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The Last Leonardo: The Secret Life of the World's Most Expensive Painting
Ben Lewis - Ballantine Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million - and might not be the real thing.For two centuries, art dealers and historians searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait... |
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Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical
Amir Alexander - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man stood at the entrance to the Cathedral of Florence, facing the ancient Baptistery across the piazza. As puzzled passers-by looked on, he raised a small painting to his face, then held a mirror in front of the painting. Few at the time understood... |
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
Bill O'Reilly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal... |
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Symbols, Signs, and Songs
Rick Just - Cedar Creek Press
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
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The first book in the Speaking of Idaho Series, inspired by the popular blog of the same name. It's filled with Idaho history, loosely defined and quirky. Learn about Chicken Dinner Road, Grace Slick's tenuous connection to Idaho, why a governor didn't care for a beloved folk... |
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Valley Forge
BOB DRURY - Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is and Lucky 666 return with an unforgettable and perhaps the most underappreciated chapter in American history - the inspiring, page-turning account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter... |
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His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
Jon Meacham - Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched... |
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Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
Margot Mifflin - Counterpoint
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From an author praised for writing "delicious social history" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals -- and how the pageant, nearing its one hundredth anniversary, serves as an unintended indicator... |
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The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals
Aaron Mahnke - Del Rey
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A chilling, lavishly illustrated who's who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore, now a streaming television series Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as flesh and blood:... |
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The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
Brian Holden Reid - Oxford University Press
Pages: 632
Format: Hardcover
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William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devastated swath of the South from Atlanta to Savannah, cemented his place in history as the pioneer of total... |
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