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Robert Bruce Adolph

Surviving the United Nations

The astonishing true story of a US Army Special Forces soldier who became a warrior for peace. In his humanitarian and peacekeeping missions for the United Nations he dealt with child-soldiers, blood diam…

John Eidinow

Esther Simpson

The thousands of academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered and feted with Nobel Prizes, knighthoods and admiration. But who was the woman who saved them and why has history forgot…

Kevin Fagan

The Lost and the Found

In the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.

Gail Tsukiyama

The Brightest Star

A LIBRARYREADS PICK AND BEST BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2023 "A writer of astonishing grace, delicacy, and feeling."-Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"A b…

Teresa Lim

The Interpreter's Daughter

PRE-ORDER THE HEARTFELT TALE OF ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY TO UNCOVER A FAMILY HISTORY BURIED BY SECRETS OF WAR AND TRAGEDY IN PAPERBACK NOW---------------------------------I would learn that when families tell …

Roxanne de Bastion

The Piano Player of Budapest

"A story about a piano and its most prodigious player--and how they both survived one of the darkest periods in history."--Provided by publisher.

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Kevin Fedarko

A Walk in the Park

"A triumph. Fedarko doesn’t describe awe; he induces it." —Blair Braverman, The New York Times Book Review Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald…

Devon O'Neil

The Way Out

A harrowing, never-before-told story of death and endurance in the Colorado mountains—thirty hours that changed lives forever and forced a reckoning about the cost of adventure. “You wanna ski a lap?” Fif…

Kevin Fedarko

A Walk in the Park

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly danger…

Evan Rail

The Absinthe Forger

An astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe . . . Thought to be hallucinog…

Roxanne de Bastion

The Piano Player of Budapest

'A painfully moving story' Kirkus Reviews 'Deeply moving ... triumphant' Greg Dawson 'Powerful' The Mail on Sunday

Mick Clifford

Who Killed Una Lynskey?

A true story of murder and vengeance, a shattered community and a miscarriage of justice that echoes down the decadesOctober 1971. Nineteen-year-old Una Lynskey vanishes near her home in Co. Meath. In the…

Steven Johnson

The Infernal Machine

"A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York-and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat-from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map"--

Henry Hemming

Four Shots in the Night

The riveting story of how the death of a spy in the IRA led to the biggest murder investigation in British history.

Dede Mirabal

Alive in Their Garden

In this memoir, Dedé Mirabal offers an intimate account of the lives and legacy of her sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, Dominican revolutionaries who were assassinated in 1960 by order …

Chuck Hogan

The Carpool Detectives

The incredible true story of a group of moms who, united by a search for new purpose, attempt to solve a fifteen-year-old double murder. A lot of us like to think we could solve a mystery. Can these four…

Evan Rail

The Absinthe Forger

Now in paperback: an astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe . . . Though…

Steven Johnson

The Infernal Machine

“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed …