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  • The Devils of Loudun

    by Aldous Huxley ...
    “HUXLEY'S MASTERPIECE AND PERHAPS THE MOST ENJOYABLE BOOK ABOUT SPIRITUALITY EVER WRITTEN. .”— Washington Post Book WorldAldous Huxley's "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) and gripping account of one of the strangest occurrences in history, hailed as the "peak achievement of Huxley’s career" by the New York TimesIn 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Escape Artist

    The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

    Winner of the National Jewish Book Award · New York Times Bestseller"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow<... ... Read more

    $12.49 USD $1.99 USD

  • On Freedom

    A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On TyrannyTimothy Snyder has been called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • In the Garden of Beasts

    Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

    by Erik Larson ...
    Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    An Epic Tale of Revenge and Redemption eBook

    Immerse yourself in the vivid narrative of "The Count of Monte Cristo," an enthralling eBook that encapsulates an extraordinary tale of revenge, redemption, and the indomitable human spirit. Crafted by a master storyteller, this celebrated work is a cornerstone of classic literature. "The Count of Monte Cristo" takes you through a riveting journey of Edmond Dantès, a man wrongly imprisoned, who ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage ... Hill lives on' Times Higher EducationIn 'The World Turned Upside Down' Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issues.**“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New York Times Book Review<strong... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Gay Bar

    Why We Went Out

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum *“Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson"Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing gay sex.” –New York Times Book Review**As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

    The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice SelectionAn erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review).On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • None So Blind

    by Alis Hawkins ...
    Series Book 1 - The Teifi Valley Coroner Series
    When the truth lies out of sight...West Wales, 1850. When an old tree root is dug up, the remains of a young woman are found. Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister forced home from London by encroaching blindness, has been dreading this discovery.He knows exactly whose bones they are.Working with his clerk, John Davies, Harry is determined to expose the guilty. But the investigation turns up more ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World

    by Alan Mikhail ...
    An “arresting” (New York Times Book Review) revisionist history demonstrating how Islam and the Ottoman Empire made our modern world.The history of the Ottoman Empire—once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power—has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this “original and wide-ranging” (Wall Street ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

    Series series The Political Economy of Human Rights
    Volume one of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights, is a devastating analysis of the United States government’s suppression of human rights and support of authoritarianism in Asia, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midnight in Chernobyl

    The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence WinnerOne of NPR’s Best Books of 2019Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful in... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

    by Zhuqing Li ...
    **A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024“Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book ReviewSisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.**Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • Fifth Generation Warfare

    Dominating the Human Domain

    Series series Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology
    This book outlines the concept of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) and demonstrates its relevance for understanding contemporary conflicts.Non-kinetic modes of attack and war waged by groups or non-state actors at the societal level has been termed 5GW. This book discusses the theory of generational warfare and explores the key ideas of 5GW, such as secrecy, the manipulation of proxies, the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Women of the Titanic Disaster

    Sylvia Caldwell was onboard the Titanic when it sank in 1912. As one of the disaster's survivors, she took it upon herself to write an account of what happened in the event's aftermath. Women of the Titanic Disaster details Sylvia Caldwell's journey immediately following the sinking of the Titanic, and it gives us a fresh perspective on this historic event. With a foreword by Julie Hedgepeth ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Blood, Sweat & Chrome

    The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

    by Kyle Buchanan ...
    One of Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of 2022!"New York Times journalist Kyle Buchanan details the bonkers construction of director George Miller's long-awaited and often seemingly-doomed fourth Mad Max movie via testimony from the filmmaker, Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and a host of others. The result is an epic and – when it comes to the Theron-Hardy on-set relationship – acrimonious tale no ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • The Conquest of Cool

    Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    While the youth counterculture remains the most evocative and best-remembered symbol of the cultural ferment of the 1960s, the revolution that shook American business during those boom years has gone largely unremarked. In this fascinating and revealing study, Thomas Frank shows how the youthful revolutionaries were joined—and even anticipated —by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement

    by G. C. Peden ...
    Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for military defeats in 1940? In this new account of appeasement, G. C. Peden addresses these questions and provides a comparative analysis of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Collapse

    The Fall of the Soviet Union

    A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demiseIn 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Turkey Under Erdogan

    How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West

    An incisive account of Erdoğan’s Turkey – showing how its troubling transformation may be short-livedSince coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has overseen a radical transformation of Turkey. Once a pillar of the Western alliance, the country has embarked on a militaristic foreign policy, intervening in regional flashpoints from Nagorno-Karabakh to Libya. And its democracy, sustained by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The End of Empires and a World Remade

    A Global History of Decolonization

    A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became ... Read more

    $28.99 USD