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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
USA Today, "New and Noteworthy" "This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable... |
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Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City
Mark Adams · Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark Adams gamely sifts through the eons of rumor, science, and lore to find a place that, in the end, seems startlingly real indeed." -Hampton Sides "Infused with humor and pop culture references, Adams makes what could have been a tedious... |
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Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore · Knopf; First American edition
Format: Hardcover
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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of todays clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine... |
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The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
Terry Hunt · Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient... |
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Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World
Christina Lamb · William Collins
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback
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From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong?'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned... |
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The River Sea: The Amazon in History, Myth, and Legend
Marshall De Bruhl · Counterpoint; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Since its discovery by Europeans in 1500, explorers, visionaries, soldiers of fortune, men of God, scientists, and slavers have been drawn to the legendary Amazon. The River Sea is a sweeping chronicle of those brave and hardy souls, ranging from the Spanish seafarer Vicente Pinzón,... |
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If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II
Dennis E. Showalter · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the Munich crisis to the dropping of the first atom bomb, and from Hitler's declaration of war on the United States to the D-Day landings—historians suggest "what would have been" if key events in the war had gone differently. Written by an exceptional team of historians... |
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A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863
Jeffry D. Wert · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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From the time Robert E. Lee took command of the Army of Northern Virginia on June 1, 1862, until the Battle of Gettysburg thirteen months later, the Confederate army compiled a record of military achievement almost unparalleled in our nation’s history. How it happened—the relative... |
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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
Alec Wilkinson · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In this grand and astonishing tale Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S A Andreacutee the visionary Swedish aeronaut who in during the great age of Arctic endeavor left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon Called by a British military officer ldquothe most... |
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The World Remade: America in World War I
G J Meyer · Bantam
Pages: 688
Format: Print book
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A bracing, indispensable account of America's epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period
After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging... |
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