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Adios! America
Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for t...Book Details
Author : Coulter, Ann
Publish : June 1, 2015
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
¡Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole
“The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour.
Although many books on Gettysburg have addressed the role played by Brig. Gen. John Buford and his First Cavalry Division troops, there is not a single book-length study devoted entirely to the critical delaying actions waged by Buford and his dismounted troopers and his horse artillerists on the mo...Book Details
Author : Wittenberg, Eric J
Publish : October 19, 2014
Publisher : Savas Beatie
“The Devil’s to Pay”: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour.
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war years...Book Details
Author : Conant, Jennet
Publish : May 8, 2006
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
11/22/1963
Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald....Book Details
Author : King, Stephen
Publish : July 24, 2012
Publisher : Turtleback Books
11/22/1963
1177 The Year Civilization Collapsed
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the Sea Peoples invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about ...Book Details
Author : Cline, Erich
Publish : March 23, 2014
Publisher : Princeton University Press
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the att...Book Details
Author : Zuckoff, Mitchell
Publish : September 30, 2014
Publisher : Twelve
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilder...Book Details
Author : Mann, Charles C
Publish : October 10, 2006
Publisher : Vintage
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1781 The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination, ...Book Details
Author : Tonsetic, Robert L
Publish : September 2011
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War
500 Days
Kurt Eichenwald--"New York Times" bestselling author of "Conspiracy of Fools "and "The Informant"--recounts the first 500 days after 9/11 in a comprehensive, fly on the wall, compelling page-turner as gripping as any thriller in "500 Days, "master chronicler Kurt Eichenwald lays bare the harrowing d...Book Details
Author : Eichenwald, Kurt
Publish : September 4, 2012
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
500 Days: Decisions and Deceptions in the Shadow of 9/11
81 Days Below Zero
"A riveting...saga of survival against formidable odds" (Washington Post) about one man who survived a World War II plane crash in Alaska's harsh Yukon territory Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 ...Book Details
Publish : June 2, 2015
Publisher : Da Capo Press
81 Days Below Zero: The Incredible Survival Story of a World War II Pilot in Alaska’s Frozen Wilderness
A Curious Madness
In the wake of World War II the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity during the Tokyo war crimes trial. At their conclusion, seven were hanged for their war crimes and almost all the others served lengthy prison sentences. Okawa Shumei, a brilliant ideologue, ...Book Details
Author : Jaffe, Eric
Publish : January 14, 2014
Publisher : Scribner
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War II
A Deadly Wandering - A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
One of 2014's most original and masterfully reported books, A Deadly Wandering by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Matt Richtel interweaves the cutting-edge science of attention with the tensely plotted story of a mysterious car accident and its aftermath to answer some of the defining questions ...Book Details
Publish : September 23, 2014
Publisher : William Morrow
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likel...Book Details
Author : Dolin, Eric Jay
Publish : August 4, 2020
Publisher : Liveright
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
A Furnace Afloat
In the tradition of Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling In the Heart of the Sea, Joe Jackson's A Furnace Afloat tells of the American clipper ship Hornet, which went down in flames, casting its crew adrift for forty-three days on the open ocean. Along with the stories of the Bounty and the whaleship E...Book Details
Author : Jackson, Joe
Publish : December 2003
Publisher : Free Press
A Furnace Afloat: The Wreck of the Hornet and the Harrowing 4,300-mile Voyage of Its Survivors
A Higher Call
Four days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a twenty-one-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail—a German Messerschm...Book Details
Author : Makos, Adam & Alexander, Larry
Publish : December 2012
Publisher : Dutton Caliber
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror...Book Details
Author : Gibbins, David
Publish : April 2, 2024
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
A Hundred Miles of a Bad Road
Dwight Birdwell's coming of age took place, as it did for many young men of the sixties, in Vietnam. There he fought the war from the command cupola of an M48 Patton tank, an experience far removed from the stereotypical grunt in the rice paddies. The M48 was fifty-two tons of hell on wheels, equipp...Book Details
Author : Birdwell, Dwight W & Nolan, Keith William
Publish : June 1, 1997
Publisher : Presidio Press
A Hundred Miles of Bad Road: An Armored Cavalryman in Vietnam, 1967-68
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny, Vera Atkins climbed her way to the top in the Special Operations Executive, or SOE: Britain's secret service created to help build up, organize, and arm the resistance in the Nazi-occupied countries. Throughout the war, Atk...Book Details
Author : Helm, Sarah
Publish : August 22, 2006
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
A Night of Long Knives
Journalist Hannah Vogel has vowed to never again set foot in her homeland of Germany while the Nazis are still in power. She has good reason: three years ago in 1931, she kidnapped her "son," Anton, from the man claiming to be his father--Ernst Rohm, head of the Nazis' SA. A powerful man not to be t...Book Details
Author : Cantrell, Rebecca
Publish : July 14, 2010
Publisher : Forge
A Night of Long Knives
A People's History of the United States
In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small ag...Book Details
Author : Zinn, Howard
Publish : August 2, 2005
Publisher : Harper Perennial
A People’s History of the United States
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To S...Book Details
Author : Pink, Daniel H
