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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 630
Format: Library Binding
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that... |
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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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Solitary
Albert Woodfox · Grove Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement -- in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana -- all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary... |
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The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria
Samar Yazbek · Ebury Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Samar Yazbek was well-known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence... |
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The Slave Across the Street
PeggySue Wells · Ampelon Publishing
Format: Paperback
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While more and more people each day become aware of the dangerous world of human trafficking, most people in the U.S. still believe this is something that happens to foreign women, men and children--not something that happens to their own. In this powerful true story, Theresa Flores shares... |
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
BILL O'REILLY · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including... |
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson · Crown; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that... |
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Untitled JLTM
Anonymous 9781250205797 · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
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Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times BestsellerA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. "An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith... |
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Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Candice Millard · Doubleday
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime... |
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The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency, from "one of the most graceful and lucid intellectuals writing on race and politics today" (Vanity Fair) . Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have... |
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