Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scan...
Tom MuellerFor millennia, fresh olive oil has been a necessity - for food, medicine, beauty, and religion. Today's researchers continue to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and 'extra-virgin Italian' has bec...
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so...
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations ...
Jared DiamondA brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jare...
The author looks into the history of Western Europe between 1300 and 1450, drawing parallels with the 20th century and looks into Chaucer, Boccaccio, The Hundred Years' War, pilgrimages, plagues and revolts against a poll tax, amongst...
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Ter...
David TalbotSeason of the Witch is the first book to fully capture the dark magic of San Francisco in this breathtaking period, when the city radically changed itself — and then revolutionized the world. The cool gray city of love was the epice...
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True S...
Jason FagoneJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and ...
The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Go...
Herbert KrosneyThis codex–one of the greatest discoveries in Judeo-Christian archaeology–did not head straight to a museum, or even to the library of a rich collector. The gospel's removal from its burial place was just the beginning of a bizarr...
The Residence: Inside the Private Wor...
Kate Andersen Brower[Read by Karen White] A remarkable history with elements of In the President's Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas. America...
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 ...
Jim DeFede[Read by Ray Porter] When thirty-eight jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001, due to the closing of United States airspace, the citizens of this small community and su...
The Secret History of Christmas
Bill BrysonA cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything andNotes from a Small Island. Christmas is the single biggest annual event on the planet, a time for merry-making, over-indulgence...
And the Band Played On: Politics, Peo...
Randy ShiltsBy the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. Amer...
Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Powe...
Tom ShroderA fascinating, transformative look at the therapeutic powers of psychedelic drugs, particularly in the treatment of PTSD, and the past fifty years of scientific, political, and legal controversy they have ignited, by award-winning jou...
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Re...
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