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All Monsters Must Die: An Excursion to North Korea
Magnus BaÃŒ?rtaÃŒ?s · Anansi International
Pages: 276
Format: Print book
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A finalist for the prestigious August Prize, All Monsters Must Die is the story of North Korea, past and present, offering a rare and fascinating window into the most isolated country in the world. In 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung.... |
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A History of Ancient Egypt Volume 2
John Romer · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. Through extensive research over many decades... |
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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Ioan Grillo · Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint... |
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September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
John C McManus · New American Library
Pages: 502
Format: Print book
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In September Hope, acclaimed historian John C. McManus explores World War II's most ambitious invasion, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi Germany before the end of 1944. Operation Market-Garden is one of the war's most famous, but least understood, battles, and McManus... |
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Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I
Richard Faulkner · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation's history. At the moment of the Republic's emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact... |
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Holly Tucker · W W Norton
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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"A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution ... Thanks to Tucker's sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying." -- Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte's... |
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December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World
Craig Shirley · Thomas Nelson; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, eyes in America were focused on the war in Europe or distracted by the elevated mood sweeping the country in the final days of the Great Depression. But when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial... |
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The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagorski · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 393
Format: Print book
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"[A] deep and sweeping account of a relentless search for justice." - The Washington Post More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Their saga can now be told almost in its entirety.After... |
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Betty Crocker Lost Recipes: Beloved Vintage Recipes for Today's Kitchen
BETTY CROCKER · Betty Crocker
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating collection that celebrates the wonderful recipes from the Betty Crocker archives in a package that appeals to the modern cook​Betty Crocker Lost Recipes is the ultimate treasure for the most devoted Betty Crocker fans, as well as cooks who are interested in recipes... |
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The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria
Janine di Giovanni · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 224
Format: Book
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Once in a decade comes an account of war that promises to be a classic. Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience... |
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Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
Barbara Leaming · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically... |
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