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Surviving Remnant: Memories of the Jewish Greenhorns in 1950s America
Hanna Perlstein Marcus · Buttonhole Publishing
Pages: 291
Format: Paperback
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Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s and early '60s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus' sequel to her award-winning memoir, Sidonia's Thread. In Surviving Remnant, she recreates her childhood community of ambitious, humorous,... |
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A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses
Larry Haun · Taunton Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of "Fine Homebuilding's" best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, "A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses"... |
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True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy
Kati Marton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carré, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to.True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American... |
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Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant's Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay
Joseph Hickman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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The revelatory eyewitness account about Guantánamo Bay - detainees murdered, a secret CIA facility for torture, and the US government cover up - by the Staff Sergeant who felt honor-bound to uncover it.Staff Sergeant Joe Hickman was a loyal member of the armed forces and a proud American... |
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The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way
P J O'Rourke · Pgw
Pages: 263
Format: Hardcover
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P.J. O'Rourke began writing funny things in 1960s "underground" newspapers, became editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, then spent 20 years reporting for Rolling Stone and The Atlantic Monthly as the world's only trouble spot humorist, going to wars, riots, rebellions,... |
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Elena Favilli · Timbuktu Labs
Pages: 212
Format: Print book
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"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls" is a children's book packed with 100 BEDTIME STORIES about the life of 100 EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 FEMALE ARTISTS from all over the world. Each woman's story is written in the style of a fairy... |
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Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places
Beebe Bahrami · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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Centered in the Dordogne region of southwestern France, one of Europe's most concentrated regions for Neandertal and early modern human occupations, writer Beebe Bahrami follows and participates in the work of archaeologists who are doing some of the most comprehensive and global work to date... |
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The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism
Samuel M Katz · Berkley Caliber
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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The untold story of the Ya'mas, Israel's special forces undercover team that infiltrated Palestinian terrorist strongholds during the Second Intifada.It was the deadliest terror campaign ever mounted against a nation in modern times: the al-Aqsa, or Second, Intifada. This is the untold... |
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1916: A Global History
Keith Jeffery · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in 1916 across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's... |
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Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America
Daniel Blake Smith · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream.In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life... |
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Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties
Kevin Gascoyne · Firefly Books; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Beautifully illustrated... this definitive guide will appeal to die-hard tea enthusiasts. -- Library Journal The reference work weve been waiting for has arrived a comprehensive but not-too-weighty, one-volume coverage of the worlds teas, abundantly and beautifully illustrated with... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women's right to drive.Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold.... |
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