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1. Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan

   Heraldo Muñoz

   By the lead commissioner of the UN investigation, an authoritative account of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.More

2. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times

   Lucy Lethbridge

   The vividly told lives of British servants and the upper crust they served.More

3. The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817

   Myron Magnet

   Why the American Revolution, of all the great revolutions, was the only enduring success.More

4. The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

   Graham Robb

   How the scientific and technological genius of the Druids created the earliest known accurate map of the world.More

5. The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme

   Joe Sacco, Adam Hochschild

   From “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist) comes a monumental, wordless depiction of the most infamous day of World War I.More

6. Trees in Paradise: A California History

   Jared Farmer

   Readers of John McPhee will enjoy this brilliant landscape history of California from the Gold Rush to the present.More

7. The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science

   Sandra Hempel

   An infamous murder investigation that changed forever the way poisoners were brought to justice.More

8. The Hunted Whale

   James P. McGuane

   The lethal industry that lit the world, explained and illustrated by precise photographs of its weapons and equipment.More

9. Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

   Joyce Appleby

   A compelling history of the European explorations that ignited curiosity about nature and science, ultimately leading to the theory of evolution.More

10. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

    Vincent Bugliosi

    For fifty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history.More

11. The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

    Alan Taylor

    This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.More

12. Fatal Rivalry: Flodden, 1513: Henry VIII and James IV and the Decisive Battle for Renaissance Britain

    George Goodwin

    Flodden 1513: the biggest and bloodiest Anglo-Scottish battle. Its causes spanned many centuries; its consequences were as extraordinary as the battle itself.More

13. The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

    Susan Wise Bauer

    A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world.More

14. Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC

    Kenneth J. Winkle

    The stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom.More

15. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights

    William P. Jones

    A brilliant history that goes beyond the dazzling “I Have a Dream” speech to explore the real significance of the massive march and the movement it inspired.More