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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest... |
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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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Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
Brent Underwood - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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A long-abandoned silver mine for sale sounded like an adventure too great to pass up, but it turned into much more - a calling, a community of millions, and hard-earned lessons about chasing impractical dreams.. The siren song of Cerro Gordo, a desolate ghost town perched high above Death... |
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave.In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple,... |
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
Amanda Bellows - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating new history of America, told through the stories of a diverse cast of ten extraordinary - and often overlooked - adventurers, from Sacagawea to Matthew Henson to Sally Ride, who pushed the boundaries of discovery and determined our national destiny.The archetype of the American... |
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
John Matteson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America.December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's... |
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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
Calder Walton - ?Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's... |
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