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Eleanor
David Michaelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired... |
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The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd
Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of Piracy Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas.... |
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Never Give Up: A Prairie Family's Story
Tom Brokaw - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation tells the inspiring, deeply personal story of his own family's greatest generation: his parents, who embodied the can-do spirit that enabled them to survive the Great Depression and World War II, and to help build the American... |
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The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures
AARON MAHNKE - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, beautifully illustrated guide to the monsters that are part of our collective psyche, from the host of the hit podcast Lore, soon to be an online streaming series.They live in shadows - deep in the forest, late in the night, in the dark recesses of our minds. They're spoken... |
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones - One World
Format: Hardcover
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In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred... |
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This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
Jon Mooallem - RANDOM HOUSE
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster--and the unlikely woman around whom it pulled together. In 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis--the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. Then, just... |
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
Ronald Drabkin - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland - a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars - who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up... |
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
Chris Wallace - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday, comes an electrifying behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings and events across the globe during the 116 days leading up to the world's first use of the atomic bomb in wartime - the American attack on Hiroshima... |
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