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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation …

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Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career

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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Ric…

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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth wa…

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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs …

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Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument …

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Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes.

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It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on…

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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America—and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble…

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The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer

The shocking true-crime story of a Texas border patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occur…

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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations, Bronze Medal
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A Responsible Statecraft best foreign policy book of 2023

A deeply researched investigation that…

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic world of drug use in the Third Reich. There have been other books on Dr Morell's cocktail of treatme…

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Burmese Days

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Orwell's book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for…

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Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.

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