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In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson - Broadway; 1st edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail (well, most of it) resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Now he has traveled across the world and all the way Down... |
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The murder of King Tut : the plot to kill the child king : a nonfiction thriller
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, archaeologist Howard Carter's files dealing with the discovery of a long-lost crypt, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result... |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer - Anchor
Pages: 333
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Book
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The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space - a powerful, revelatory contribution that is as essential to our understanding... |
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1776
David McCullough - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake... |
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Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand - Random House
Pages: 473
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into... |
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann - Doubleday
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover
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A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable... |
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