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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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D-Day: The Air and Sea Invasion of Normandy in Photos
Nicholas A. Veronico - Stackpole Books
Format: Hardcover
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Those who witnessed it never forgot it: the great armada of Allied ships that filled the English Channel on D-Day, June 6, 1944. From battleships, cruisers, and destroyers down to the much smaller landing ships and landing craft, these nearly 7,000 vessels bombarded the Normandy coast,... |
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Louisa Thomas - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the British-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson... |
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Iraq: A History
John Robertson - ONEWorld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today. Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas,... |
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The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
Antonio J. Mendez - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold WarAntonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late... |
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
Elliott J. Gorn - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered... |
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Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
George Morton-Jack - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite... |
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
Richard Lloyd Parry - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian, NPR, GQ, The Economist, Bookforum, Amazon, and Lit HubThe definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan -- by the Japan correspondent of The Times... |
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Daniel Beer - Vintage
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Cundill History Prize . The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of "the vast prison without a roof" that was Russias Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more... |
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Eat the Apple
Matt Young - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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"The Iliad of the Iraq war" (Tim Weiner) --a gut-wrenching, beautiful memoir of the consequences of war on the psyche of a young man. Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt... |
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy
William Doyle - William Morrow
Format: Print book : English : First edition
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The extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedys path to power hailed as a breathtaking account by James Patterson, masterfully written by historian Douglas Brinkley, and the finest book ever written on the subject by Lt. Commander William Liebenow,... |
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
A J BAIME - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into... |
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The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family
Emer O'Sullivan - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Print book
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The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat.... |
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
Linda Hervieux - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history - a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.In the early hours of June 6, 1944,... |
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America's Gilded Age: An Eyewitness History
Judith Freeman Clark - Facts on File
Format: Print book
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Part of a series of historical references, this volume addresses the period of vast economic and political change that altered the American landscape from 1865 to 1901 by means of eyewitness accounts drawn from speeches, letters, newspaper articles and memoirs. A variety of supporting material... |
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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
MICHAEL KORDA - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - The real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to "read" and "write" our own genetic information?The... |
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Dadland
Keggie Carew - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Print book
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Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. For most of her adult life, Keggie was kept at arm's length from her father's personal history, but when she is invited to join him for the sixtieth anniversary of the Jedburghs... |
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Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
RASHIDA K BRAGGS - University of California Press
Format: eBook
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At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies... |
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Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
James Wright - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of the engagement. Or both. Veterans of the war remain largely anonymous figures, accomplices in the mistake. Critically recounting the steps that led to the war, this book does not excuse... |
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Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810
MICHAEL BROERS - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The second volume in this dynamic three-part life of Napoleon, covering the tumultuous years of 1805 to 1810 -- marking the zenith of Napoleon's power and military might across Europe. The second volume of Michael Broers' three volume life of Napoleon, covering the tumultuous years 1805... |
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The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
J Kael Weston - Alfred A Knopf, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict, The Mirror Test asks that we as a nation look in the mirror and address hard questions about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working... |
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Thornton's Luck: How America Almost Lost the Mexican-American War
Lamont Wood - Lone Star Books
Format: Paperback
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In April 1846, tensions between the U.S. and Mexico along the disputed border were high. About half of the U.S. Army, then tiny, was camped outside of Matamoros, Mexico, and rumors were flying that the much larger and better outfitted Mexican army was about to undertake efforts to remove... |
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Custer: The Making of a Young General
Edward G. Longacre - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer:... |
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Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
LINDA PORTER - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Publishers Weekly called Katherine the Queen "Rich, perceptive, and creative." In Royal Renegades, Porter examines the turbulent lives of the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars.The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January... |
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From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
Jeffrey E. Garten - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments.This is the first book to look at the history of globalization through the lens of individuals who did something... |
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The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
ANDREW LAWLER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America todayIn 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement... |
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
SIMON WINCHESTER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing... |
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American Home Cooking: A Popular History
TIM MILLER - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking.Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy millions of dollars' worth of convenience... |
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Mythos
Stephen Fry - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Here are the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, stylishly retold by Stephen Fry. The legendary writer, actor, and comedian breathes life into ancient tales, from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire, and transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians into emotionally... |
