|
The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand
Matt Gutman · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 896
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
Diarmaid MacCulloch · Viking
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in government, based on a decade of original archival research, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn"This a book that - and it's not often you can say this... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The first authoritative biography - featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs - of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.Forty-five years... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS · Viking
Pages: 1088
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind is Winston... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
|
|
The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life
JOYCE LEE MALCOM · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America's most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Million Fragile Bones
Connie May Fowler · Twisted Road Publications
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
|
|
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Environmental Studies. On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, a BP operated oil rig, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven men died in the explosion. Before the well was capped, it spewed an estimated 4.9 million gallons of oil into the gulf. The spill... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
