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Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
Paul Collins · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university.On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting... |
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The Comic Book Story of Baseball: The Heroes, Hustlers, and History-Making Swings
Alexander Irvine · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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A graphic novel-style history of baseball, providing an illustrated look at the major games, players, and rule changes that shaped the sport.This graphic novel steps up to the plate and covers all the bases in illustrating the origin of America's national pastime, presenting a complete... |
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Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Jeffrey Melnick · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning conflict journalist C.J. Chivers follows the arcs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through the experiences of those who fought them, as Stephen Ambrose did for the grunts of WWII, and Michael Herr's classic Dispatches did for Vietnam.Almost 2.5 million Americans... |
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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
KEITH O'BRIEN · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s - and won Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi‑day events, and cities... |
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
CAROLINE FRASER · Picador
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback
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The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie booksOne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearMillions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls -- the pioneer... |
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich · Pantheon
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies.Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze... |
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