Publish : March 7, 2006
Publisher : Riverhead Books
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
A Wicked War
Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorou...Book Details
Author : Greenberg, Amy S
Publish : November 6, 2012
Publisher : Knopf
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nati...Book Details
Author : Matteson, John
Publish : April 19, 2022
Publisher : W. W. Norton Company
A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam's Firebase Kate
In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietname...Book Details
Author : Albracht, William and Wolf Marvin J
Publish : February 3, 2015
Publisher : NAL
Abandoned in Hell: The Fight For Vietnam’s Firebase Kate
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
Eight men have succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they vastly changed our history. Only Theodore Roosevelt would have been elected in his own right. Only TR, Truman, Coolidge, and LBJ were re-elected. John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison wh...Book Details
Author : Cohen, Jared
Publish : April 9, 2019
Publisher : Simon Schuster
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
Across the Great Divide
Resurrecting a pivotal moment in American history, "Across the Great Divide" tells the triumphant never-before-told story of the young Scottish fur trader and explorer who discovered the way West, changing the face of the country forever.In the heroic tradition of Stephen Ambrose's "Undaunted Courag...Book Details
Author : McCartney, Laton
Publish : August 26, 2003
Publisher : Free Press
Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II--all Medal of Honor recipients--from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same u...Book Details
Author : Kershaw, Alex
Publish : March 22, 2022
Publisher : Dutton Caliber
Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
Agent ZigZag
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one p...Book Details
Author : Macintyre, Ben
Publish : September 7, 2004
Publisher : Crown
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Alexander Hamilton
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a m...Book Details
Author : Chernow, Ron
Publish : April 26, 2004
Publisher : Penguin Press
Alexander Hamilton
All The Ways We Kill and Die - An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
The search for a friend’s killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed. The EOD—explosive ordnance disposal—community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been kill...Book Details
Author : Castner, Brian
Publish : March 1, 2016
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
All the Ways We Kill and Die: An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force
The New York Times bestselling true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of twenty-three comrades-in-arms. In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just be...Book Details
Author : Schilling, Dan and Longfritz, Lori Chapman
Publish : June 25, 2019
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World’s Deadliest Special Operations Force
American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joine...Book Details
Author : Elnoury, Tamer and Maurer, Kevin
Publish : October 23, 2017
Publisher : Dutton Books
American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
American Sanctuary - Mutiny, Martydom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
From "one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profession" (Gordon S. Wood)--a dazzling and original work of history. A. Roger Ekirch's American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Roya...Book Details
Author : Ekirch, A Roger
Publish : February 21, 2017
Publisher : Pantheon Books
American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyle's kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. ...Book Details
Author : Kyle, Chris
Publish : January 3, 2012
Publisher : HarperCollins
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
An Army at Dawn - The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a gras...Book Details
Author : Atkinson, Rick
Publish : October 2, 2002
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway Breaking the Secrets
The former Pacific Fleet intelligence officer recounts the deciphering of Japanese codes before Pearl Harbor, the failures and mishaps that contributed to the disaster, and intelligence activities in the Pacific. Pearl Harbor. 7 December 1941, Japanese bombs and torpedoes slam into the battleship...Book Details
Author : Layton, Edwin T and Pineau, Roger
Publish : January 1, 1985
Publisher : William Morrow & Co
And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway Breaking the Secrets
And the Sea Will Tell
Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily compl...Book Details
Author : Bugliosi, Vincent
Publish : 1991
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
And the Sea Will Tell
Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
This best-selling biography offers readers a lively and compelling portrait of one of the 20th century's greatest businessmen, and provides an avenue to explore industrialism, capitalism, and the rise of big business....Book Details
Author : Livesay, Harold C
Publish : January 1, 1975
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business
Andrew Jackson
The newest addition to Palgrave's Great Generals series focuses on Andrew Jackson's career including his time as a general in Tennessee and his rise up the Army ranks. Jackson's effective use of spies in war time and of martial law in peace time sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberti...Book Details
Author : Remini, Robert V
Publish : September 2, 2008
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Andrew Jackson: A Biography (Great Generals)
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the Presidency was not the exclusive province of the wealthy and the well-born but could truly be held by a man of the people. On a majestic, sweeping scale Brands re-creates Jack...Book Details
Author : Brands, H W
Publish : October 4, 2005
Publisher : Doubleday
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing...Book Details
Author : Shellenberger, Michael
Publish : June 23, 2020
Publisher : Harper
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Area 51: an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn’t exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada’s desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades. Myths and hypotheses abou...Book Details
