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Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew Kneale · Simon & Schuster Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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"Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." - The Sunday Times (London) Novelist and historian Matthew Kneale, a longtime resident of Rome, tells the story of the Eternal City - from the early... |
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My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
Jessica B Harris · Scribner Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era - the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia.In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies,... |
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Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945
Alan Allport · Yale University Press, 2015. Pages: 395 Format: Print book
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More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like.... |
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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life
Joy Mangano · Simon & Schuster Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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From visionary entrepreneur and inventor, Joy Mangano, comes a powerful and inspirational blueprint for living with more success, confidence, and happiness in work and life.A true American original, Joy Mangano carved her own path to fame and fortune with courage, creativity, and sheer... |
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
Nick Bunker · Knopf Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin... |
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See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
Travis Jeppesen · Hachette Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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From ballistic missile tests to stranger-than-fiction stories of purges and assassinations, news from North Korea never fails to dominate the global headlines. But what is life there actually like?In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences living, traveling,... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS · Harper Pages: 752 Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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Dirty Doc Ames and the Scandal that Shook Minneapolis
Erik Rivenes · Minnesota Historical Society Press Pages: 224 Format: Paperback
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The story of Albert Alonzo "Doc" Ames is perhaps the greatest political scandal in Minnesota history. As mayor of Minneapolis, Ames exposed the city to national humiliation-and helped jump-start an era of reform. At the turn of the twentieth century, Minneapolis was moving away... |
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Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Mary Jennings Hegar · New American Library Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE"Shoot Like a Girl is a must-read about an American patriot whose courage and determination will have a lasting impact on the future of our Armed Forces and the nation." - Senator John McCainOn June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings... |
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
Mackenzi Lee · Abrams Image Pages: 176 Format: Hardcover
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Based on Mackenzi Lee's popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women from all over the world. With tales of heroism and cunning, in-depth bios and witty storytelling, Bygone Badass Broads gives new life to these... |
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Poland: A History
Adam Zamoyski · Hippocrene Books; USA Edition edition Format: Paperback
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As Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as re-thinking the known facts well as the assumptions of the past. The events of the last twenty years and the growth of the independent Polish state... |
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Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
ELIZABETH ROSNER · Counterpoint Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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"Survivor Café takes on important issues of atrocity, trauma, and memory, rendering them all with such great clarity and intimacy that the reader will not soon forget them, or this powerful book." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer As firsthand... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole · Simon & Schuster Pages: 768 Format: Hardcover
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By the author of acclaimed biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Adams, a penetrating biography of one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) . The Moralist is a cautionary tale about the perils of moral vanity and American... |
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