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  • Resolute, Revised Edition: John Franklin's Lost Expedition and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship by Sandler, Martin W.
    Martin W. Sandler

    Resolute, Revised Edition: John Franklin's Lost Expedition and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship

    Few know that the president's desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the world's most extraordinary sagas. In Resolute, noted historian Martin Sandler brings the story to light.After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic while seeking...
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  • Jordan LaHaye Fontenot

    Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie

    A compelling blend of true crime and memoir tracing the author's investigation into the kidnapping and murder of her great-grandfather in 1980s Louisiana and the reverberations on her family and community throughout the decades""Riveting and atmospheric, Home of the Happy is also a heartfelt...
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  • The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation by Baker, David
    David Baker

    The Shortest History of Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation

    From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex...
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  • Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Parenti, Michael
    Michael Parenti

    Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

    A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original...
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  • Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Pitts, Lisa Reneé
    Lisa Reneé Pitts

    Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

    Author: Lisa Reneé Pitts, Candacy TaylorISBN-10: 166519846XISBN-13: 9781665198462Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2020Format: MP3 CD
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  • Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Dunthorne, Joe
    Joe Dunthorne

    Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

    In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinary family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters...
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  • Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Risen, Clay
    Clay Risen

    Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

    As relevant as it is comprehensive, Red Scare tells the story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare--based in part on newly declassified sources--by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times reporter.The film Oppenheimer has awakened interest in this vital period of American...
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  • Golden State: The Making of California by Hiltzik, Michael
    Michael Hiltzik

    Golden State: The Making of California

    "Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation."--Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring RevolutionFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California--from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the...
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  • The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Rubenhold, Hallie
    Hallie Rubenhold

    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

    Author: Hallie RubenholdISBN-10: 166512220XISBN-13: 9781665122207Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2019Format: CDWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.70w x 1.10d
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  • In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000- Year History of American Indians by Page, Jake
    Jake Page

    In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000- Year History of American Indians

    Today, some two million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than one percent of the nation's population. Their origins have always been viewed from a 500-year-old perspective--from the point of view of the Europeans who "discovered" the New World. Yet the true story...
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  • Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Stein, Eliot
    Eliot Stein

    Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

    Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder, Stein introduces listeners to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy,...
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  • Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London by Bell, Amy Helen
    Amy Helen Bell

    Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London

    A gripping new history of London during the Blackout--revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness Fear was the unacknowledged specter haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the...
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  • Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis by Dwork, Deb?rah
    Deb?rah Dwork

    Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis

    Long before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to Prague as part of a relief effort but turned immediately to helping Jews...
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  • U.S. History 101: Historic Events, Key People, Important Locations, and More! by Sears, Kathleen
    Kathleen Sears

    U.S. History 101: Historic Events, Key People, Important Locations, and More!

    Perfect for readers of all ages, U.S. History 101 is a fact-filled and riveting introduction to the most important political events and figures from the last 300 years of our nation's history.The stories of politicos and historic events are often turned into snooze-worthy lectures...
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  • The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by James, C. L. R.
    C. L. R. James

    The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

    A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the...
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  • The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream by Savage, Jon
    Jon Savage

    The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture from the Margins to the Mainstream

    A monumental history of the gay influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979. Award-winning author Jon Savage takes us on a fast and captivating journey through the history of pop music as seen through...
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  • Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis by Shephard, Michelle
    Michelle Shephard

    Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis

    For readers of The MAGA Diaries and Hate in the Homeland, an eye-opening and crucial true story of one man risking his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States.When Scott Payne was growing up, he never envisioned a future...
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  • The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story by Parker, Richard
    Richard Parker

    The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story

    A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of North America, centuries-long hub of immigration, and underappreciated modern blueprint for a changing United...
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  • The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Hammer, Joshua
    Joshua Hammer

    The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing

    A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.It was one of history's great vanishing acts. Around 3,400 BCE--as humans were...
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  • Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel by Stohl, Margaret
    Margaret Stohl

    Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel

    Inspired by the hit podcast The Women of Marvel and cowritten by the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures, this eye-opening and engaging book celebrates the women who have helped make Marvel one of the most successful comics and entertainment companies...
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  • The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Clark, Nicola
    Nicola Clark

    The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

    Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets....
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  • How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II by O'Brien, Phillips Payson
    Phillips Payson O'Brien

    How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II

    World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to...
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  • African American History: A Very Short Introduction by Holloway, Jonathan Scott
    Jonathan Scott Holloway

    African American History: A Very Short Introduction

    What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. This book illuminates the US's core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen,...
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  • The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Franklin, Ruth
    Ruth Franklin

    The Many Lives of Anne Frank

    A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diaryIn this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929-1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of...
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  • Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Barraclough, Eleanor
    Eleanor Barraclough

    Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

    In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the Viking Age today, they...
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  • Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee by Ballantyne, Katherine J.
    Katherine J. Ballantyne

    Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee

    Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activism--and one of...
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  • Crazy Horse and Custer: Born Enemies by Nelson, S. D.
    S. D. Nelson

    Crazy Horse and Custer: Born Enemies

    In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At...
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  • Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths by Grabar, Mary
    Mary Grabar

    Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths

    The myths about Franklin Delano Roosevelt live on. For the left, FDR was a champion of the working class and the oppressed, suffering abuse as a "traitor to his class." He gave up the lifestyle of the Hudson River gentry to lead his country...
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  • Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness by Pollack, Kenneth M.
    Kenneth M. Pollack

    Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness

    Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments. Over time, soldiers, scholars, and military...
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  • Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust by Adlington, Lucy
    Lucy Adlington

    Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana...
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  • On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR by Oney, Steve
    Steve Oney

    On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR

    An epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires.Founded in 1970, NPR is America's most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed by the larger and more glamorous...
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  • Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust by Adlington, Lucy
    Lucy Adlington

    Four Red Sweaters: Powerful True Stories of Women and the Holocaust

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz tells the stories of four Jewish girls during the Holocaust, strangers whose lives were unknowingly linked by everyday garments, revealing how the ordinary can connect us in extraordinary ways.Jock Heidenstein, Anita Lasker, Chana...
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  • The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Oates, Stephen B.
    Stephen B. Oates

    The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion

    The fierce slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 and the savage reprisals that followed shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath...
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  • Gaza Faces History by Traverso, Enzo
    Enzo Traverso

    Gaza Faces History

    Is the destruction of Gaza only a consequence of the October 7, 2023 attack, or is it also the outcome of a long process of dispossession and eradication? Do Palestinians have the right to resist the occupation? Is talking about genocide anti-Semitism? Enzo Traverso...
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  • Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation by Cannell, Michael
    Michael Cannell

    Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation

    For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia. No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis Eppolito and...
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  • Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist by Munson, Richard
    Richard Munson

    Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist

    The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country. Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants. But...
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  • The Grandfather of Black Basketball: The Life and Times of Dr. E. B. Henderson by Henderson, Edwin Bancroft
    Edwin Bancroft Henderson

    The Grandfather of Black Basketball: The Life and Times of Dr. E. B. Henderson

    Dr. Edwin Bancroft Henderson was the son of working-class parents born in slavery. Henderson attended Harvard University's Dudley Sargent School of Physical Training. There he met the leaders in the new field of physical education and recognized athletics--and basketball, especially--as a public health initiative...
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  • Why We Love Coffee: Fun Facts, History, and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drink by Odello, Luigi
    Luigi Odello

    Why We Love Coffee: Fun Facts, History, and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drink

    From coffee beans to extraordinary flavors. Being hundreds of years old, coffee has influenced civilizations and inspired many makers to discover new recipes for millions to enjoy. Yet what if there was a way to experience the best natural coffee flavors in the world...
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  • Incarnations: India in Fifty Lives by Khilnani, Sunil
    Sunil Khilnani

    Incarnations: India in Fifty Lives

    Author: Sunil KhilnaniISBN-10: 1799975924ISBN-13: 9781799975922Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2016Format: CD
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  • Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families by Giesberg, Judith
    Judith Giesberg

    Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

    Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery.Of all the many horrors of slavery, the cruelest was the separation of families in...
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  • I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free by Hawkins, Lee
    Lee Hawkins

    I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free

    A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exhaustively examines his family's legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience, in this riveting memoir--a soulful, shocking, and spellbinding read that blends the raw power of Natasha Tretheway's Memorial Drive and the insights of...
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  • Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future by Mingle, Jonathan
    Jonathan Mingle

    Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future

    Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That they have the legal right to do so, whether you like it or not, because...
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  • Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Sarotte, M. E.
    M. E. Sarotte

    Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

    A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 Sarotte is the unofficial dean of 'end of Cold War' studies. . . . With her latest book, she tackles...
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  • The Great War and Modern Memory Lib/E by Fussell, Paul
    Paul Fussell

    The Great War and Modern Memory Lib/E

    Author: Paul FussellISBN-10: 1665230487ISBN-13: 9781665230483Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2018Format: CD
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  • Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal about Rising Threats to American Democracy by Heaphy, Timothy J.
    Timothy J. Heaphy

    Harbingers: What January 6 and Charlottesville Reveal about Rising Threats to American Democracy

    A crucial, clear-eyed assessment of what connects the two most influential moments of political violence in recent American history, and where we go from hereThis dramatic, revealing book offers an insider account of the planning and aftermath of the racist riot in Charlottesville on...
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  • A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Carter, Jimmy
    Jimmy Carter

    A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

    GRAMMY AWARD-WINNER FOR BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM! In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and "reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian" (Booklist). At ninety, Jimmy Carter...
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  • The Roads to Rome: A History of Imperial Expansion by Fletcher, Catherine
    Catherine Fletcher

    The Roads to Rome: A History of Imperial Expansion

    "All roads lead to Rome" is a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire--and these ancient roads continue to grip our imaginations as a physical manifestation of Rome's greatness. Over the two thousand years...
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  • Catherine De' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen by Hollingsworth, Mary
    Mary Hollingsworth

    Catherine De' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen

    During an age of heightened religious conflict, Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the center of sixteenth-century European and French politics. Daughter of Lorenzo II, the Medici ruler of Florence--and then wedded to a French prince by papal decree at the age of...
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  • Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass by Jones, Sarah
    Sarah Jones

    Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass

    In a compelling blend of personal narrative and in-depth reporting, New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones exposes the harsh reality of America's racial and income inequality and the devastating impact of the pandemic on our nation's most vulnerable people.In the tradition of Matthew...
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  • Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza by Yingst, Trey
    Trey Yingst

    Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza

    Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war, offering riveting insight and fresh facts that clarify the scope and magnitude of this latest and most dramatic outbreak in one of...
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