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
BRIAN CASTNER - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling... |
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Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
Anna Beer - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to Great Britain's island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh's famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents... |
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The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath
Garrett Peck - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath -- the Red Scare, race riots, women's suffrage, and Prohibition. The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American... |
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Undersea Warriors: The Untold History of the Royal Navys Secret Service
Iain Ballantyne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible inside story of the Cold War beneath the waves, pitting British and NATOs attack submarines against the Soviets.. Undersea Warrior: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes. This will follow the careers of four daring British... |
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Henry's Men: And the Men Who Made Him
Tracy Borman - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry's life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted... |
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
Nick Bunker - Knopf
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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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
RYAN NORTH - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Get ready to make history. . . better.What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past . . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?Don't worry:... |
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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
Eric Dezenhall - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence... |
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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Plutarch. - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A brilliant new translation of five of history's greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography.Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt... |
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Alliance of Evil
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Maginnis - Defender Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Alliance of Evil establishes that without a doubt the United States and her allies are locked in a prophetic global confrontation on many fronts, a new kind of dual Cold War with the Russians and Chinese. The Russian Federation under a populist authoritarian leader seriously threatens the West... |
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The Last Goodnight
Howard Blum
Format: electronic resource
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The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Dark Invasion, channels Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre in this riveting biography of Betty Pack, the dazzling American debutante who became an Allied spy during WWII and was hailed by OSS chief General "Wild Bill" Donovan as "the greatest... |
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King Arthur: The Making of the Legend
Nicholas J. Higham - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there... |
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St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva
Jonathan Miles - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing, and influential cities in the world. St. Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western... |
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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
DAVID CANNADINE - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians.To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science,... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Julia Baird - Random House
Format: Print book
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This page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience."Victoria... |
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Riding into Battle: Canadian Cyclists in the Great War
Ted Glenn - Dundurn
Format: Paperback
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The untold story of how Canadian Cyclists came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War. Canada's Cyclists spent most of the First World War digging trenches, patrolling roads, and delivering dispatches. But during the Hundred Days campaign at the end of the Great... |
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The Shipwreck Hunter: A Lifetime of Extraordinary Discoveries on the Ocean Floor
DAVID L MEARNS - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This gripping memoir by the world's foremost marine geologist is an enthralling blend of maritime history, popular science, and Clive Cussler-style adventure. David L. Mearns has discovered some of the world's most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battleship HMS Hood... |
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Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist
Linda B. Forgosh - Brandeis University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Louis Bamberger (1855-1944) was the epitome of the merchant prince as public benefactor. Born in Baltimore, this son of German immigrants built his business - the great, glamorous L. Bamberger & Co. department store in Newark, N.J. - into the sixth-largest department store in the country.... |
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When Evil Came to Good Hart, 10th Anniversary Edition
Mardi Link - UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL
Format: Paperback
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In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and reviewing all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical... |
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Our Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your... |
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Charlie Company's Journey Home: The Forgotten Impact on the Wives of Vietnam Veterans
Andrew Wiest - Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The Boys of '67 and the War They Left BehindThe human experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp--the camaraderie, the fear, the smell, the pain. Men were transformed into soldiers, and then into warriors.These warriors had wives who loved them and shared in their transformations.... |
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Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York
Lisandro Pérez - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York. More than one hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959 sparked an exodus that created today's prominent Cuban American presence, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became largest... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder - Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million... |
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The Eternal City: A History of Rome
Ferdinand Addis - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The magnificent and definitive history of the Eternal City, narrated by a master historian. Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization? Ferdinand Addis addresses... |
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Cleopatra's Needles: The Lost Obelisks of Egypt
Bob Brier - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Print book
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In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 - one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left... |
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The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story
Miriam C Davis - Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome... |
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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
Laura Secor - Riverhead Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight - moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black... |
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Once upon a Time It Was Now: The Art & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
James Alexander Thom - Blue River Press
Format: Print book
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While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they... |
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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Civil War Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies
Marianne Monson - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women. North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters, and friends... |
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
Wendy Pearlman - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop... |
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Churchill: Walking with Destiny
ANDREW ROBERTS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark reconsideration of the iconic war leader, based on extensive new material--from private letters to war cabinet meetings-- by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War.When we seek an example of unalloyed courage, the man who comes to mind... |
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Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon
Catherine Hewitt - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Catherine Hewitt's richly told biography of Suzanne Valadon, the illegitimate daughter of a provincial linen maid who became famous as a model for the Impressionists and later as a painter in her own right.In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful... |
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Was Revolution Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution
Tony Brenton - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Communism's rise and eventual fall in Eastern Europe is one of the great stories of the 20th century. Within this context, the Russian Revolution's role and legacy overshadows all else. In Was Revolution Inevitable?, former British Ambassador to Russia Sir Tony Brenton has gathered... |
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Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment
Linda Hirshman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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 LawIn Reckoning, Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social change movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle... |
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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life
Joy Mangano - Simon & Schuster
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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American Empire: A Global History
A. G. Hopkins - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic history and the imperial histories of Britain... |
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"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Annette Gordon-Reed - Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded... |
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Patricia O'Toole - Simon & Schuster
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... |
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The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
Frank Langfitt - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change. China--America's... |
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Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World
JULIO MACLENNAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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An original and innovative examination of the continent -- and its culture -- that was the epicenter of the world for almost five centuries. European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two thirds of today's nations were... |
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La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World
Dianne Hales - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author knighted by the President of Italy for her writing, a jubilant exploration of how Italy transformed the Western world's most vibrant passions -- from literature to art, music to movies. No country has matched Italy's impact on culture.... |
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Brutus: The Noble Conspirator
Kathryn Tempest - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the ancient evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world's most famous assassin Conspirator and assassin, philosopher and statesman, promoter of peace and commander in war, Marcus Brutus (ca. 85-42 BC) was a controversial... |
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Cold Fire: Kennedy's Northern Front
John Boyko - Knopf Canada
Format: Print book
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Forget all you think you know about the Kennedy years. With narrative flair and sparkling storytelling, acclaimed historian John Boyko explores the crucial period when America and its allies were fighting the Cold War's most treacherous battles, Canadians were trading sovereignty for security,... |
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Arkady Ostrovsky - Viking
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written ... much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable." - New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal... |
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The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
Austin Reed - Random House
Format: Print book
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The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer - recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars - sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America. In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a startling manuscript:... |
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First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His--and the Nation's--Prosperity
Edward Lengel - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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The United States was conceived in business, founded on business, and operated as a business - all because of the entrepreneurial mind of the greatest American businessman of any generation: George Washington.Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel... |
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The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise And Fall Of A Fugitive Slave Community
Matthew J. Clavin - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy a free and independent... |
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Michael Wallis - Liveright Publishing Corp
Format: Print book
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Cutting through 160 years of mythmaking, best-selling historian Michael Wallis presents the ultimate cautionary tale of America's westward expansion."WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper... |
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Manal al-Sharif - Simon & Schuster
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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Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America's Special Operations Forces
Mark Moyar - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Oppose Any Foe is the epic story of America's most elite warriors: the Special Operations Forces. Born as small appendages to the conventional armies of World War II, the Special Operations Forces have grown into a behemoth of 70,000 troops, including Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces,... |
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The Vl d'Hiv Raid: The French Police at the Service of the Gestapo
Levi Laub - DoppelHouse Press
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in the early morning hours of July 16, 1942, and lasting for two days, the French police went beyond Nazi ordinances and took it upon themselves to arrest and imprison more than 13,000 Jews at a Paris sporting arena, the Vlodrome d'Hiver. For most of the Jews, this detention... |
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard - Liveright Publishing Corporation
Format: Print book
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A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride... |
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Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond
Sonia Shah - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: eBook
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Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how? Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged. Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will... |
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East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
