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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Eric Jay Dolin · Liveright
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas. Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising... |
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz · Penguin Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young travel... |
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Chocolate: 90 Sinful and Sumptuous Indulgences
Elisabeth Johansson · Sterling Epicure
Format: Hardcover
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You can never have too much chocolate—or too many chocolate recipes! From Mocha Squares to spicy Aztec Pralines and Fudge Cake with chocolate-caramel icing, this big, bold, beautiful volume features more than 90 treats that will tempt any chocoholic. Cooking tips explain how to temper... |
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON... |
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Bloody Sixteen: The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 during the Vietnam War
Peter Fey · Potomac Books
Pages: 393
Format: Hardcover
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Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16 (CVW-16) . Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against... |
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,... |
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1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence: From the Easter Rising to the Present
Tim Pat Coogan · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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There's before 1916 and then there's after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country's history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group... |
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12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
DOUG STANTON · Scribner
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
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"A thrilling action ride of a book" (The New York Times Book Review) - from Jerry Bruckheimer in theaters everywhere January 19, 2018 - the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks... |
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Complete Encyclopedia of African History - Vol 3 Heroes and Heroines
Jessie Carney Smith · African American Publications
Pages: 733
Format: Print book
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Volume 3: Heroes and Heroines An eclectic mix of profiles of 150 well know and lesser known individuals, who have made a lasting and profound impact on our culture. Personalities Covered: Hank Aaron; Robert S. Abbott; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Muhammad Ali; Maya Angelou; Arthur Ashe; Josephine... |
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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman · Random House
Pages: 937
Format: Print book
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A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill Douglas MacArthur was arguably... |
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Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now
Maggie Taft · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand . . . well, people here just get on with the work of making... |
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