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  • Carry Me Home

    Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

    Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation."The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

    by Jeff Sharlet ...
    **A New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2023 • One of The New Republic's Best Books of 2023"A riveting, vividly detailed collage of political and moral derangement in America." —Joseph O’Neill, New York Times Book ReviewOne of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Fighting Bunch

    The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution

    by Chris DeRose ...
    New York Times –Bestselling Author: The true story of the men who brought their overseas combat experience to wage war against a corrupt political machine in their Tennessee hometown in 1946.“Doggedly researched and briskly narrated, this rousing chronicle testifies to the importance of free and fair elections.”―Publishers WeeklyBill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Palo Alto

    A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

    Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE • THE NEW REPUBLIC • DAZED • WIRED • BLOOMBERG • ESQUIRE • SALON • THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUBThe history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth).Palo ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • When the Sea Came Alive

    An Oral History of D-Day

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post • “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan ThomasFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most complete and up-to-date account of D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history and ... Read more

    Was $16.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe “paradigm-influencing” book (Christianity Today) that is fundamentally transforming our understanding of white evangelicalism in America.Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • JFK: Public, Private, Secret

    From the New York Times bestselling Kennedy historian and author of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret comes the other side of the story**—**her husband’s: JFK: Public, Private, Secret.In this deeply researched presidential biography, J. Randy Taraborrelli tells John F. Kennedy’s story in a provocative new way by revealing how public moments in his life were so influenced by private relationships ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Right Stuff

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is t****he basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part Disney+ TV mini-series.From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Millions of ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • A People's History of the United States

    by Howard Zinn ...
    THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Dereliction of Duty

    Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts ... Read more

    Was $16.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Emerald Mile

    The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

    by Kevin Fedarko ...
    From one of Outside magazine’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever through the Grand Canyon, atop the legendary Colorado River flood of 1983.In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Vietnam War

    A Military History

    “Remarkable… the best overview of America’s misadventure in Southeast Asia, and it is sure to become the standard one-volume book on the war.” – Thomas E. Ricks, New York TimesThe Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Fracture Zone

    My Return to the Balkans

    A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To ComeThe vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both cultural and topographical. And, as Simon Winchester superbly demonstrates in this intimate portrait of the region, much of the political strife of ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Lasso the Wind

    Away to the New West

    by Timothy Egan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Mountains and Plains Book Seller's Association Award"Sprawling in scope. . . . Mr. Egan uses the past powerfully to explain and give dimension to the present." --The New York Times"Fine reportage . . . honed and polished until it reads more like literature than journalism." --Los Angeles Times"They have tried to tame it, shave it, fence it, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Crack in the Edge of the World

    America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

    The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The Apple Trees at Olema

    New and Selected Poems

    by Robert Hass ...
    “No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Capital Dames

    The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868

    by Cokie Roberts ...
    In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history.With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern ... Read more

    Was $10.49 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The Run of His Life

    The People v. O. J. Simpson

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie BrittonThe definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Out Where the West Begins

    Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders

    Between 1800 and 1920, an extraordinary cast of bold innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, J. P. Morgan, and Buffalo Bill Cody—helped lay the groundwork for what we now call the American West. They were people of imagination and courage, adept at maneuvering the rapids of change, alert ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Bring the War Home

    The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

    A Guardian Best Book of the Year“A gripping study of white power…Explosive.”—New York Times“Helps explain how we got to today’s alt-right.”—Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution.Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of Vietnam veterans and disgruntled civilians who shar... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Mothman Prophecies

    A True Story

    by John A. Keel ...
    The New York Times bestseller long regarded as a classic in the literature of the unexplained—the basis of the 2002 film starring Richard Gere.“The Mothman remains a potent piece of American folklore.” —CNNWest Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare culminating in a tragedy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Truman

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • To Move the World

    JFK's Quest for Peace

    An inspiring look at the historic foreign policy triumph of John F. Kennedy’s presidency—the crusade for world peace that consumed his final year in office—by the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Civilization, Common Wealth, and The End of PovertyThe last great campaign of John F. Kennedy’s life was not the battle for reelection he did not live to wage, but the struggle for a ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Frozen in Time

    An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-LaOn November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashe ... Read more

    $1.99 USD