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The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
Winston Groom · National Geographic Society
Pages: 496
Format: Audiobook
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Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victory in World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms... |
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Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Robert Kurson · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men - John Chatterton and John Mattera - are willing to risk... |
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Sinatra 100
Charles Pignone · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From his family's vast archives -- a revelatory new pictorial life of the greatest entertainer of the twentieth century On the centennial of his birth, Sinatra 100 -- with the participation of his three children -- is an intimate and dramatic visual portrait of Frank Sinatra, revealing... |
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Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook: 280 Delicious Recipes for Every Meal
Weight Watchers · St. Martin's Griffin; Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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Were having a celebration of food for cooks who love to eat welland eat smartWeight Watchers cookbooks are trusted by anyone who is excited about cooking delicious healthy food And with the more than recipes in Weight Watchers th Anniversary Cookbook healthy cooks and anyone who aspires... |
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A Friend of Mr. Lincoln: A novel
Stephen Harrigan · Vintage
Pages: 434
Format: eBook
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The author of the best-selling The Gates of the Alamo now gives us a galvanizing portrait of Abraham Lincoln during a crucially revealing period of his life, the early Springfield years, when he risked both his sanity and his ethical bearings as he searched for the great destiny he believed... |
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing: A Novel
Madeleine Thien · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize "A vivid, magisterial novel that reaches back to China's civil war and up to the present day" -- The Guardian"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage,... |
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Dark Corners: A Novel
Ruth Rendell · Scribner
Pages: 228
Format: Print book
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A spectacularly compelling story of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one life s fateful unraveling from Ruth Rendell one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation ("People") writing at her most acute and mesmerizing. When his father dies,... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.... |
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Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Lena Dunham · Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMESNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND LIBRARY JOURNALFor readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely... |
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Thor Volume 1: Goddess of Thunder
Jason Aaron · Marvel Comics
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
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Mjolnir lies on the moon, unable to be lifted! Something dark has befallen the God of Thunder, leaving him unworthy for the first time ever! But when Frost Giants invade Earth, the hammer will be lifted - and a mysterious woman will be transformed into an all-new version of the mighty Thor!... |
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Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running from Madness
Suzy Favor Hamilton · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a heartbreakingly honest yet hopeful memoir reminiscent of Manic, Electroboy,... |
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The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
Austen Ivereigh · Henry Holt; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his position to challenge and redirect one of the world's most formidable religionsAn expansive and deeply contextual work, at its heart The Great Reformer is about the intersection of faith... |
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The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom
Michael Shermer · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Michael Shermer's exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moralFrom Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously... |
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Face Paint: The Story of Makeup
Lisa Eldridge · Abrams Image
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals the entire history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classical times up through... |
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The Givenness of Things: Essays
Marilynne Robinson · Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Pages: 292
Format: Print book
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The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable,... |
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