History Books - 2020 Bestsellers - Page 4

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts Cover Image

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts (Paperback)

$17.00

ISBN: 9781476777412

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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 4th, 2017

To save ancient Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven in this “fast-paced narrative that is…part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract, and part out-and-out thriller” (The Washington Post) from the author of The Falcon Thief.

In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a

The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem Cover Image

The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem (Paperback)

By Stacy Schiff

$18.99

ISBN: 9780316200592

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Published: Back Bay Books - September 20th, 2016

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.

It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy #1) Cover Image

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy #1) (Paperback)

By Rick Atkinson

$18.99

ISBN: 9781250231321

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Published: Holt Paperbacks - April 7th, 2020

Winner of the George Washington Prize
Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History
Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award
Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Pacific War Trilogy #3) (Hardcover)

By Ian W. Toll

$40.00

ISBN: 9780393080650

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 1st, 2020

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New York Times Bestseller

The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, “one of the great storytellers of War” (Evan Thomas).

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Paperback)

By S. C. Gwynne

$18.00

ISBN: 9781416591061

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Published: Scribner - May 10th, 2011

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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*

This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American We

The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism (Hardcover)

By Susan Berfield

$30.00

ISBN: 9781635572490

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - May 5th, 2020

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A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality.

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)

By Mary Beard

$17.95

ISBN: 9781631492228

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Published: Liveright - September 6th, 2016

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New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)
Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
Finalist for the

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Paperback)

By Henry Louis Gates

$20.00

ISBN: 9780525559559

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Published: Penguin Books - April 7th, 2020

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“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept.

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Paperback)

By Erik Larson

$18.00

ISBN: 9780307408877

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Published: Crown - March 22nd, 2016

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#1 New York Times Bestseller

From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Lannan Selection) (Paperback)

By Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen (Translator)

$19.95

ISBN: 9781628973303

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Published: Dalkey Archive Press - July 1st, 2019

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Paperback)

By Peter Frankopan

$20.00

ISBN: 9781101912379

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Published: Vintage - March 7th, 2017

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Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next.

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)

By Anne Applebaum

$25.00

ISBN: 9780385545808

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Published: Doubleday - July 21st, 2020

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Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Washington Post and The Financial Times

"How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document . . . is Applebaum's answer." —Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny

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