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Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
Denise Gigante - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library - a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist... |
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Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier.. In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic campaign after another,... |
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Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones
Hettie Judah - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world,this book is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history. The earliest scientists ground and processed minerals in a centuries-long quest for a mythic stone that would... |
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Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
Derek Leebaert - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Leebaert has done the near impossible -- crafted a fresh and challenging portrait of the man and his inner circle." -- Richard Norton Smith, author of An Uncommon Man, former director of the Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Ford presidential libraries.. "A fascinating and absorbing... |
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Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
Kevin Cook - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: eBook
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A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias. In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound... |
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Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
Dean King - Scribner
Format: Audio CD
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The dramatic and uplifting story of legendary outdoorsman and conservationist John Muir's journey to become the man who saved Yosemite - from the author of the bestselling Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival.. In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir - iconic environmentalist,... |
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On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones
Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Phelps (USMC Ret.) - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A "can't-miss for anyone interested in current military affairs," On Killing Remotely reveals and explores the costs - to individual soldiers and to society - of the way we wage war today (Kirkus Reviews, starred) . "One of the best new Drones books" - BookAuthorityThroughout... |
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The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
M.D. Ricardo Nuila - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People's Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila's stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance... |
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The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
George Black - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The moving story of how a small group of people - including two Vietnam veterans - forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the ongoing horrors - agent orange and unexploded munitions - inflicted on the Vietnamese.. "Fifty years after the last U.S. service member left... |
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