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The Bettencourt Affair: The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Thomas Sancton · Dutton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Was the world's wealthiest woman - Liliane Bettencourt - heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L'Oréal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting narrative tells the real-life, shocking story behind the cause célèbre that... |
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Sarah Vowell · Riverhead Books
Pages: 274
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington's trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette's years... |
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The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
Charlie English · Riverhead Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Two tales of a city: The historical race to "discover" one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend."A... |
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
Stephen Coss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776.In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters... |
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The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings
Peggy Noonan · Twelve
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Peggy Noonan is one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time. The author of five bestselling books (What I Saw at the Revolution is now a classic) , her column in The Wall Street Journalis a must-read for millions of Americans. Witty, incisive and always... |
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Gold, Steel and Ice: a History of Mining Machines in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
Chris Allan · United States Department of the Interior
Pages: 113
Format: Print book
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"The drama of the Klondike gold strike in the late 1890s and subsequent discoveries across Alaska made the region synonymous with glittering gold and overnight wealth. But pulling profit from the earth was never easy. Today visitors to Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve can explore... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their bondage was at the root... |
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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 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture." -- New York... |
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The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
D C B Lieven · Viking
Pages: 426
Format: Print book
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"Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories. This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing." - Foreign AffairsOne of the world's... |
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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II - an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption - this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan... |
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