Penguin Books
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The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
$19.00 Add to cartThe thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Ja… [more below]
- Author: Kleiner, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0399564152
- Language: English
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America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
$19.00 Add to cartA tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserv… [more below]
- Author: Lowenstein, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109847
- Language: English
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
$14.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 143037587
- Language: English
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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
$22.00 Add to cartThe true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post
In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the- Author: Ellsberg, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142003425
- Language: English
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The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
$20.00 Add to cart“Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader”–Hillary Rodham Clinton
Soon to Be a Major Television Event
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American hi… [more below]- Author: Weiss, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 014312899X
- Language: English
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Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past
$15.99 Read moreStories of hope, love, and compassion from a bygone era of Singapore’s history Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past is a compilation of biographies based on historical fact. These neve… [more below]
- Author: Devasahayam, Theresa W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9815127128
- Language: English
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The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
$19.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller!
From one of America’s most beloved sportswriters and the bestselling author of Pappyland, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost- Author: Thompson, Wright
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 014313387X
- Language: English
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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
$25.00 Add to cartThe 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams’s celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement
From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Mont- Series: Eyes on the Prize
- Author: Williams, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124749
- Language: English
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Andrew Carnegie
$25.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller!
“Beautifully crafted and fun to read.” –Louis Galambos, The Wall Street Journal “Nasaw’s research is extraordinary.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Make no mistake: David Nas- Author: Nasaw, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112449
- Language: English
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Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
$20.00 Add to cart“Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government.” –Antonia Fraser
Fr- Author: Jones, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108956
- Language: English
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
$23.00 Add to cartThis groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable con… [more below]
- Series: Compass
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140196013
- Language: English
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature’s greatest detective. “Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game.
No fictional c
- Author: Konnikova, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 31 2013
- ISBN10: 014312434X
- Language: English
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
$19.00 Read more“A treasure of a book.”–David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the N- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004839
- Language: English
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Legendary Children: The First Decade of Rupaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
$18.00 Add to cartA definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo
NPR’s Best Books of the Year 202- Author: Fitzgerald, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134620
- Language: English
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The Third Reich in Power
$26.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed and comprehensive account of Germany’s transformation under Hitler’s total rule and the inexorable march to war, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich and The Third Reich at War… [more below]
- Series: History of the Third Reich
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037900
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Third Reich
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive account of Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power and The Third Reich at War.
“The clearest and most grippin… [more below]- Series: History of the Third Reich
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034693
- Language: English
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Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
$18.00 Read more“Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his pleasure in his subject is palpable.” —The New York Tim… [more below]
- Author: Wilczek, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0735223904
- Language: English
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
$13.00 Add to cart‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over ete- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472865
- Language: English
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Tales of the Peculiar
$14.99 Add to cartA companion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series
Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who di- Author: Riggs, Ransom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0399538542
- Language: English
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Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live
$18.00 Add to cartA humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
Daniel Klein’s fans have fallen in love with the warm, humoro- Author: Klein, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0143129597
- Language: English