Author : Jacobsen, Annie
Publish : May 17, 2011
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
Argo
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and held dozens of Americans hostage, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics that still reverberates today. Beaneath this crisis another shocking story was known by only a select few: six Americans escape...Book Details
Author : Mendez, Antonio
Publish : September 13, 2012
Publisher : Viking
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp
The heroic story of eleven American POWs who defied certain death in World War II—As Good as Dead is an unforgettable account of the Palawan Massacre survivors and their daring escape. In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within...Book Details
Author : Moore, Stephen L
Publish : November 22, 2016
Publisher : New American Library
As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp
Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency - From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama
Throughout American history, Presidents and Presidential candidates have faced countless assassination threats and attempts on their lives. These threats have extended not only to sitting Presidents and candidates but also to Presidents-elect and former Presidents. Assassinations, Threats, and the A...Book Details
Author : Feinman, Ronald L
Publish : April 15, 2015
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama
Band of Giants - The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence
Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willi...Book Details
Author : Kelly, Jack
Publish : September 9, 2014
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
In 1861, when war erupted between the States, President Lincoln made an impassioned plea for volunteers. Determined not to remain on the sidelines, Emma Edmonds cropped her hair, donned men’s clothing, and enlisted in the Union Army. Posing in turn as a slave, peddler, washerwoman, and fop, Emma b...Book Details
Author : Reit, Seymour
Publish : April 1, 1988
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy
Benedict Arnold's Navy
In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold's treasonous attempt to hand control of the Hudson River to the British, his patch-work fleet on Lake Champlain was all that stood between British forces and a swift end to the American rebellion. Benedict Arnold's Navy is the dramatic chronicle ...Book Details
Author : Nelson, James L
Publish : May 1, 2006
Publisher : International Marine Publishing
Benedict Arnold’s Navy: The Ragtag Fleet That Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain But Won the American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin - The Religious Life of a Founding Father
Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. B...Book Details
Author : Kidd, Thomas S
Publish : May 23, 2017
Publisher : Yale University Press
Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War
The newest installment in the New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American history From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy’s fi...Book Details
Author : Fisher, David
Publish : June 6, 2017
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies: The Civil War
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
In this fast-paced memoir, Ken Alibek combines cutting-edge science with the narrative techniques of a thriller to describe some of the most awful weapons imaginable. The result will remind readers of The Hot Zone, Richard Preston's smart bestseller about the Ebola virus. That book focuses on the da...Book Details
Author : Alibek, Ken and Handelman, Stephen
Publish : April 20, 1999
Publisher : Random House
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World–Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age”―spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s―when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling...Book Details
Author : Dolin, Eric Jay
Publish : September 18, 2018
Publisher : Liveright
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
Black Flags - The Rise of ISIS
When he succeeded his father in 1999, King Abdullah of Jordan released a batch of political prisoners in the hopes of smoothing his transition to power. Little did he know that among those released was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a man who would go on to become a terrorist mastermind too dangerous even fo...Book Details
Author : Warrick, Joby
Publish : September 29, 2015
Publisher : Doubleday
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal
James “Whitey” Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in return for helping the Feds eliminate Boston’s Italian mafia. But...Book Details
Author : Lehr, Dick
Publish : August 4, 2015
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil’s Deal
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces worki...Book Details
Author : Scahill, Jeremy
Publish : March 8, 2007
Publisher : Nation Books
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won - a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his w...Book Details
Author : Sides, Hampton
Publish : October 3, 2006
Publisher : Doubleday
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonis...Book Details
Author : Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom
Publish : April 20, 2021
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier
Blood Orange
Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise - she's just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems... Just one more night. Then I'll end it. Alison drinks too much. She's neglecting her family. And she's having an affair with ...Book Details
Author : Tyce, Harriet
Publish : February 19, 2019
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Blood Orange
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents. More than forty years after America left Vietnam in defeat in 1975, the war remains controversial and divisive both in the United States and abroad. The history of t...Book Details
Author : Partridge, Elizabeth
Publish : April 10, 2018
Publisher : Viking Books
Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam
Bottled and Sold
Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius," and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don’t the rest of us? Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural reso...Book Details
Publish : April 20, 2010
Publisher : Shearwater
Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
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