Month May 2025

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• Hopscotch by Brian Garfield ($1.99)
• The Federal Reserve: A New History by Robert L. Hetzel ($4.99)
• A History of the Federal Reserve: 1913-1951 by Allan H. Meltzer ($3.99)
• Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Daniel P. Bolger ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Andrew Pettegree ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings ($1.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader by P. J. O'Rourke ($2.99)
• Former Guy: Doonesbury in the Time of Trumpism by G. B. Trudeau ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art by Sam Wasson ($3.99, available through Kindle Unlimited, or available through your Audible membership)
• Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World by Daniel Hannan ($1.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Stalin and the Bomb by David Holloway ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia ($3.99)
• 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective 1980 to 1990 by G. B. Trudeau ($2.99)
• The Federalist by John Jay and James Madison, edited by Jacob E. Cooke ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Golda by Elinor Burkett ($3.99)
• Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation by William Hogeland ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815, Volume 1: From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras by Johy Hussey ($4.99)
• Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815, Volume 2: From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe by John Hussey ($4.99)
• 1805 Austerlitz: Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition by Robert Goetz ($3.99)
• The Battle of the Berezina: Napoleon's Great Escape by Alexander Mikaberidze ($1.99)
• The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu ($2.99)
• Autopsy of an Unwinnable War: Vietnam by William C. Haponski, Jerry J. Burcham, et al. (#.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz by James Stejskal ($2.99)
• The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight by Nicholas Dagen Bloom ($3.99)
• 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America by David Pietrusza ($2.99)
• The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories by Edward Hollis ($2.99)
• Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition: The Definitive Guide to the Star Wars Universe by Adam Bray, et al. ($1.99)
• Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy by Leo Strauss ($3.99)
• The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of the Battleship Era by Martin Middlebrook and Patrick Mahoney ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Currency Politics: The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Policy by Jeffrey A. Frieden ($2.99)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ($1.99)
• The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives by Lisa Servon ($2.99)
• Origins of the American Indians: European Concepts, 1492-1729 by Lee Eldridge Huddleston ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Saladin: Hero of Islam by Geoffrey Hindley ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery by Noel Rae ($2.99)
• Dirt: A Social History as Seen Through the Uses and Abuses of Dirt by Terrence McLaughlin ($2.99)
• Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle, et al. ($3.99)
• A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume 3: Tunisia and the End in Africa, November 1942-1943 by Chrstopher Shores, et al. ($2.99)
• Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking edited by Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Agincourt: Myth and Reality, 1415-2015 by Stephen Cooper and Anne Curry ($1.99)

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• Neon Prey by John Sandford ($1.99) Recommended
• How to Focus by Thich Nhat Hanh ($1.99)
• Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno ($3.99)
• Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History by William Pelfrey ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Wilson by A. Scott Berg ($1.99)
• A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence by Ray Raphael ($1.99, available through Kindle Unlimited, or available through your Audible membership)
• Chernobyl by Frederik Pohl ($1.99)
• Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century by Josh Rogin ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution by Richard Whittle ($2.99)
• Hopscotch by Brian Garfield ($1.99)
• Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader by P. J. O'Rourke ($2.99)
• Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Daniel P. Bolger ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

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• Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States by Michael Lind ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga, translated by Rodney J. Payton ($3.99)
• Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky ($1.99)
• Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton ($2.99) Book 1 of the Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy.
• Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch ($3.99)
• Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend by Bill Russell and Alan Steinberg ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird, Earvin Magic Johnson, and Jackie MacMullan ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Red Rascal's War: A Doonesbury Book by Garry Trudeau ($1.99)
• Lee: The Last Years by Charles Bracelen Flood ($2.99)
• Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941 by John Broich ($3.99)
• The Way of Fire and Ice: The Living Tradition of Norse Paganism by Ryan Smith ($3.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Here's Johnny! My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship by Ed McMahon ($3.99)
• The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty: The Game, the Team, and the Cost of Greatness by Buster Olney ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

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• Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin Shaped the Post-war World by Diana Preston ($2.99)
• Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Les Standiford ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited))
• Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood by Robert S. Birchard ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession by Dave Jamieson ($2.99)

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• State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey ($2.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot ($2.99)
• A Combat Engineer with Patton's Army: The Fight Across Europe with the 80th "Blue Ridge" Division in World War II by Lois Lembo and Leon Reed ($2.99)
• The Essential HBO Reader edited by Gary R. Edgerton and Jeffrey P. Jones ($2.99)
• Guderian 1941: The Barbarossa Campaign by David R. Higgins ($2.99)
• The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante, Translated by Pinsky ($2.99)
• To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton ($2.99)