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159 titles releasing in Sep 2026.

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  1. Sep 15, 2026

    Confronting America What Has to Change

    Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer · Macmillan Audio · Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series

  2. Sep 15, 2026

    Confronting America What Has to Change

    Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer · St. Martin's Press · Bill O'Reilly's Confronting Series

  3. Sep 15, 2026

    A Shadow Over the World Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America's World War II

    William I Hitchcock · Simon & Schuster

  4. Sep 15, 2026

    Tomorrow Is Yesterday Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine

    Hussein Agha, Robert Malley · Picador

  5. Sep 15, 2026

    Spies The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

    Calder Walton · Simon & Schuster

    <b><b><i>Foreign Policy</i> Best Book of 2023</b><br> <b><i>Foreign Affairs</i> Best Book of 2023</b><br> <br><b>The “riveting” (<i>The Economist</i>), secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.</b></b><br><br><i>Spies</i> is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin’s means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing “unprecedented” about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. It was simply business as usual, new means used for old ends.<br> <br>The Cold War started long before 1945. But the West fought back after World War II, mounting its own shadow war, using disinformation, vast intelligence networks, and new technologies against the Soviet Union. <i>Spies</i> is a “deeply researched and artfully crafted” (Fiona Hill, deputy assistant to the US President) story of the best and worst of mankind: bravery and honor, treachery and betrayal. The narrative shifts across continents and decades, from the freezing streets of St. Petersburg in 1917 to the bloody beaches of Normandy; from coups in faraway lands to present-day Moscow where troll farms, synthetic bots, and weaponized cyber-attacks being launched woefully unprepared West. It is about the rise and fall of Eastern superpowers: Russia’s past and present and the global ascendance of China.<br> <br>Mining hitherto secret archives in multiple languages, Calder Walton shows that the Cold War started earlier than commonly assumed, that it continued even after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, and that Britain and America’s clandestine struggle with the Soviet government provided key lessons for countering China today. This “authoritative, sweeping” (Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize­–winning author of <i>Embers of War</i>) history, combined with practical takeaways for our current great power struggles, make <i>Spies</i> a unique and essential addition to the history of the Cold War and the unrolling conflict between the United States and China that will dominate the 21st century.

  6. Sep 15, 2026

    Touching All the Bases A Story of Power, Purpose, and Surviving the Bronx

    Dave Winfield, Alan Maimon · Matt Holt Books

  7. Sep 20, 2026

    The Mantle of the Prophet Religion and Politics in Iran

    Roy P. Mottahedeh · Oneworld Publications

  8. Sep 21, 2026

    Empire of the East Poland-Lithuania 1500-1700

    Vincent Rospond · Winged Hussar Publishing

  9. Sep 22, 2026

    Racist by Design Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control

    Kelly Lytle Hernandez · W. W. Norton & Company

  10. Sep 22, 2026

    A Short History of the Gaza Strip

    Anne Irfan, Muhammad Shehada · W. W. Norton & Company

  11. Sep 22, 2026

    The Eternal Forest A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora

    Elena Sheppard · St. Martin's Griffin

  12. Sep 22, 2026

    The Eye of the Mind Vision, Memory, and Meditation in Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Preaching

    Maria Grazia Bartolini · Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute · Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies

  13. Sep 22, 2026

    Soul A Brief History of Black Cultural Life

    Christopher Freeburg · Yale University Press

  14. Sep 22, 2026

    Saudi Arabia A Modern History

    David Commins · Yale University Press

  15. Sep 22, 2026

    Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950–53 (3) The Republic of Korea Army and the United Nations Command

    Benjamin Lai, Johnny Shumate · Osprey Publishing · Men-at-Arms

  16. Sep 22, 2026

    Target Stopped The History of the Modern Tank

    Sam Cranny-Evans · Osprey Publishing

  17. Sep 22, 2026

    Rocks & Minerals

    DK · DK · Science and Secrets of Natural History

  18. Sep 22, 2026

    Shadow Before the Flame The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War

    Catherine Grace Katz · Viking

  19. Sep 22, 2026

    Rock* A Mainstream Alternative History of Alternative Mainstream Music

    Chuck Klosterman · Da Capo

  20. Sep 22, 2026

    King's Secretary William Paget and the Last Years of the Reign of Henry VIII

    Andrew Johnston · Yale University Press

  21. Sep 22, 2026

    History by a Hair -

    Crown · Crown

  22. Sep 22, 2026

    The SS 'Wiking' Division in World War II

    Massimiliano Afiero, Ramiro Bujeiro · Osprey Publishing · Elite

  23. Sep 22, 2026

    Westport 1864 Price's Raid and the Midwest's Greatest Battle

    Brian Lane Herder, Marco Capparoni · Osprey Publishing · Campaign

  24. Sep 22, 2026

    Cold War City A History of West Berlin

    David E. Barclay · Princeton University Press