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Constantine the Emperor
David Potter · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity... |
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The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis's Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings
John M. Adams · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Egypt, The Valley of the Kings, 1905: An American robber baron peers through the hole he has cut in an ancient tomb wall and discovers the richest trove of golden treasure ever seen in Egypt. At the start of the twentieth century, Theodore Davis was the most famous archaeologist in the world;... |
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Appetites: A Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family... |
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Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story
Jack Devine · Sarah Crichton Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A sophisticated, deeply informed account of real life in the real CIA that adds immeasurably to the public understanding of the espionage culture--the good and the bad." --Bob WoodwardJack Devine ran Charlie Wilson's War in Afghanistan. It was the largest covert action of the Cold... |
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Call Me Debbie: True Confessions of a Down-to-Earth Diva
Deborah Voigt · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Internationally beloved opera star Deborah Voigt recounts her harrowing and ultimately successful private battles to overcome the addictions and self-destructive tendencies that nearly destroyed her life.Call Me Debbie is one of the most electrifying performances of Deborah Voigt's... |
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Churchill : A Life
Martin Gilbert · RosettaBooks, 2014.
Pages: 1088
Format: eBook
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Written by master historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert, this masterful single-volume work weaves together the detailed research from the author's eight-volume biography of the elder statesman, and features new information unavailable at the time of the original... |
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Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind · Hyperion Books
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia.... |
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
Adam Gopnik · Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like... |
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Bastards: A Memoir
Mary Anna King · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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"A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost . . . an impressive debut." -- Peter BalakianIn the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words,... |
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Evans Carlson, Marine Raider: The Man Who Commanded America's First Special Forces
Duane Schultz · Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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On August 17, 1942, ten days after American marines had stormed Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, two U.S. submarines secretly delivered a small force from the newly formed 2nd Marine Raider Battalion to Japanese-occupied Makin Island one thousand miles to the north. The raid was intended... |
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