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Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

Buddy Valastro

From Publishers Weekly Best known on TLC cable as the Cake Boss, Valastro shares recipes and a sometimes treacly tale...

Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Revised and Expanded (Series on Latin American Studies)

Stephen Kinzer

“Schlesinger and Kinzer have done the greatest service to truth and justice by presenting the untold story of the CIA...

For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice

Howard Schultz

“These stories leave the reader with a profound sense of [our troops’] selfless sacrifice and, sadly, a profound...

American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857

Sally Denton

From Publishers Weekly Like September 11, 2001, another September 11, in 1857, reverberates in American history as a...

The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present

Toby A. H. Wilkinson

From Booklist A descriptive descent of the Nile, from Aswan to Cairo, Wilkinson’s travelogue fascinatingly blends the...

National Geographic The Greeks: An Illustrated History

Diane Harris Cline

About the Author DIANE CLINE is an associate professor of history and classics and an affiliated faculty member of the...

The Hunt for History: On the Trail of the World's Lost Treasures—from the Letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret Recordings Onboard JFK's Air Force One

Nathan Raab

“Raab's enthusiasm for the chase [is] palpable in this diverting account of treasure hunting in the fast lane—a...

Atlas of the Eastern Front: 1941–45 (General Military)

Robert Kirchubel

This volume is a fine, detailed visual reference to one of the darkest times and places to have ever been a human being...

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

Eamon Duffy

This book will afford enjoyment and enlightenment to layman and specialist alike. Duffy sweeps the reader along through...

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup (1808–c.1864-75) was a free-born African American from Saratoga Springs, New York, who was kidnapped...

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

From Library Journal Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western...

The Lessons of History

Will Durant

The Durants' masterpiece belongs in any home library and occupies a shelf in many." --Dana D. Kelley, Arkansas...

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Ian Mortimer

From Publishers Weekly In this compelling volume, Medieval history expert Mortimer (The Fears of Henry IV) transports...

Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

Chʻŏr-hwan Kang

A chilling testimony...[It] freezes the heart and seizes the soul." -- Kirkus Reviews Kang Chol-hwan lives and works in...

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Joseph J. Ellis

The Wall Street Journal “The dissenters—George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison—faced...

The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb

Neal Bascomb

A New York Times Espionage Bestseller "Weaving together his typicallyxa0intense research and a riveting narrative, Neal...

The Monk of Mokha

Dave Eggers

“Exquisitely interesting… This is about the human capacity to dream—here, there, everywhere.” —Gabriel...

Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base

Annie Jacobsen

Cauldron-stirring. [AREA 51] is not science fiction. It is an assertive account, revelatory ... Ms. Jacobsen has put...

This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

T. R. Fehrenbach

“Immensely readable.”— New York Times “A comprehensive and impressively written history of the Korean...

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)

Thomas Cahill

In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known "hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to...

How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

Bart D. Ehrman

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In...

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. This splendid commemoration of the war...

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

Scott Zesch

From Booklist On New Year's Day, 1870, Adolph Korn, the author's ancestor and son of German immigrants, was captured by...

The Boys of ’67: Charlie Company’s War in Vietnam (General Military)

Andrew A. Wiest

“Wiest's use of personal interviews and letters home put a personal touch on the book. I felt a growing sense of...