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  1. Unfreedom of the Press
    Unfreedom of the Press
    Mark R. Levin
    Hardcover
    44
    $16.88  
  2. Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
    Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
    William H. McRaven
    Hardcover
    $18.00  
  3. The Mueller Report
    The Mueller Report
    The Washington Post
    Paperback
    185
    $9.00  
  4. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
    The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and...
    A. J. Baime
    Kindle Edition
    329
    $9.99  
  5. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
    Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State...
    Rachel Maddow
    Hardcover
    $21.00  
  6. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
    The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers...
    David McCullough
    Hardcover
    44
    $17.99  
  7. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to...
    Lindsey Fitzharris
    Kindle Edition
    395
    $1.99  
  8. Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War
    Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet...
    W. Craig Reed
    Kindle Edition
    162
    $1.99  
  9. The Mueller Report
    The Mueller Report
    The Washington Post
    Kindle Edition
    185
    $8.99  
  10. Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero
    Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His...
    Michael Hingson, Susy Flory...
    Kindle Edition
    1,424
    $1.99  
  11. The Farfarers: A New History of North America
    The Farfarers: A New History of North America
    Farley Mowat
    Kindle Edition
    51
    $1.99  
  12. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
    Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of...
    Nelson Mandela, Michael Boatman...
    Audible Audiobook
    949
    $26.99  
  13. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
    Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of...
    Annie Jacobsen
    Hardcover
    4
    $17.89  
  14. The National Parks: America's Best Idea
    The National Parks: America's Best Idea
    Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns...
    Audible Audiobook
    193
    $30.58  
  15. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
    A World Undone: The Story of the Great War...
    G. J. Meyer, Robin Sachs...
    Audible Audiobook
    552
    $34.96  
  16. Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
    Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling...
    James L. Nelson
    Kindle Edition
    20
    $1.99  
  17. Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
    Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their...
    Wendy Holden
    Kindle Edition
    1,529
    $11.99  
  18. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
    Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State...
    Rachel Maddow
    Kindle Edition
    $14.99  
  19. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the...
    Adam Higginbotham
    Kindle Edition
    149
    $14.99  
  20. Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story
    Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great...
    Wilfred M. McClay
    Hardcover
    1
    $20.99  
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  1. The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
    The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of...
    Susan Page
    Hardcover
    68
    $22.75  
  2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Yuval Noah Harari
    Paperback
    5,875
    $15.91  
  3. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
    Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last...
    Casey Cep
    Hardcover
    28
    $16.17  
  4. The Library Book
    The Library Book
    Susan Orlean
    Hardcover
    695
    $11.85  
  5. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy)
    The British Are Coming: The War for America...
    Rick Atkinson
    Hardcover
    12
    $24.00  
  6. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
    Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a...
    Pete Buttigieg
    Hardcover
    286
    $17.94  
  7. The Fifth Risk
    The Fifth Risk
    Michael Lewis
    Hardcover
    917
    $11.39  
  8. The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
    The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral...
    Ben Shapiro
    Hardcover
    583
    $18.29  
  9. Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
    Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed...
    Jared Cohen
    Hardcover
    51
    $18.00  
  10. Obama: An Intimate Portrait
    Obama: An Intimate Portrait
    Pete Souza, Barack Obama
    Hardcover
    1,687
    $24.97  
  11. Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
    Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
    Robert Matzen, Luca Dotti
    Hardcover
    45
    $25.16  
  12. Working
    Working
    Robert A. Caro
    Hardcover
    68
    $15.00  
  13. The Case for Trump
    The Case for Trump
    Victor Davis Hanson
    Hardcover
    278
    $21.00  
  14. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Yuval Noah Harari
    Hardcover
    5,875
    $23.78  
  15. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)
    Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and...
    Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
    Hardcover
    2,724
    $19.03  
  16. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    Hardcover
    3,930
    $13.62  
  17. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
    Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the...
    George Packer
    Hardcover
    10
    $19.49  
  18. The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion
    The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the...
    Robert S. Mueller III, Special Counsel's Office U.S. Department of Justice...
    Paperback
    175
    $7.79  
  19. Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World 
    Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable...
    Ann Shen
    Hardcover
    345
    $9.45  
  20. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
    Jared Diamond
    Hardcover
    12
    $21.00  
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  1. Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
    Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy...
    Adam Makos
    Hardcover
    287
    $15.07  
  2. Flower of God: A Jewish family's 3000-year journey from spice to medicine
    Flower of God: A Jewish family's 3000-year...
    Herbert Ausubel
    Kindle Edition
    175
    $9.99  
  3. The Book That Started It All: The Original Working Manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous
    The Book That Started It All: The Original...