Philippe Sands - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book
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In 2010, Philippe Sands was invited to give a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity at Lviv University in Ukraine, which he accepted with the intent of learning about the extraordinary city that was home to his maternal grandfather, a Galician Jew who had been born there a century... |
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Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
Daniel C. Guiet - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day.When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family... |
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March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution
Will Englund - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I."We are provincials no longer," declared Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inauguration. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance... |
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The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
Somini Sengupta - W W Norton, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A penetrating, personal look at contemporary India -- the world's largest democracy at a moment of transition.Somini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different... |
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Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
Marc Raboy - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially known, ships... |
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Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Us Presidential Election
Christine A. Kray - University of Rochester Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was "historic" because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for the presidency. Yet the election was also historic... |
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's First Ladies
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle... |
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Women: The National Geographic Image Collection
National Geographic - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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This powerful photography collection, drawn from the celebrated National Geographic archive, reveals the lives of women from around the globe, accompanied by revelatory new interviews and portraits of contemporary trailblazers including Oprah Winfrey, Jane Goodall, and Christiane Amanpour.#MeToo.... |
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The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
MARC AMBINDER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile... |
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Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World
JOHN MAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today.Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive... |
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Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 A World on the Edge
Helen Rappaport - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former... |
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
ZORA NEALE HURSTON - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller"A profound impact on Hurston's literary legacy." - New York Times"One of the greatest writers of our time." - Toni Morrison"Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece." - Alice WalkerA major literary event:... |
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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
Omer Bartov - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level - turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another - as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II.For more than four hundred years, the Eastern... |
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Warship 2018
John Jordan - Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Warship 2018 is devoted to the design, development, and service history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, this latest volume combines original research, new book reviews, warship notes, an image... |
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PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy
William Doyle - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, during a chaotic nighttime skirmish amid the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri barreled through thick fog and struck the U.S. Navy's motor torpedo boat PT 109, splitting the craft nearly in half and killing two American... |
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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Steven Strogatz - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus - how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better. Without calculus, we wouldn't have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn't have unraveled... |
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Secret Jets: A History of the Aircraft Developed At Area 51
BILL YENNE - Crestline Books
Format: Hardcover
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When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension of Edwards Air Force Base has served as a top-secret CIA testing ground for many of the most groundbreaking... |
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
Daniel Kay Hertz - Belt Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the middle class back from the Chicago suburbs to the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the city's North Side. In place of the old, poorly maintained apartments and dense streetscapes of taverns and butchers, "rehabbers"... |
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Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair
Christopher Oldstone-Moore - The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Beards - they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today... |
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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Gordon Thomas - Dutton Caliber
Format: Hardcover
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An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi ruleNazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets... |
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Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
Rashida K Braggs - University of California Press
Format: Print book
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At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies... |
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Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from The San Diego Museum of Art
Marika Sardar - San Diego Museum of Art
Format: Hardcover
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Exploring the topic of narrativity in Indian art, this beautiful and deeply researched book considers illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, the Ramayana, the Ragamala, and a range of texts in the Persian language, notably the Shahnama. Featuring stunning reproductions of paintings made... |
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Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
Francine Klagsbrun - Schocken
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time. Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born... |
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Edward Brooke-Hitching - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding,... |
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Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed
HENRY S F JR COOPER - Open Road Media
Format: Paperback
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An "exciting" minute-by-minute account of the Apollo 13 flight based on mission control transcripts from Houston (The New York Times) . On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they... |
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The 10 Biggest Civil War Blunders
Edward H Bonekemper - Regnery History
Format: Hardcover
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What makes the Civil War so fascinating is that it presents an endless number of "what if" scenarios - moments when the outcome of the war (and therefore world history) hinged on a single small mistake or omission. In this book, Civil War historian Edward Bonekemper highlights... |
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Mississippi and the Great Depression
