History -- Contemporary
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History -- Contemporary
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- The ghost at the feast, America and the collapse of world order, 1900-1941, Robert Kagan
- The last voyage of the Andrea Doria, the sinking of the world's most glamorous ship, Greg King and Penny Wilson
- 2020, one city, seven people, and the year everything changed, Eric Klinenberg
- The wind in my hair, my fight for freedom in modern Iran, Masih Alinejad with Kambiz Foroohar
- Ghosts of the tsunami, death and life in Japan's disaster zone, Richard Lloyd Parry
- Chasing the thrill, obsession, death, and glory in America's most extraordinary treasure hunt, Daniel Barbarisi
- The war came to us, life and death in Ukraine, Christopher Miller
- When crack was king, a people's history of a misunderstood era, Donovan X. Ramsey
- Queen of our times, the life of Queen Elizabeth II, Robert Hardman
- Preston Tucker and his battle to build the car of tomorrow, Steve Lehto ; foreword by Jay Leno
- Apollo 8, the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon, Jeffrey Kluger
- Nuclear folly, a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Serhii Plokhy
- Medgar & Myrlie, Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America, Joy-Ann Reid
- Legacy of violence, a history of the British empire, Caroline Elkins
- The vanishing of Flight MH370, the true story of the hunt for the missing Malaysian plane, Richard Quest
- One giant leap, Neil Armstrong's stellar American journey, Leon Wagener
- Narcotopia, in search of the Asian drug cartel that survived the CIA, Patrick Winn
- Apollo to the moon, a history in 50 objects, Teasel Muir-Harmony ; foreword by Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut
- How to live in space, everything you need to know for the not-so-distant future, Colin Stuart
- Rescue of the Bounty, disaster and survival in Superstorm Sandy, Michael J. Tougias and Douglas A. Campbell
- Fly girl, a memoir, Ann Hood
- A wall of white, the true story of heroism and survival in the face of a deadly avalanche, Jennifer Woodlief
- My travels with Mrs. Kennedy, Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill
- Meghan and Harry, the real story, Lady Colin Campbell
- Picturing Apollo 11, rare views and undiscovered moments, J.L. Pickering and John Bisney
- Chasing the demon, a secret history of the quest for the sound barrier, and the band of American aces who conquered it, Dan Hampton
- A deadly wind, the 1962 Columbus Day storm, John Dodge
- The age of Eisenhower, America and the world in the 1950s, William I. Hitchcock
- Hamas, from resistance to regime, Paola Caridi ; translated by Andrea Teti
- Endurance, a year in space, a lifetime of discovery, Scott Kelly with Margaret Lazarus Dean
- Overboard!, a true blue-water odyssey of disaster and survival, Michael J. Tougias
- A few days full of trouble, revelations on the journey to justice for my cousin and best friend, Emmett Till, Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Benson
- One giant leap, the impossible mission that flew us to the Moon, Charles Fishman
- Building the Columbia River Highway, they said it couldn't be done, Peg Willis
- Operation moonglow, a political history of project Apollo, Teasel Muir-Harmony
- Heavy metal, the hard days and nights of the shipyard workers who build America's supercarriers, Michael Fabey
- Neil Armstrong, a life of flight, Jay Barbree ; foreword by John Glenn
- Retracing the iron curtain, a 3,000-mile journey through the end and afterlife of the Cold War, Timothy Phillips
- Chasing history, a kid in the newsroom, Carl Bernstein
- Set the night on fire, L.A. in the sixties, Mike Davis and Jon Wiener
- New space frontiers, venturing into Earth orbit and beyond, by Piers Bizony
- George VI and Elizabeth, the marriage that saved the monarchy, Sally Bedell Smith
- Gold, oil, and avocados, a recent history of Latin America in sixteen commodities, Andy Robinson
- Gambling with Armageddon, nuclear roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962, Martin J. Sherwin
- My hijacking, a personal history of forgetting and remembering, Martha Hodes
- Walk through fire, the train disaster that changed America, Yasmine S. Ali, MD
- All the frequent troubles of our days, the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler, Rebecca Donner
- The autumn ghost, how the battle against a polio epidemic revolutionized modern medical care, Hannah Wunsch
- AimeĢe & Jaguar, a love story, Berlin 1943, Erica Fischer ; translated from the German by Edna McCown ; with Allison Brown
- Whatever next?, lessons from an unexpected life, Anne Glenconner
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