    Anonymous
    Hardcover
    129
    $32.84  
  4. Blood Makes the Grass Grow: A Norwegian Volunteer's War Against the Islamic State
    Blood Makes the Grass Grow: A Norwegian...
    Mike Peshmerganor
    Paperback
    110
    $24.99  
  5. Hard Roll: A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans
    Hard Roll: A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life...
    Jon McCarthy
    Paperback
    105
    $13.21  
  6. One Friday In Jerusalem: Walking to Calvary - a Tour, a Faith, a Life
    One Friday In Jerusalem: Walking to Calvary - a...
    Andre Moubarak
    Paperback
    86
    $20.00  
  7. Beautifully Said: Quotes by remarkable women and girls, designed to make you think (Everyday Inspiration)
    Beautifully Said: Quotes by remarkable women...
    Quotabelle, ...Pauline Weger...
    Hardcover
    82
    $11.55  
  8. Suga Water: A Memoir
    Suga Water: A Memoir
    Arshay Cooper
    Paperback
    80
    $21.14  
  9. Always My Hero: The Road to Hope & Healing Following My Brother's Death in Afghanistan
    Always My Hero: The Road to Hope & Healing...
    Renee Nickell, Allen West
    Paperback
    77
    $18.04  
  10. The Hiding Place
    The Hiding Place
    Corrie Ten Boom, John and Elizabeth Sherrill...
    Audio CD
    3,804
    $13.42  
  11. Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown
    Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate...
    Eric Blehm, Paul Michael...
    Audible Audiobook
    3,581
    $21.83  
  12. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
    With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
    E. B. Sledge
    Paperback
    3,070
    $13.58  
  13. TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL's 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading Through Change
    TakingPoint: A Navy SEAL's 10 Fail Safe...
    Brent Gleeson, Mark Owen
    Hardcover
    74
    $16.17  
  14. The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump
    The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear...
    Gregg Jarrett
    Hardcover
    1,795
    $17.80  
  15. Humans of New York : Stories
    Humans of New York : Stories
    Brandon Stanton
    Hardcover
    1,754
    $16.59  
  16. Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
    Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor
    Clinton Romesha
    Paperback
    1,277
    $11.14  
  17. Licensed to Lie
    Licensed to Lie
    Sidney Powell
    Paperback
    897
    $13.36  
  18. Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors
    Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's...
    George W. Bush, Laura Bush...
    Hardcover
    845
    $21.16  
  19. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Modern Library)
    At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching...
    Philip Dray
    Paperback
    67
    $14.60  
  20. War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
    War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and...
    Nelson A Denis
    Paperback
    491
    $6.86  
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  1. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the...
    Adam Higginbotham
    Hardcover
    149
    $15.10  
  2. America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
    America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost...
    Graham Hancock
    Hardcover
    58
    $18.71  
  3. The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
    The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's...
    Jim Sciutto
    Hardcover
    12
    $18.29  
  4. A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
    A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure...
    Adam Gopnik
    Hardcover
    2
    $18.30  
  5. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)
    The British Are Coming: The War for America...
    Rick Atkinson
    Kindle Edition
    12
    $19.99  
  6. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
    Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top...
    Annie Jacobsen
    Paperback
    588
    $13.21  
  7. Presidents of War
    Presidents of War
    Michael Beschloss
    Hardcover
    192
    $21.36  
  8. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
    Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the...
    Steven Strogatz
    Hardcover
    45
    $18.30  
  9. The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
    The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of...
    Annie Jacobsen
    Paperback
    226
    $16.19  
  10. The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
    The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
    Paul Collier
    Hardcover
    16
    $19.49  
  11. The Fifth Risk
    The Fifth Risk
    Michael Lewis
    Kindle Edition
    917
    $10.82  
  12. The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
    The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's...
    Jim Sciutto
    Kindle Edition
    12
    $14.99  
  13. Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
    Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy...
    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    Hardcover
    19
    $18.00  
  14. 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation
    100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide...
    Clint Emerson
    Paperback
    1,570
    $11.10  
  15. Meditations: A New Translation
    Meditations: A New Translation
    Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays
    Paperback
    3,657
    $9.40  
  16. Faith Unraveled
    Faith Unraveled
    Held Evans
    Paperback
    172
    $13.38  
  17. DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America
    DARK AGENDA: The War to Destroy Christian America
    David Horowitz
    Hardcover
    87
    $16.83  
  18. The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European...
    The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law...
    Daniel Okrent
    Hardcover
    10
    $20.69  
  19. Fingerprints of the Gods
    Fingerprints of the Gods
    Graham Hancock
    Paperback
    672
    $14.95  
  20. The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy
    The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside...
    Ann Rule
    Paperback
    1,243
    $12.18  
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