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Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Misguided Wars
Douglass Houghton - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Bacevich and retired army officer Danny A. Sjursen, Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Long War collects provocative essays from American military veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, offering firsthand... |
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
Neil Bradbury Ph.D. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains." --Kathy ReichsA brilliant blend of science and crime, A TASTE FOR POISON reveals how eleven notorious poisons affect the body--through the murders in which they were used. As any reader of murder... |
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Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season
MARSHALL JON FISHER - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Publishing on the 50th anniversary of that magic season, the definitive chronicle of the 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only undefeated team in NFL history - from an award-winning literary sportswriterThe 1972 Miami Dolphins had something to prove. Losers in the previous Super Bowl, a ragtag... |
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Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
Ben Riggs - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Role-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR -- the company that unleashed imaginations with Dungeons & Dragons, was driven into ruin by disastrous management decisions, and then saved by their bitterest rival.Co-created by wargame enthusiasts Gary Gygax and Dave... |
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John Prine's John Prine (33 1/3)
Erin Osmon - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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He is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the human condition. Marking the 50th anniversary of the album's release, John Prine chronicles... |
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The World of Stonehenge
Duncan Garrow - British Museum
Format: Hardcover
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Stonehenge is one of the best known, but most misunderstood, monuments in the world. Contrary to common belief, it was not a static, unchanging structure built by shadowy figures or druids. Rather it represents the cumulative achievement of numerous generations who were woven into a complex... |
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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
Sally Denton - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection "The Colony is one of the most gripping and disturbing true stories I've ever come across." -- Douglas Preston An investigation into the November, 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico -- an event that drew... |
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The Science of Murder
Carla Valentine - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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Discover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels in the ultimate true crime investigationAgatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one -- or, more commonly, several -- dead bodies. And the cause of death,... |
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
AlexandraLange - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A portrait-by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving-of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who "might be the most influential design critic writing now" (LARB) . Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as the American mall.... |
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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil
Tina Brown - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "addictively readable" (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family's battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years - only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises "The beach read of the summer . . . juicy,... |
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