Summer of '49 (Perennial Classics)David Halberstam★★★★★4.5(801)David Halberstam's New York Times bestselling classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through...
Summer of '49David Halberstam★★★★★4.5(801)From Library Journal This book is ostensibly about the pennant race between the Yankees and Red Sox that year and the...
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to CarnismJohn Robbins★★★★★4.5(778)From Publishers Weekly Despite a penchant for melodrama, Joy ( Strategic Action for Animals ) offers an absorbing...
The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder CupJohn Feinstein★★★★★4.5(718)One of Golf Digest 's Best Books of the Year"Richly detailed and entertaining. . . .xa0Feinstein captures the...
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's IndependenceCarol Berkin★★★★★4.5(687)From Publishers Weekly Confronting "the gender amnesia that surrounds the American Revolution," historian Berkin ( A...
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in MinnesotaShannon Gibney★★★★★4.5(656)Review “Sun Yung Shin has brought together a collection of passionate literary warriors whose fierceness is equaled...
Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New HampshireNicholas S. Howe★★★★★4.5(580)¿Howe tells the stories straightforwardly, deftly blending in the historical and geographical information needed to...
The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America (P.S.)Walter R. Borneman★★★★★4.5(570)About the Author Walter R. Borneman is the author of Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land , 1812: The War That Forged a Nation ,...
Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay WashingtonJames Kirchick★★★★★4.5(517)“ Secret City by James Kirchick, is a sprawling and enthralling history of how the gay subculture in Washington,...
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's HurricanesEric Jay Dolin★★★★★4.5(497)A] lively chronicle of five tempestuous centuries . . . Where A Furious Sky is most compelling is in its often...
A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One HundredGeorge F. Will★★★★★4.5(493)From Booklist Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, turns 100 this season. Will, a lifelong Cubs fan originally from...
The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver MineGregg Olsen★★★★★4.5(437)From Publishers Weekly The 1972 fire at Idaho's Sunshine silver mine was one of America's worst mine disasters, with 91...
Rising: Dispatches from the New American ShoreElizabeth Rush★★★★★4.5(394)Praise for Elizabeth Rush’s Rising “A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas,...
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of EqualityDanielle S. Allen★★★★★4.5(387)The book is a tour de force of close textual analysis." ― Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books "Our Declaration...
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City BombingLou Michel★★★★★4.5(376)The book is history. Michel and Herbeck have done us all a service." (New York Newsday)"Probably the best recounting of...
Pearl: You are Cleared to LandDeanna Edens★★★★★4.5(341)About the Author Deanna Edens currently lives by a beautiful lake in Michigan, and is a native West Virginian. She is...
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great DepressionJim Powell★★★★★4.5(306)From the Inside Flap "Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring the American economy after the disastrous...
When Evil Came to Good Hart, 10th Anniversary EditionMardi Link★★★★★4.5(297)“What makes this book more than the sum of its parts is Link's exploration of the nature of evil and her comments on...
The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian WarFred Anderson★★★★★4.5(290)Fred Anderson is Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder. His other...
Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands: The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action During the 1982 ConflictRod Boswell★★★★★4.5(290)About the Author Captain Rod Boswell, MBE, the commander of the Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre of the Royal Marines...
Daniel Boone's Own Story & The Adventures of Daniel BooneDaniel Boone★★★★★4.5(288)A legend in his own lifetime, Daniel Boone (1734–1820) was among the country's first folk heroes. The hunter and...
The Myth of the Holy CowD. N. Jha★★★★★4.5(283)“A well-argued and soundly documented study...” ( Choice )“Not since Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses ... has a...
All My Patients Kick and Bite: More Favorite Stories from a Vet's PracticeD.V.M. Jeff Wells★★★★★4.5(279)Veterinarian Wells returns with another collection of warm, humorous tales of the animals he treats and the people who...
Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago MobJeff Coen★★★★★4.5(278)A] revealing, shocking book . . . superbly crafted." —Publishers Weekly "A telling look inside the twisted world of...