Browsing: History

Colonial

One Small Candle

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A New York Times bestselling historian delivers an absorbing chronicle of the Pilgrims’ first year in Plymouth, featuring vivid portraits of colony leaders and striking accounts of their trials and triumphs.

Biographies and Memoirs

Murder in Little Egypt

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This “terrifying” New York Times bestseller (Kirkus Reviews) recounts the story of Dr. John Dale Cavaness — a respected physician accused of murdering his son in cold blood — and the small town that couldn’t see a killer in their midst. A “riveting, historical true crime account” (Publishers Weekly).

20th Century

Truman

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The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters — Roosevelt,…

Bestsellers

A Train in Winter

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In the midst of World War II, hundreds of women from the French Resistance were sent to Nazi death camps. Here are their stories of courage, friendship, and survival. A New York Times bestseller hailed as “inspiring and fascinating” (People).

Army

First They Killed My Father

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Five-year-old Loung’s life was shattered when the Khmer Rouge stormed into Phnom Penh, tearing her family apart. In this gripping memoir that inspired the critically acclaimed film, Loung tells her story of surviving one of the 20th century’s most brutal dictatorships. “This powerful account is a triumph” (Publishers Weekly).

Bestsellers

Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account

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“The best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available” (The New York Review of Books): A Jewish doctor chronicles his time at Auschwitz, where he was forced to work as an assistant to the infamous Nazi scientist Josef Mengele. A New York Times bestseller with over 8,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads.