Bargain @ $1.99-$2.99 for history/memoir/biography from assorted imprints in Canada & presumably also the US (prices should be the same at most retailers):
@ $1.99 each from Open Road Media (couponable/VIP-eligible @ Kobo):
@ $1.99 from non-couponable publishers including Crown/Archetype, HarperCollins (tend to rotate at the end of the week, so possibly only good through tomorrow and maybe Monday), Penguin Books, etc.:
- The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney (Wikipedia) an Egyptologist and associate professor at UCLA, who also hosts Discovery Channel programs and publishes her academic work as Kathlyn M. Cooney; her biography of Ancient Egypt's famous female pharoah.
- The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes by photojournalist Scott Wallace (Wikipedia), a contributor to National Geographic, a memoir of one of his assignments for them as part of a team on the quest of the story behind the tribe of the “People of the Arrow”.
- The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner, the true crime story of the 1970s airplane hijacking of Western Airlines Flight 701 (Wikipedia).
- Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould, a joint group biography & cultural history. There's also a WhisperSync tie-in deal on the Amazon version of this, mentioned by GtrsRGr8 in this post in the Audiobooks thread.
- Monty Python Speaks: The Complete Oral History of Monty Python, as Told by the Founding Members and a Few of Their Many Friends and Collaborators by David Morgan, an official history by the founders of the classic British comedy, with rare photos and interviews with friends and colleagues.
- The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America by music journalist Michaelangelo Matos, a history of how the music style gradually rose to become a hit, full of photos and interviews, etc.
- My First Five Husbands...And the Ones Who Got Away, a memoir by the late actress Rue McClanahan (Wikipedia), co-star on the 1980s hit sitcom The Golden Girls.
- Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by journalist Blaine Harden (Wikipedia), the official biography of North Korean defector and human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk (Wikipedia).
- The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story, a memoir by student activist Hyeonseo Lee (Wikipedia)
- On Wings of Eagles: The Inspiring True Story of One Man's Patriotic Spirit--and His Heroic Mission to Save His Countrymen by bestselling historical & thriller novelist Ken Follett (Wikipedia), apparently a straight non-fiction work (not novelized or dramatized, according to the author's word in the Wikipedia entry), about the rescue of several of former U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot's employees during the 1970s Iranian hostage crisis.
- Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by the late Jennifer Worth (Wikipedia), a memoir of her nursing days in 1950s in Britain, and basis of the hit BBC drama series.
- Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny & The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice, and the Road to Reinvention by model & television personality Holly Madison (Wikipedia), two memoirs of her early years and her experiences before, during, and after the Playboy Mansion.
@ $2.99 from HarperCollins:
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by master spy novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton (
Wikipedia), a non-fiction account of Exactly What It Says In The Title. This is a pretty nice edition, with a new (circa 2014) retrospective foreword by the author, and also a foreword by the book designer about creating a unified cover design for the reprints of Deighton's assorted non-fiction titles, if you're into that sort of thing.