Month August 2025

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• Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder ($2.99)
• The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir by Foster Hirsh ($2.99)
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Mis It When It's Gone by Astra Taylor ($3.99)
• The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Hugh Aplin ($1.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Fasten Your Seat Belts: The Passionate Life of Bette Davis by Lawrence J. Quirk ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob by T. J. English ($2.99)
• Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will ($3.99)
• High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta by Gary Ecelbarger ($2.99)
• War! What Is It Good For? Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots by Ian Morris ($2.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam by James A. Warren ($2.99)
• Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha ($2.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• New York in the '50s by Dan Wakefield ($2.99)
• How About Never - Is Never Good for You? My Life in Cartoons by Bob Mankoff ($2.99)

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• Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein ($2.99)
• One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 by Eric J. Wittenberg, J. David Petruzzi, and Michael F. Nugent ($2.99)
• New York Times: Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation by The New York Times, Clay Risen, and George Kaogerakis, edited by Ted Widmer ($2.99)
• The Workshop of Democracy, 1863-1932 by James MacGregor Burns ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell ($2.99)
• The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili ($1.99)
• American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition by George F. Kennan ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World by Paul Robert Walker ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Love Poems of Rumi by Rumi, Translated by Nader Khalili ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky ($2.99)
• Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman by Ken Auletta ($3.99)

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• City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome by Jake Morrisey ($2.99)
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean ($2.99)
• New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers by John Butman and Simon Targett ($1.99)
• The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 by Esther Crain ($3.99)
• Criminology Goes to the Movies: Crime Theory and Popular Culture by Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown ($2.99)
• Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern 3rd Edition by Ernst Breisach ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography by Stephen Fry ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• the Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor by Paul Dickson ($2.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn by Larry Colton ($2.99)
• Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye ($2.99)
• Maggie Smith: A Biography by Michael Coveney ($2.99)
• The Coming of the New Deal: The Age of Roosevelt, 1933-1935 by Arthur M. Schlesinger ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

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• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt ($2.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop ($1.99)
• The Powers That Be by David Halberstam ($3.99)
• The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft ($4.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• CIRCE by Madeline Miller ($2.99)
• The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: The Ancient World Economy & the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia & Han China by Raoul McLaughlin ($2.99, available through Kindle Unlimited, or available through your Audible membership)
• To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865 by Burke Davis ($2.99)
• History of Political Philosophy 3rd Edition by Leo Strauss, edited by Joseph Cropsey ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle, translated by Robert C. Bartlett ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons by Walter Lord ($2.99, available through Kindle Unlimited, or available through your Audible membership)
• Classical Mythology A to Z: An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places by Annette Giesecke ($4.99)
• Written in Dead Wax: The First Vinyl Detective Mystery by Andrew Carmel ($2.99 or available through your Audible membership)

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• Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World by David L. Roll ($1.99)
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez ($4.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves by Keith Law ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations edited by Peter G. Tsouras ($2.99)
• Almanac of World War I by David F. Burg and Edward Purcell ($2.99)
• Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster by Gerard Paul Passannante ($2.99)
• Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists by Fred A. Wolf ($1.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow ($2.99)
• Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael A. Hiltzik ($2.99)
• The Robber Barons: The Classic Account of the Influential Capitalists Who Transformed America's Future by Matthew Josephson ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins ($2.99)