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Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
Lucy Worsley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this iconic woman in a new light.... |
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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Lucy Inglis · Pegasus Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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An intelligent and authoritative history of opium -- a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization.Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer... |
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Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life
Albert Louis Zambone · Westholme Publishing
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
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A Major New Biography of a Man of Humble Origins Who Became One of the Great Military Leaders of the American Revolution On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord... |
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning... |
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The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion
Steven R Weisman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The Chosen Wars tells the dramatic story of how Judaism redefined itself in America in the 18th and 19th centuries - the personalities that fought each other and shaped its evolution and, importantly, the force of the American dynamic that prevailed over an ancient religion.The struggles... |
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Louisa on the Front Lines: Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War
Samantha Seiple · Seal Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at Little Women author Louisa May Alcott's time as a Civil War nurse, and the far-reaching implications her service had on her writing and her activism Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa May Alcott's... |
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
David McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story - the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As... |
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Theater of the World: The Maps that Made History
Thomas Reinertsen Berg · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A heavily illustrated four-color history of mapmaking across centuries--a must-read for history buffs and armchair travelers. Theater of the World offers a fascinating history of mapmaking, using the visual representation of the world through time to tell a new story about world history... |
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Figuring
Maria Popova · Pantheon
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries--beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine... |
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Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back
Jackie Speier · Little A
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier.Jackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan's delegation to rescue defectors from cult... |
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