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Looking for Alaska
Peter Jenkins · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 434
Format: Hardcover
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More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of millions of Americans.Now, Peter is a bit older, married with a family,... |
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Pinkerton's War: The Civil War's Greatest Spy And The Birth Of The U.S. Secret Service
Jay Bonansinga ew York Times bestselling author of The Sinking of the Eastland Lucid and The Walking Dead: Invasion · Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling historical account of Allan Pinkerton’s pivotal role in the Civil War and the birth of the Secret Service Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton is best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which gained renown for solving train robberies in the 1850s... |
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
James Bradley · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 398
Format: Hardcover
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James Bradley's #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers made real the humanity and legacy of war as few books had before. Now, in Flyboys, Bradley returns to World War II and an extraordinary-and totally unknown-true story of courage.Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American... |
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Unsolved Mysteries of the Old West
W.C. Jameson · Taylor Trade Publishing; Second edition
Format: Paperback
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Two subjects continue to fascinate people—the Old West and a good mystery. This book explores and examines twenty-one of the Old West's most baffling mysteries, which lure the curious and beg for investigation even though their solutions have eluded experts for decades. Many relate... |
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 768
Format: Print book
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A defining American story, never before told with such breadth of scope, lavish research, and resounding spirit With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over... |
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Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Alex Von Tunzelmann · Henry Holt and Co.; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them onDuring the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson,... |
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The forts of Ohio: A guide to military stockades
Gary S Williams · Buckeye Book Press
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback
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Gary S. Williams's "The Forts of Ohio: A Guide to Military Stockades" is a short & yet actually very well written book that takes one of the more comprehensive looks at the history of the forts in Ohio history. Starting with the era prior to the French & Indian War &... |
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Europe since 1989: A History
Philipp Ther · Princeton University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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The year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. But it was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago school achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course... |
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The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain
Allan Massie · Thomas Dunne Books; Book Club EDITION edition
Format: Hardcover
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Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history.--The Wall Street JournalIn this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of historys bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the familys... |
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A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
Aman Sethi · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2012 New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice An intimate portrait of an invisible man—a powerful story of one man’s life that contains multitudes. Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage.... |
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