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Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio por Jessica Abel
2015
The House of Twenty Thousand Books por Sasha Abramsky
2015
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War por Lynsey Addario
2015
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art por Julian Barnes
2015
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History por Cynthia Barnett
2015
Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word por Matthew Battles
2015
SPQR : Uma História da Roma Antiga por Mary Beard
2015
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble por Antony Beevor
2015
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America por Ari Berman
2015
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne por Anna Bikont
2015
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham por Emily Bingham
2015
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime por Harold Bloom
2015
Reagan: The Life por H. W. Brands
2015
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir por Carrie Brownstein
2015
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey por Rinker Buck
2015
1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar por Eric Burns
2015
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence por Bryan Burrough
2015
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street por Ada Calhoun
2015
Between the World and Me por Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015
The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family por Roger Cohen
2015
All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found por Philip Connors
2015
Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo por David Crane
2015
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake por Leo Damrosch
2015
The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion por Tracy Daugherty
2015
Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight por Margaret Lazarus Dean
2015
How We Live Now: Redefining Home and Family in the 21st Century por Bella DePaulo
2015
The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable and How We Can Get There por Vincent T. DeVita, Jr.
2015
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession por Edmund De Waal
2015
Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South por Christopher Dickey
2015
Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing por Joe Domanick
2015
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science por Alice Dreger
2015
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 por Joseph J. Ellis
2015
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle por Lillian Faderman
2015
The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History por Brian M. Fagan
2015
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It por John Ferling
2015
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power por Paul Fischer
2015
The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation por Thomas Fleming
2015
A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth por Rita Gabis
2015
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West por David Gessner
2015
Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 por Robert Goodwin
2015
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll por Peter Guralnick
2015
If This is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women por Sarah Helm
2015
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget por Sarah Hepola
2015
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex por Michael Hiltzik
2015
Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947 por Bruce Hoffman
2015
Eleanor Marx: A Life por Rachel Holmes
2015
Empire of fear por Andrew Hosken
2015
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead por Blair Jackson
2015
Negroland: A Memoir por Margo Jefferson
2015
The Folded Clock: A Diary por Heidi Julavits
2015
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich por Walter Kempowski
2015
The World's Largest Man: A Memoir por Harrison Scott Key
2015
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania por Erik Larson
2015
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964 por Zachary Leader
2015
The Making of Asian America: A History por Erika Lee
2015
Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty por Charles Leerhsen
2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America por Jill Leovy
2015
H Is for Hawk por Helen Macdonald
2015
Lord Fear: A Memoir por Lucas Mann
2015
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery por Henry Marsh
2015
The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State por Lisa McGirr
2015
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution por Rachel Moran
2015
The Argonauts por Maggie Nelson
2015
The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy por Kliph Nesteroff
2015
Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism por John Norris
2015
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen por Mary Norris
2015
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal por Jay Parini
2015
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays por Michael Paterniti
2015
Barefoot to Avalon por David Payne
2015
Worlds Apart: A Memoir por David Plante
2015
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis por Robert D. Putnam
2015
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777–1865 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900) por Patrick Rael
2015
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe por Lisa Randall
2015
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future por Lauren Redniss
2015
Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul por Mark Ribowsky
2015
Katrina: After the Flood por Gary Rivlin
2015
The Age of Sustainable Development por Jeffrey D. Sachs
2015
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel por Carl Safina
2015
The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma por Delphine Schrank
2015
Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor por James M. Scott
2015
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine por Andrew Scull
2015
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory por John Seabrook
2015
Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone por Scott Shane
2015
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan por Graeme Smith
2015
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War por Susan Southard
2015
A House in St John's Wood: In Search of My Parents por Matthew Spender
2015
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva por Rosemary Sullivan
2015
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth por John Szwed
2015
The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government por David Talbot
2015
The World Is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse por Joni Tevis
2015
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins por Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
2015
Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3 por Mark Twain
2015
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot por Mark Vanhoenacker
2015
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps por Nikolaus Wachsmann
2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS por Joby Warrick
2015
Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War por Joseph Wheelan
2015
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers por Simon Winchester
2015
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History por Jay Winik
2015
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution por David Wootton
2015
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science por Andrea Wulf
2015

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