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The Ragged Edge: A US Marine?s Account of Leading the Iraqi Army Fifth Battalion
Michael Zacchea · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover
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Deployed to Iraq in March 2004 after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, US Marine Michael Zacchea thought he had landed a plum assignment. His team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi Army battalion trained by the US military. Quickly, he realized he was faced... |
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Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being
Henning Mankell · Vintage
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback
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A stunning and poignant autobiographical look at the myriad experiences that shape a meaningful life, by the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries. In January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a response to this shattering news - but it is not a memoir... |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
Alison Weir · Ballantine Books
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover
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In the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author Alison Weir brings the dramatic reigns of England's medieval queens to life. The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have... |
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Putin: His Downfall and Russia's Coming Crash
Richard Lourie · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and timely book, by leading Russian expert Richard Lourie, that explores Putin's failures and whether Trump's election gives Putin extraordinarily dangerous opportunities in our mad new world."A master chronicler of modern Russia. Drawing on his own expertise,... |
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Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Patricia Lockwood · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post * Elle * NPR * New York Magazine * Boston Globe * Nylon * Slate * The Cut * The New Yorker * Chicago Tribune "Affectionate and very funny . . . wonderfully grounded and authentic.... |
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
Robert W Merry · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
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"A deft character study of a president." - The New York Times Book Review "A valuable education on where America has been and, possibly, where it is going." - National Review "Magisterial." - The Christian Science Monitor In this great American story, acclaimed... |
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Post Grad: Five Women and Their First Year Out of College
Caroline Kitchener · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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What really happens in the first year out of college? When Caroline Kitchener graduated from Princeton, she began shadowing four of her female classmates, interviewing them as they started to navigate the murky waters of post-collegiate life. Weaving together her own experience as a writer... |
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Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
Aldo Schiavone · Liveright
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
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A world-renowned classicist presents a groundbreaking biography of the man who sent Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross.The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross?... |
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