never heard of.**“An absorbing and thorough examination.” —**ReutersThe Bank for International Settlements is the bank for central banks. It is one of the world’s most secretive—and most influential—global financial institutions.Created by the governors of the Bank of England and the Reichsbank in 1930 and protected by an ... Read more

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A brilliant investigation into the most powerful institution you’ve never heard of.**“An absorbing and thorough examination.” —**ReutersThe Bank for International Settlements is the bank for central banks. It is one of the world’s most secretive—and most influential—global financial institutions.Created by the governors of the Bank of England and the Reichsbank in 1930 and protected by an
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Prince Charles

The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

by Sally Bedell Smith ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “masterly account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the life and loves of King Charles III, Britain’s first king since 1952, shedding light on the death of Diana, his marriage to Camilla, and his preparations to take the throneSally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new look at the man who was the oldest heir to the throne in more ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “masterly account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the life and loves of King Charles III, Britain’s first king since 1952, shedding light on the death of Diana, his marriage to Camilla, and his preparations to take the throneSally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new look at the man who was the oldest heir to the throne in more
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The Hidden Hand

The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda

by Warren Kinsella ...

An explosive inside look into the highly-planned and well-funded global propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel and sow the seeds of antisemitism in the aftermath of October 7th.October 7th, 2023 was a truly horrific day—a day in which Israeli men, women, and children were slaughtered or kidnapped, in the most barbaric fashion possible by the Iran-backed, Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. The ... Read more

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An explosive inside look into the highly-planned and well-funded global propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel and sow the seeds of antisemitism in the aftermath of October 7th.October 7th, 2023 was a truly horrific day—a day in which Israeli men, women, and children were slaughtered or kidnapped, in the most barbaric fashion possible by the Iran-backed, Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. The
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Il coraggio delle donne

by Dacia Maraini, Chiara Valentini ...

Series series Intersezioni
"Ci chiedevamo a che punto eravamo, che giudizio dare dei vecchi e dei nuovi movimenti femminili, quante delle nostre speranze si erano realizzate e quanto restava ancora da fare. In quelle discussioni su un punto ci trovavamo pienamente d’accordo, l’ammirazione per lo straordinario coraggio di donne di ogni tempo per l’affermazione di sé stesse e per i sacrifici compiuti nel cammino di ... Read more

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"Ci chiedevamo a che punto eravamo, che giudizio dare dei vecchi e dei nuovi movimenti femminili, quante delle nostre speranze si erano realizzate e quanto restava ancora da fare. In quelle discussioni su un punto ci trovavamo pienamente d’accordo, l’ammirazione per lo straordinario coraggio di donne di ogni tempo per l’affermazione di sé stesse e per i sacrifici compiuti nel cammino di
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Double Cross

The True Story of the D-Day Spies

by Ben Macintyre ...

From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, and Rogue Heroes, a fascinating work of popular history that vividly recreates the vast web of deception spun by spies in order to conceal D-Day.On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, and Rogue Heroes, a fascinating work of popular history that vividly recreates the vast web of deception spun by spies in order to conceal D-Day.On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military achievement, it was also a
... Read more
Postwar

A History of Europe Since 1945

by Tony Judt ...

**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe**Almost a ... Read more

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**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal“Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe**Almost a
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American Prometheus (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMER

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin ...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic ... Read more

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic
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Surviving Katyn

Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

by Jane Rogoyska ...

The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnessesWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZECommitted in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story ... Read more

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The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnessesWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZECommitted in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story
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Blitzed

Drugs in Nazi Germany

by Norman Ohler ...

Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...

**The sensational international bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw**The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the ... Read more

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**The sensational international bestseller on the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'Extremely interesting ... a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw**The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the
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Broadside

Halifax’s wartime pilot boat disaster

by Rick Grant ...

On a bitter winter night during the Second World War, a British freighter smashed into a Halifax Harbour pilot boat, sending nine men to their deaths. Drawing on interviews and years of meticulous research, Rick Grant uncovers the true story of what happened, and the official Canadian government cover-up that followed.But the tragedy did not end with the sinking. Families of the lost men, ... Read more

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On a bitter winter night during the Second World War, a British freighter smashed into a Halifax Harbour pilot boat, sending nine men to their deaths. Drawing on interviews and years of meticulous research, Rick Grant uncovers the true story of what happened, and the official Canadian government cover-up that followed.But the tragedy did not end with the sinking. Families of the lost men,
... Read more
Beyond the Wall

A History of East Germany

by Katja Hoyer ...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East Germany (New Republic)In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically ... Read more

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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East Germany (New Republic)In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically
... Read more
Herald of a Restless World

How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People

by Emily Herring ...

**The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought—a “fascinating biography and magnificent revival of this brilliant thinker” (Skye Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic)Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New Statesman**At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) became the ... Read more

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**The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought—a “fascinating biography and magnificent revival of this brilliant thinker” (Skye Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic)Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New Statesman**At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) became the
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The Five Ages of Antifascism

by Joseph Fronczak ...

Series series Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism
A global history of antifascism from its inception to our own times. Its inspiration, and subject of critique, though, is a work of fascist history, Robert O. Paxton's classic essay The Five Stages of Fascism. Paxton influentially studied fascism by comparing national case studies and proposing a cycle of five developmental stages through which each national fascism might progress. In this Element ... Read more

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A global history of antifascism from its inception to our own times. Its inspiration, and subject of critique, though, is a work of fascist history, Robert O. Paxton's classic essay The Five Stages of Fascism. Paxton influentially studied fascism by comparing national case studies and proposing a cycle of five developmental stages through which each national fascism might progress. In this Element
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Everything Is Possible

Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism

by Joseph Fronczak ...

The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created “the left” as we know it todayIn the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists, liberals, communists, anarchists, and others ... Read more

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The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created “the left” as we know it todayIn the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists, liberals, communists, anarchists, and others
... Read more
The Orphanage

A Novel

by Serhiy Zhadan ...

Translated by Reilly Costigan-Humes, Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler ...

Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine“A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege. . . . With a poet’s sense of lyricism . . . [Zhadan] unblinkingly reveals a country’s devastation and its people’s passionate determination to survive.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewRecalling the brutal landscape of The Road and ... Read more

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A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine“A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege. . . . With a poet’s sense of lyricism . . . [Zhadan] unblinkingly reveals a country’s devastation and its people’s passionate determination to survive.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewRecalling the brutal landscape of The Road and
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