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Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I
Nick Lloyd · Basic Books (AZ)
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
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In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued - known as the Hundred Days Campaign - saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked... |
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Timothy Egan · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America.
The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man.... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New Zealand
DK Travel · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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The guide that shows you what other travel books only tell you! New Zealand is one of the most spectacular and least spoiled countries on the planet and DK's Eyewitness Travel Guide: New Zealand guide does full justice to its astonishing volcanic landscape, wildlife reserves and fjord-like... |
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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943
Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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In the next installment of the "splendid memoir Roosevelt didn't get to write" (New York Times) , Nigel Hamilton tells the astonishing story of FDR's year-long, defining battle with Churchill, as the war raged in Africa and Italy.
Nigel Hamilton's Mantle... |
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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
Val McDermid · Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of readers worldwide with their riveting narratives of characters who solve complex crimes and confront unimaginable evil. In the course of researching her bestselling novels McDermid has become... |
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The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape
Suzannah Lessard · Counterpoint
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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This engrossing work of literary nonfiction is a deep dive into our surroundings -- cities, countryside, and sprawl -- exploring change in the meaning of place, and reimagining our American landscape
Following her bestselling The Architect of Desire, Suzannah Lessard returns... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until... |
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Exploring Megalithic Europe: Amazing Sites to See for Yourself
Julian Heath · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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Abundant prehistoric remains survive in the wide landscapes of Europe, but none are arguably as fascinating or awe-inspiring as the "megalithic" (after the Greek megas: great, and lithos: stone) monuments built by the people who lived here during the three hugely important... |
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig Nelson · Scribner
Pages: 532
Format: Print book
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Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed twentieth-century America - Pearl Harbor - based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.
The America we live in today... |
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
Judith Flanders · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Kindle Edition
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From the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Invention of Murder an extraordinary revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens LondonThe nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change and nowhere was this more apparent than London In only... |
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The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America
Michaelangelo Matos · Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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Joining the ranks of Please Kill Me and Can't Stop Won't Stop comes this definitive chronicle of one of the hottest trends in popular culture - electronic dance music - from the noted authority covering the scene.It is the sound of the millennial generation, the music "defining... |
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Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment
Linda Hirshman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The first history - incisive, witty, fascinating - of the fight against sexual harassment, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Sisters in Law
In Reckoning, Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social change movements, delivers the sweeping story... |
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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
Bart Van Es · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood... |
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The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
Leanda de Lisle · PublicAffairs
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times bestselling author comes the tragic story of Charles I, his devoted and resilient French queen, England's civil war, and the trial for his life.Barely forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country was at war with itself, split between... |
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