Richelle Putnam - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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Expertly combining prior scholarship with primary sources, in Mississippi and the Great Depression historian Richelle Putnam details how this crisis impacted the lives of Mississippians during some of our state's most harrowing years. Bringing national events into local settings, and traveling... |
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Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World
Ben Wilson - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format: Print book
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HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. From 1851, in the space of little more than a decade, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. As instantaneous electric communication bridged the vast gulfs that separated human societies,... |
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Lisa McGirr - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this... |
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Lonely Planet Civil War Trail Road Trips
Lonely Planet. - Lonely Planet Pbns
Format: Print book
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Whether exploring your own backyard or somewhere new, discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet's Civil War Trail Road Trips. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations... |
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Biographic Czanne
Katie Greenwood - Ammonite Press
Format: Hardcover
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Many people know that Paul Czanne (1839-1906) was a French painter whose work and influence linked Post-Impressionism and Cubism. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he was best friends with French novelist mile Zola until a disagreement ended their friendship of 34 years; that... |
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Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
Tom Bissell - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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"Expertly researched and fascinating ... Bissell is a wonderfully sure guide to these mysterious men. ... This is a serious book about the origins of Christianity that is also very funny. How often can you say that?" - The Independent A profound and moving journey into... |
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The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes
MALACHY TALLACK - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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In The Un-Discovered Islands, critically acclaimed author Malachy Tallack takes the reader on fascinating adventures to the mysterious and forgotten corners of the map.Be prepared to be captivated by the astounding tales of two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the map.... |
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In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
MAX WALLACE - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction "A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution." -- Kirkus starred review On November 25, 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz heard a deafening... |
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The Lives of the Surrealists
DESMOND MORRIS - Thames & Hudson
Format: Hardcover
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Life histories of the Surrealists, known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement -- artist and best-selling author Desmond MorrisSurrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment... |
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Airborne in 1943: The Daring Allied Air Campaign Over the North Sea
Kevin Wilson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping account of the heroism of bomber planes in 1943 -- the year the "Dambusters" embarked on a campaign to try to win World War II in one quick stroke. The year 1943 saw the beginning of an unprecedented bombing campaign against Germany. Over the next twelve months, tens... |
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Pepper: A Guide to the World's Favorite Spice
Joe Barth - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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If you are interested in pepper--its provenance, history, taste, and uses - then this is a book for you. J.E. Barth recounts the fascinating history of pepper from ancient times through the present and traces the challenges at each step of the pepper supply chain as it make its way from... |
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Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade
John Broich - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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The true account of the British Royal Navy's crusade to put an end to the African slave trade once and for allDespite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade remained down the east coast of Africa through the mid-1800s, even after the Civil War ended it in the United... |
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The Fires of Spring: A Post Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East
Shelly Culbertson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples without cause and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East movement known as the Arab... |
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The Terracotta Warriors: Exploring the Most Intriguing Puzzle in Chinese History
EDWARD BURMAN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China, exploring what we now know about it, what remains hidden, and the fascinating theories that surround its creation.Exciting investigations in northwest China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor,... |
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American Runway: 75 Years of Fashion and the Front Row
BOOTH MOORE - Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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New York Fashion Week has served many purposes throughout its long history, but it has always remained at the center of the American fashion world. During World War II, Fashion Week challenged the dominance of French couture; in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a showcase for American sportswear... |
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled... |
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The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution
Sam Willis - W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth?The American Revolution involved... |
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Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World
GEORGE C DAUGHAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution.George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much... |
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
SARAH SMARSH - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling... |
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Afghanistan War: A Documentary and Reference Guide
Ryan Wadle - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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Providing an invaluable introductory resource for students investigating the war in Afghanistan, this book highlights the evolution of the conflict through the documents that helped to shape it.* Reflects the subject expertise of its editor, a former member of the US Army's Combat... |
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In Search of the Phoenicians
Josephine Crawley Quinn - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search... |
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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical... |
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
MONICA HESSE - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended Summer reading by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, and Elle. A breathtaking feat of reportage, American Fire combines procedural with love story, redefining American tragedy for our time.The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night... |
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The Selling of the Babe: The Deal That Changed Baseball and Created a Legend
Glenn Stout - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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The complete story surrounding the most famous and significant player transaction in professional sports. The sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 is one of the pivotal moments in baseball history, changing the fortunes of two of baseball's most storied... |
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