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I am reading 'Underground in Berlin' , Marie Jalowicz Simon 5 irisblue Aug 2018 Aug 2018 5 2338

First World War 9 Jack Sprat Apr 2013 Apr 2013 2 3423

Project Terminated 0 jakeXT Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 1837

Woman finds long-lost sister after reading her memoir ‘Wild’ 2 jakeXT Sep 2013 Mar 2014 3 2485

Chris Hadfield: 'I'm blind, in space, holding a drill. Houston, I have a problem' 1 jakeXT Oct 2013 Oct 2013 1 2676

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars -- The Untold Story, 1 jakeXT Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 2215

James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price’ 2 jakeXT Nov 2014 Nov 2014 3 2104

Princeton Receives $300M Rare Book Collection, University’s Largest Gift Ever 0 jakeXT Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1942

Michael Lewis Reflects on His Book Flash Boys, a Year After It Shook Wall Street to Its Core 0 jakeXT Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1858

The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America 1 Javaman Nov 2022 Dec 2022 4 3355

Susan Cain: The power of introverts in a world just that just can't stop talking 3 jeffrey_pdx Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 2418

Aldrich Ames 1 jeffrey_pdx Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2180

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 2063

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 1129

Forget the Alamo review: dark truths of the US south and its 'secular Mecca' 2 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 6 4290

A look at the tumultuous life of 'Persepolis' as it turns 20 0 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 2645

I just got my cool new autographed Thom Hartmann book 1 JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2492

Sarah Vowell! 12 JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 Sep 2012 1 4769

I recommend Netflixed 1 JonLP24 Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 2028

Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy 0 JonLP24 Oct 2017 Oct 2017 0 1541

Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by the Guardian journalist 1 JonLP24 Nov 2017 Nov 2017 8 2205

The Red Web: The Struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the online revolutionaries 0 JonLP24 Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 1438

Collusion books 0 JonLP24 Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1521

I'm looking for a good book on women's sufferage. 3 Just Saying May 2013 May 2013 0 2476

Anybody know about BAM! ? 4 justgamma Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2787

Great history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre 3 kag Nov 2012 Jan 2013 1 3292

Explains how democracy is in big trouble: "Democracy in Chains." 2 kairos12 Sep 2017 Aug 2018 2 3531

"Into the Raging Sea" 1 kairos12 Jun 2018 Jun 2018 0 1866

Midnight In Chernobyl 2 kairos12 Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1718

"Premonition" 2 kairos12 Nov 2021 Jan 2022 0 2126

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"Empire of Pain" 4 kairos12 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 2530

"Flying Blind 0 kairos12 Mar 2022 Mar 2022 1 1817

"Cabin Fever." 0 kairos12 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 1991

"The Pope At War." 0 kairos12 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 1522

Nuclear War: A Scenario 3 kairos12 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 2970

Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of 5 kairos12 Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 2835

Reading "The Gales of November." 3 kairos12 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 914

Bruce Catton over Shelby Foote any day. & twicet on the weekends 2 KG Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 2729

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4 kgrandia Jan 2016 Jul 2017 5 3567

Here is account of my last 3 years in San Jacinto California 0 Koch Ebola Aug 2016 Aug 2016 0 1770

Here is a chaper from my manuscript in audio 0 Koch Ebola Jan 2018 Jan 2018 0 1711

I'm reading "Connecticut in the Civil War" right now 2 krispos42 Dec 2011 May 2012 1 2691

This town wow 5 Laochtine Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 2640

"Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present" --Ruth Ben-Ghiat 1 lastlib Feb 2022 Feb 2022 2 2980

What about Double Down? 9 Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2013 Jul 2014 0 3464

Ex-cop to release book on New Kensington, PA mob 0 left-of-center2012 Nov 2015 Nov 2015 0 3761

Manure and ice cream 0 left-of-center2012 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 5 1930

'The Pioneers' by David McCullough 6 left-of-center2012 May 2019 May 2019 6 2347

The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969: when Vietnam came home 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 4 1746

"ESCALANTE'S DREAM: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest" 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 1 2241

The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 1 1647

"The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" 0 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 2 1704

This message was self-deleted by its author 4 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 0 1976

"The Liberation of Paris" by Jean Edward Smith 1 left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 2 1763

"The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip" by Jeff Guinn 0 left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 1 1815

The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: the full list 6 left-of-center2012 Oct 2019 Sep 2020 9 3906

"The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar" 3 left-of-center2012 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 0 2527

This message was self-deleted by its author 2 left-of-center2012 Mar 2021 Mar 2021 3 3253

"I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" by Alaina E. Roberts 0 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 0 4132

Isaly's chipped ham, Klondikes celebrated in new historical book 9 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 4194

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The Ten Best History Books of 2021 (Smithsonian Magazine) 1 left-of-center2012 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 2847

'Murders & Mysterious Deaths in the Pennsylvania Wilds' is released 4 left-of-center2012 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 3477

I'm looking for a book about travel on a wagon train 11 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Aug 2022 1 4686

Need help from history buffs. 6 leftyladyfrommo Jul 2013 Jul 2013 0 3067

Ann Rule died. RIP 4 leftyladyfrommo Jul 2015 Aug 2015 2 2622

Fulfillment 1 LessAspin Apr 2021 Apr 2021 1 2483

Does anybody else's nonfiction books 14 libodem Aug 2014 Nov 2014 0 4169

How 'bout these? 1 libodem Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 1980

Michael Moore, Here Comes Trouble, is a real page turner. 3 limpyhobbler Oct 2012 Dec 2012 1 2784

This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation, by Barbara Ehrenreich 1 limpyhobbler Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 2536

Reading Ian McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain. Awesome. 1 lindysalsagal Jun 2019 Jun 2019 8 1987

I just finished reading "Hillbilly Elegy". 18 llmart Nov 2017 Dec 2017 0 5391

Anyone recommend a book on the Christian right? n/t 6 lordsummerisle Aug 2016 Sep 2017 0 2223

What is with the discrepancy on book prices on rare/used book sites? 1 LuckyLib Jun 2013 Jun 2013 0 1980

Any suggestions for non-fiction or poetry for a sharp 91 year old woman? 9 LuckyLib Sep 2014 Jun 2015 0 3839

What's the best David Sedaris book? I want to send 7 LuckyLib Mar 2020 Mar 2020 1 5249

I am looking for a book about how Germans felt when Hitler came to power 9 Lulu KC Nov 2016 Dec 2017 0 4943

American Women of the Far Right 7 lunasun Jul 2019 Aug 2019 5 2735

Is there any interest in a sub-section of non-fiction devoted to military history? 1 Lurks Often Feb 2013 Feb 2013 0 2201

'Corporations Are Not People' ..... a book review by Thom Hartmann 0 marmar Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2299

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