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After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading
Center for Railroad Photography & Art - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, After Promontory: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading profiles the history and heritage of this historic event. Starting with the original... |
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Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity
Amy Brady - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation - from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today - and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet.. Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals,... |
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Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II
Alex Kershaw - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War. General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued the troops daily... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller. In the most ambitious one volume American history in decades, award winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American... |
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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Dawidziak - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful,... |
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The Curse of Oak Island
RANDALL SULLIVAN - ATLANTIC MONTHLY
Format: Print book
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In 1795, a teenager discovered a mysterious circular depression in the ground on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ignited rumors of buried treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when they reached a depth... |
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