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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
Caroline Moorehead · Harper; First U.S. First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II—told in full for the first time.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains... |
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Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
Zephyr Teachout · Harvard Univ Press
Pages: 376
Format: Audiobook
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When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological... |
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Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
Kari Herbert · Chronicle Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks,... |
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Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
Francine Klagsbrun · Schocken
Pages: 848
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time. Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born... |
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The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present
Toby Wilkinson · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
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A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors, now in tumult.Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads... |
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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
Jessica B Harris · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era - the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies,... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith · Random House
Pages: 596
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The life and loves of Prince Charles are illuminated in a major new biography from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new look... |
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
Elaine Tyler May · Basic Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America's culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracyFor the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities,... |
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Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
Elizabeth Goodman · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook
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In the second half of the twentieth century, New York was the source of new sounds, including the Greenwich Village folk scene, punk and new wave, and hip-hop. But as the end of the millennium neared, cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle, Austin, and London, pushing New York from... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond.How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous... |
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Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper
Nicholas Irving · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From the legendary special operations sniper and bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step-by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of Irving's 10 most significant kills - none of which have... |
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Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line
Heather Hendershot · Broadside
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.When Firing Line premiered... |
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Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail
Jonathan Chait · Custom House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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"An unassailable case that, in the eyes of history, Barack Obama will be viewed as one of America's best and most accomplished presidents. Over the course of eight years, Barack Obama has amassed an array of outstanding achievements. His administration saved the American economy from... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War
DAVID FISHER · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American historyFrom the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's... |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
ALISON WEIR · Ballantine Books
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and moralizing. Now, in the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author and esteemed biographer... |
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