GOMORRAH: A PERSONAL JOURNEY INTO THE VIOLENT INTERNATIONAL EMPIRE OF NAPLES' ORGANIZED CRIME SYSTEM
The basis of the Sundance TV series Gomorrah A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto...
BARRACOON: THE STORY OF THE LAST SLAVE
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children...
ZEROZEROZERO: LOOK AT COCAINE AND ALL YOU SEE IS POWDER. LOOK THROUGH COCAINE AND YOU SEE THE WORLD.
An electrifying, internationally bestselling investigation of the global cocaine trade now a series on Prime Video starring Andrea Riseborough, Dane...
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BUTCHERING ART: JOSEPH LISTER'S QUEST TO TRANSFORM THE GRISLY WORLD OF VICTORIAN MEDICINE
Written by Fitzharris, Lindsey
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly
DUNKIRK: THE HISTORY BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Written by Levine, Joshua
New York Times BestsellerThe epic true story of Dunkirk--now a major motion picture, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy, and Mark Rylance
LADY KILLERS: DEADLY WOMEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY
Written by Telfer, Tori
Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column "Lady Killers," this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.
WORST HARD TIME: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE GREAT AMERICAN DUST BOWL
Written by Egan, Timothy
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.
BOLD AND DANGEROUS FAMILY: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF AN ITALIAN MOTHER, HER TWO SONS, AND THEIR FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM
Written by Moorehead, Caroline
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
HUNTING EL CHAPO: THE THRILLING INSIDE STORY OF THE AMERICAN LAWMAN WHO CAPTURED THE WORLD'S MOST WANTED DRUG LORD
Written by Century, Douglas
A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller--soon to be a major motion picture from Sony--chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo--the world's most wante
SABOTEUR: THE ARISTOCRAT WHO BECAME FRANCE'S MOST DARING ANTI-NAZI COMMANDO
Written by Kix, Paul
In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II--Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur--and his daring exploits as a résistant trained by Britain's Special Operations Exec
1917: VLADIMIR LENIN, WOODROW WILSON, AND THE YEAR THAT CREATED THE MODERN AGE
Written by Herman, Arthur
How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies--a change that would go on to kill millions?
STORY OF THE JEWS VOLUME ONE: FINDING THE WORDS 1000 BC-1492 AD
Written by Schama, Simon
In this magnificently illustrated cultural history--the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews--Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day.
STORY OF THE JEWS VOLUME TWO: BELONGING: 1492-1900
Written by Schama, Simon
A riveting picture, generously rendered, of the stubborn, argumentative miracle of Jewish survival against the odds... Schama has made an eloquent and a far-reaching case for why Jews needed a small piece of earth they could call home." -- The New York Times Book Review
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