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• • Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy ($2.99)

• • Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett ($2.99)

• • The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor ($1.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

• • Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age by John C. McEnroe ($3.99)

• • Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336-30 BC: War at Sea From Alexander to Actium by Michael Paul Pitassi ($3.99)

• • How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond by John Powell ($1.99 or available through your Audible membership)

• • The Colonels by W. E. B. Griffin ($1.99)

• • Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War by Kevin Dougherty ($2.99)

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• The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific by William Craig ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea by Noah Andre Trudeau ($4.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Bob Dylan - All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon ($2.99)
• Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw ($2.99)
• A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. Sachs ($2.99, available through Kindle Unlimited, or available through your Audible membership)
• Peron: A Biography by Joseph A. Page ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News by Matthew Pressman ($2.99)
• Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald ($2.99). Winner of the Booker Prize.
• Runner (Jane Whitefield Book 6) by Thomas Perry ($2.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence - and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg ($1.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

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• Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero by Tyler Cowen ($2.99)
• Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century by Josh Rogin ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball's Golden Age by Sridhar Pappu ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited).
• Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London by Nigel Jones ($2.99)
• Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game by Daniel Okrent ($1.99 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 Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller ($2.99)

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• The Informant (Butcher's Boy Book 3) by Thomas Perry ($3.99) Recommended - but may want to read the first two before this.
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown ($2.99)
• Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System by Sharon Waxman ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History by Wim Klooster ($3.99)
• Perfect English Grammer: The Indispensable Guide to Excellent Writing and Speaking by Grant Barrett ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Saladin: Hero of Islam by Geoffrey Hindley ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett ($1.99)
• God's Mechanics: How Scientists and Engineers Make Sense of Religion by Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J. ($2.99)
• Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger ($1.99)
• Voices of the Codebreakers: Personal Accounts of the Secret Heroes of World War II by Michael Paterson ($1.99)
• The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent ($1.99)

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• Dubliners by James Joyce ($1.99)
• Ulysses by James Joyce ($1.99)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce ($1.99)
• Target: Rabaul: The Allied Siege of Japan's Most Infamous Stronghold, March 1943-August 1945 by Bruce Gamble ($4.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Witch-Hunt in Hollywood: McCarthyism's War on Tinseltown by Michael Freedland and Barbra Paskin ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• A Short History of World War I by James L. Stokesbury ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Death on a Deadline (The Nero Wolfe Mysteries Book 2) by Robert Goldborough ($2.99)
• The War in the Mediterranean by Bernard Ireland ($1.99)
• Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943 by Michael Gannon ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

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• Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell ($4.99)
• The World Atlas of Coffee: 2nd Edition by James Hoffmann ($1.99)
• Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Daniel P. Bolger ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler - How War Mde Them and How They Made War by Phillips Payson O'Brien ($2.99)
• Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos, 1954-1961
• The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War by David J Eicher ($3.99)
• Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli ($1.99)
• Leningrad: Siege and Symphony by Brian Moynahan ($2.99)
• The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943 by Richard Woodman ($1.99)
• Friedrich Nietzsche by Curtis Cate ($2.99)
• Marlborough's War Machine, 1702-1711 by James Falkner ($1.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769-1814 by Muir Rory ($2.99)
• Sinatra: Behind the Legend by J. Randy Taraborrelli ($2.99)
• Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal by Eddie Trunk ($1.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

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• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien ($1.99) Recommended
• The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950 by Frederick Lewis Allen ($2.99)
• The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker by Amy Reading, narrated by Christa Lewis ($4.99) Audible
• Embezlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet by Vincent J. Pitts ($2.99)
• The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 edited by John Sanford ($1.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being by Neil Theise ($1.99)
• Collision Low Crossers: Inside the Turbulent World of NFL Football by Nicholas Dawidoff ($2.99)
• The French at Waterloo - Eyewitness Accounts: Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps by Andrew W. Field (Free)
• The French at Waterloo - Eyewitness Accounts: 2nd and 6th Corps, Cavalry, Artillery, Foot Guard and Medical Services by Andrew W. Field ($2.99)

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• A History of Warfare by John Keegan ($1.99)
• The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg ($1.99)
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki ($1.99)
• Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Adb el-Kader by John W. Kiser ($1.99)
• Plotinus: Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice by Stephen R. Clark ($3.99)
• Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer ($1.99)
• Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli ($0.56)
• Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life by Roger Daniels ($3.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte ($2.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)

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• The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill Watterson ($2.60) Recommended
• Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser ($1.99)
• Baseball Anecdotes by Daniel Okrent and Steve Wulf ($1.99)
• The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey ($1.99 or available through your Audible membership)
• Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs by Dave Barry ($1.99, available thru Kindle Unlimited, or available through your Audible membership)

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• The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics by Gary B. Meisner ($4.99 or available through Kindle Unlimited)
• The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 edited by Louise Penny ($2.99)
• Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America by Wenonah Hauter ($3.99)
• Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East by Jeremy Bowen ($2.99)
• Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World by Sharman Apt Russell ($2.99)
• The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates ($3.99)
• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz ($2.99)