Non-fiction
Blockchain
Stephen P. Williams
Blockchain technology is rolling through our culture, with no sign of stopping. Though most associate blockchain with bitcoin, blockchain is expanding from its roots in cryptocurrency to radically tra…
ONE DOLLAR MAN
Ole Sønnichsen
The story of how one man’s pragmatism and headstrong vision overcame political wrangling and helped turn the tide of World War II. On the 28th of May, 1940, the telephone rang at William S. Knudsen’s…
The Queen of Laughs
Stephen Clarke
If there is one thing typically British about Queen Elizabeth II, it’s that she has a sense of humor. It’s not always very subtle, and she laughs loudest at the antics of animals, but she does like to…
A Moral Treatise On Getting Over Bullsh*t (and Living a Better Life)
Fabrice Midal
Fight or flight. Giving it your all or giving it all up. When it seems your only choices in life are defiance or surrender, Fabrice Midal offers a third and more meaningful path: calmly and creatively…
Prey
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In an incisive and timely new book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that immigration and Islam are leading to a significant setback in women’s rights – not just for immigrants, but for all women in liberal dem…
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate
Nancy Campbell
A vivid and perceptive book, The Library of Ice is about one of our planet’s defining resources. It combines scientific and cultural history with memoir. From the world’s northernmost museum in Greenl…
The White Darkness
David Grann
Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackl…
Janet Flanner
Michèle Fitoussi
Janet Flanner’s story is intimately linked to that of the The New Yorker for which she was the Paris correspondent for over half a century. A feminist, lesbian, pacifist, seductress and leading figure…
The Billionaire Raj
James Crabtree
The Billionaire Raj tells the story of the twenty-five years since India opened its economy to the world. It argues that like America before it, it is mid-way through a battle to define how its societ…
The French Revolution
Stephen Clarke
In 1789 almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine him. People wanted democratic reform within a monarchy, and initially that was what they got. But as power-hungry populists us…