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The Wright Brothers
David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown... |
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Robert Kurson - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men - John Chatterton and John Mattera - are willing to risk... |
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K Massie - Random House
Format: Book
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most... |
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard Preston - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus. A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT... |
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Luis Alberto Urrea - Little
Format: Paperback
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In a new 10th anniversary edition: "The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic) . In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest... |
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet,"... |
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Beyond the Homestretch: What I've Learned from Saving Racehorses
Lynn Reardon - New World Library
Format: Hardcover
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In Beyond the Homestretch, Lynn Reardon shares an unlikely story. In 2002, she quit her Washington DC-area office job and moved to rural Texas to open the racehorse adoption ranch LOPE (LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers) . Since then, LOPE has helped transition more than 725 thoroughbreds... |
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman - Books on Tape
Format: Unabridged]
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Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century - from his work on the atomic bomb to his solution to the puzzle of the Challenger disaster; Feynman helped to shape the world as we know it. Nobel laureate, iconoclastic icon, caring family man, amateur artist and professional... |
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Alexander Rose - Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Turn Washingtons Spies Now a new original series on AMC Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose reveals the unforgettable story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and into... |
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this... |
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Treason in the Blood
Anthony Cave Brown - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book
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Brown tells the extraordinary stories of Kim Philby, a renowned double agent, and his father and mentor, Harry St. John Bridger Philby, who played a key role in establishing the modern Middle East. In this dual biography, the author includes interviews, private papers of both St. John and Kim Philby,... |
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography and the Indies Choice Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year awardOn a May afternoon in 1943,... |
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Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
George Friedman - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years) , with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines "flashpoints," unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout... |
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Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition
Thomas Sowell - Basic Books; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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In Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues in a lively manner that does not require any prior knowledge of economics. These fallacies include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as fallacies... |
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Mary Norris - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The most irreverent and helpful book on language since the #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves.Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer,... |
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
Peter Hopkirk - Kodansha International
Format: Paperback
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THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY'S HEADLINES Peter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era's legacy playing itself out today. The Great Game between Victorian Britain... |
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One Summer: America, 1927
Bill Bryson - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney - Viking
Format: Print book
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; it features James Madison among its vibrant cast of characters. This... |
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Witness
Whittaker Chambers - Regnery Publishing; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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First published in 1952, Witness was at once a literary effort, a philosophical treatise, and a bestseller. Whittaker Chambers had just participated in Americas trial of the century in which Chambers claimed that Alger Hiss, a full-standing member of the political establishment, was a spy for the Soviet... |
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Two Years before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Richard Henry Dana - Adamant Media Corporation
Format: Paperback
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Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen... |
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War.During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million.... |
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Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Laney Salisbury - Penguin Press
Format: Book
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A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayProvenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate... |
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Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence
H W Brands
Format: Print book
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In Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas's journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in American history.From Stephen Austin, Texas's reluctant founder, to the alcoholic Sam Houston, who |
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Polio: An American Story
David M Oshinsky - Oxford Univ. Press
Format: Paperback
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Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky... |
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss - Crown Trade
Format: Paperback
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Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo - a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.The real-life protagonist of The Black Count,... |
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
Jennet Conant - Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the US government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic... |
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Simon Winchester - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt... |
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The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal... |
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All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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The classic multimillion copy bestsellerDelve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous... |
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Truman
David McCullough - Touchstone Book
Format: Paperback
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest... |
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The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nathaniel Philbrick - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Watch a video Read discussion questions for The Last Stand.The bestselling author of Mayflower sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American WestLittle Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular... |
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The Map That Changed the World
Simon Winchester - Perennial
Format: Book
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In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world... |
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Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
Robert K Massie - Pimlico
Format: Paperback
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In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes, then battles off the coasts of England and Germany and in the far corners of the world, including the Falklands. The British attempted to force the Dardanelles... |
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
Scott Zesch - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life... |
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