Book reviews and excerpts from exceptional books about history, current affairs and religion
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Recommended books found: 452
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: Dec 2022
The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation.
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
by Emma Smith
Hardcover: Nov 2022
A history of one of humankind's most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book.
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
by Colin Thubron
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
The most admired travel writer of our time - author of Shadow of the Silk Road and To a Mountain in Tibet - recounts an eye-opening, often perilous journey along a little known Far East Asian river that for over a thousand miles forms the highly ...
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In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
by Nancy Goldstone
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa - one of the most renowned women rulers in history - and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.
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The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
by Josh Mitchell
Hardcover: Aug 2021
Paperback: Aug 2022
From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the dramatic, untold story of student debt in America.
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
by Judy Batalion
Hardcover: Apr 2021
Paperback: Aug 2022
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance ...
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
by Amy Sohn
Hardcover: Jul 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
The New York Times–bestselling author Amy Sohn presents a narrative history of Anthony Comstock, anti-vice activist and U.S. Postal Inspector, and the remarkable women who opposed his war on women's rights at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul
by Jamie Ducharme
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
A propulsive, eye-opening work of reporting, chronicling the rise of Juul and the birth of a new addiction.
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
by Scott Ellsworth
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: May 2022
More than one-thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors' offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air.
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The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
by Julian Rubinstein
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: May 2022
An award-winning journalist's dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: May 2022
Winner of the 2021 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure...
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
by Laurence Bergreen
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Mar 2022
In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen ...
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The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
by Paulina Bren
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Mar 2022
From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the first history of New York's most famous residential hotel - The Barbizon - and the remarkable women who lived there.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by Kate Moore
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: Feb 2022
From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's ...
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The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS
by Margaret Coker
Hardcover: Feb 2021
Paperback: Feb 2022
From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS.
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by Erik Larson
Hardcover: Feb 2020
Paperback: Feb 2022
Winner of the 2020 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz.
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: Feb 2022
A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives.
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Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider
by Charles Person, Richard Rooker
Hardcover: Apr 2021
Paperback: Jan 2022
A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward - written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.
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Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
by Amelia Pang
Hardcover: Feb 2021
Paperback: Jan 2022
In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap foam headstones had been $5 at Kmart, too good a deal to pass up. But when she opened the box, something fell out that she wasn't expecting: an SOS ...
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
by Delphine Minoui
Hardcover: Nov 2020
Paperback: Oct 2021
Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of war.
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