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  1. Oct 19, 2026

    Black Power Praxis Theory, Practice, and Activist Intellectuals in Detroit's Black Power Movement

    Matt Birkhold · University of Michigan Press

  2. Oct 20, 2026

    The Last Animal Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth Extinction

    Kyle Harper · Princeton University Press

  3. Oct 20, 2026

    The Strategist How to Think About War and Politics

    Eliot Cohen · Princeton University Press

  4. Oct 20, 2026

    A Land So Strange The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

    Andres Resendez · Basic Books

  5. Oct 20, 2026

    A Fractured Liberation Korea under US Occupation

    Kornel Chang · Belknap Press

  6. Oct 20, 2026

    The Shortest History of Australia From First Nations Origins to Thriving, Multicultural Nation-State?A Continent of Epic Beauty's Singular Past

    Mark McKenna · The Experiment · The Shortest History Series

  7. Oct 20, 2026

    The Cherokees In War and at Peace, 1670–1840

    David Narrett · Belknap Press

  8. Oct 20, 2026

    The East Wing Power, Intrigue, and the Untold Story of America's First Ladies

    Azadeh Moaveni · St. Martin's Press

  9. Oct 20, 2026

    First Among Equals Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism

    Teresa M. Bejan · Belknap Press

  10. Oct 20, 2026

    The Other French Revolution The Radical Republic in the Caribbean

    Paul Friedland · Harvard University Press

  11. Oct 20, 2026

    The Girl in Blue Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased

    Doreen Carvajal · Grand Central Publishing

  12. Oct 20, 2026

    The Silver Thread of the Deep A Cultural History of Shark Fin in China and Beyond

    Ronald C. Po · Harvard University Asia Center · Harvard East Asian Monographs

  13. Oct 20, 2026

    The Silver Thread of the Deep A Cultural History of Shark Fin in China and Beyond

    Ronald C. Po · Harvard University Asia Center · Harvard East Asian Monographs

  14. Oct 20, 2026

    Power and the Palace The Hidden Relationship Between Monarch and Prime Minister, from Victoria and Disraeli to Elizabeth and Thatcher

    Valentine Low · Headline

  15. Oct 20, 2026

    Bird Men The Rise of American Airpower and the Machine That Ended World War II

    A. J. Baime · Mariner Books

  16. Oct 20, 2026

    Motherland A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

    Julia Ioffe · Ecco

  17. Oct 20, 2026

    The Silver Lords of Nagasaki The Rise and Fall of Japan's Last Great Maritime Dynasty

    Timothy R Romans · Yale University Press

  18. Oct 20, 2026

    Oil Wars The Struggle for Control that has Shaped the Modern World

    Guy Laron · Yale University Press

  19. Oct 20, 2026

    Soviet Rifleman vs German Infantryman Operation Bagration 1944

    Jacek Zabielski, Raffaele Ruggeri · Osprey Publishing · Combat

  20. Oct 20, 2026

    Baku 1918 Dunsterforce and the Race for Oil in World War I

    Louise Provan, Johnny Shumate · Osprey Publishing · Campaign

  21. Oct 20, 2026

    The Six Minute War Reagan, Russia and the Race to Automate Armageddon

    Michael Dobbs · Simon & Schuster

  22. Oct 20, 2026

    There and Back Again The Unofficial Oral History of The Lord of the Rings Films

    Sam Moore · Atria Books

  23. Oct 20, 2026

    Lexington-Class Aircraft Carriers 1927–46 The US Navy's first fleet carriers

    Mark Lardas, Adam Tooby · Osprey Publishing · New Vanguard

  24. Oct 20, 2026

    Murmansk 1941 The Failure of Germany's Operation Platinum Fox

    David Greentree, Johnny Shumate · Osprey Publishing · Campaign