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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 121,469 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 204,678 ratings — published 2018
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 72,964 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,556,548 ratings — published 2003
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 43,056 ratings — published 2004
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 64,070 ratings — published 2025
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 181,279 ratings — published 2018
What Is the What (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 87,805 ratings — published 2006
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 367,312 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 8,879 ratings — published 1971
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,267,710 ratings — published 1947
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,305 ratings — published 2007
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 2,029,874 ratings — published 2014
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,387,259 ratings — published 1956
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 151,094 ratings — published 1960
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 11,863 ratings — published 2003
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 14,623 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 466,077 ratings — published 1997
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 772,355 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 142,420 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 252,322 ratings — published 2005
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 37,562 ratings — published 1998
Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.63 — 375 ratings — published 2026
Biological War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published 2026
Those Who Are About to Die: A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 162 ratings — published
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 266 ratings — published 2026
The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 122 ratings — published
Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 768 ratings — published 2026
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,567 ratings — published 2025
The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2026
Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 26 ratings — published
Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 4,616 ratings — published 2006
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,650 ratings — published 2023
Adolfo Kaminsky The Forger of Paris: Authorized Biography. New and Expanded Edition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 6,698 ratings — published 2018
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 10,322 ratings — published 2007
Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 7,398 ratings — published 2025
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 653 ratings — published 2026
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,537 ratings — published 2024
The Years (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 48,622 ratings — published 2008
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,266 ratings — published 2025
Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 5,245 ratings — published 2015
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 12,037 ratings — published 2005
The Last Secrets of Anne Frank: The Untold Story of Her Silent Protector (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,615 ratings — published
The Facemaker (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 8,410 ratings — published 2022
Dawn (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 23,668 ratings — published 1960
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 4,450 ratings — published 1967
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 6,675 ratings — published 2020
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 2,413 ratings — published 2023
“The Oreo cookie invented, the Titanic sinks, Spanish flu, Prohibition, women granted the right to vote, Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic, penicillin invented, stock market crashes, the Depression, Amelia Earhart, the atom is split, Prohibition ends, Golden Gate Bridge is built, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Korean War, Disneyland, Rosa Parks, Laika the dog is shot into space, hula hoops, birth control pill invented, Bay of Pigs, Marilyn Monroe dies, JFK killed, MLK has a dream, Vietnam War, Star Trek, MLK killed, RFK killed, Woodstock, the Beatles (George, Ringo, John, and Paul) break up, Watergate, the Vietnam War ends, Nixon resigns, Earth Day, Fiddler on the Roof, Olga Korbut, Patty Hearst, Transcendental Meditation, the ERA, The Six Million Dollar Man.
"Bloody hell," I said when she was done.
"I know. It must be a lot to take in."
"It's unfathomable. A Brit named his son Ringo Starr?"
She looked pleasantly surprised: she'd thought I had no sense of humor.
"Well, I think his real name was Richard Starkey.”
― Valley of the Moon
"Bloody hell," I said when she was done.
"I know. It must be a lot to take in."
"It's unfathomable. A Brit named his son Ringo Starr?"
She looked pleasantly surprised: she'd thought I had no sense of humor.
"Well, I think his real name was Richard Starkey.”
― Valley of the Moon
“They labeled people Snowflakes and Bleeding Hearts -
Then they sent in ICE and Frozen Hearts.
But Wildfire season is coming.
Soon, ICE will melt, and hearts will burn.”
―
Then they sent in ICE and Frozen Hearts.
But Wildfire season is coming.
Soon, ICE will melt, and hearts will burn.”
―
