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A Fever in the Heartland : The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Egan, TimothyPenguin Publishing Group 2023NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Review of Books Best B...
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A Visible Man : A Memoir
Enninful, EdwardPenguin Publishing Group 2022From one of our culture's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers. When Edward Enninful became the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few in the world...
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The Twilight World : A Novel
Herzog, WernerPenguin Publishing Group 2022The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. In his first novel, Herzog tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island...
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Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents
Wilkerson, IsabelRandom House Publishing Group 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garn...
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Hidden Valley Road : Inside the Mind of an American Family
Kolker, RobertKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family...
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The Splendid and the Vile : A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Larson, ErikCrown 2020#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring...
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The Mosquito : A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
Winegard, Timothy C.Penguin Publishing Group 2019**The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* Finalist for the Lane Anderson Award Finalist for the RBC Taylor Award “Hugely impressive, a major work.”—...
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The Source of Self-Regard : Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Morrison, ToniKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2019Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9...
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The Soul of America : The Battle for Our Better Angels
Meacham, JonRandom House Publishing Group 2018#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in o...
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The Future Is History : How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Gessen, MashaPenguin Publishing Group 2017WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED...
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Radical Dharma : Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
williams, Rev. angel Kyodo; Owens, Lama Rod; Syedullah, JasmineNorth Atlantic Books 2016Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call...
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The New Tsar : The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Myers, Steven LeeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2015As the world struggles to confront a bolder Russia, the importance of understanding the formidable and ambitious Vladimir Putin has never been greater. This gripping narrative of P...
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Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption
Stevenson, BryanRandom House Publishing Group 2014#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clario...
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Princesses Behaving Badly : Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
McRobbie, Linda RodriguezQuirk Books 2013These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . . Pop history meets a funny, feminist point...
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Amsterdam : A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Shorto, RussellKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amste...
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Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Larson, ErikKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The De...
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Cosmos
Sagan, CarlRandom House Publishing Group 2011RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world in...
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Unbroken : A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Hillenbrand, LauraRandom House Publishing Group 2010#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption. “Extr...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berendt, JohnKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that m...
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The Lost City of Z : A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Grann, DavidKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie...