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Bridge of Spies - A True Story of the Cold War
Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin's Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first and most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that exchange on February 10, 1962, when their fate helped t...Book Details
Author : Whittell, Giles
Publish : November 9, 2010
Publisher : Broadway Books
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War
Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system from its earliest days, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines. Beginning with "Boston Light," Ame...Book Details
Publish : April 18, 2016
Publisher : Liveright
Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
Bringing Mulligan Home
Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly ever talked about the war. The only sign he'd served in it was a single black and white photograph of himself and another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement, where he would grind steel. After Steve Maharidge’s death, his son Dale, n...Book Details
Author : Maharidge, Dale
Publish : March 12, 2013
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Bunker Hill A city, a Siege, a Revolution
Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until Ap...Book Details
Author : Philbrick, Nathaniel
Publish : April 28, 2013
Publisher : Viking
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down." Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the syst...Book Details
Author : Brown, Dee
Publish : May 15, 2007
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made. In today’s wars, computers,...Book Details
Author : Newman, Rick and Shepperd, Don
Publish : December 18, 2007
Publisher : Presidio Press
Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Cell
There is a reason cell rhymes with hell. On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable ...Book Details
Author : King, Stephen
Publish : January 24, 2006
Publisher : Scribner
Cell
Charlie Wilson's War
Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite ov...Book Details
Author : Crile, George
Publish : April 16, 2003
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press (NYC)
Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
Chasing Gold - The Incredible Story of How the Nazis Stole Europe's Bullion
For the entire history of human civilization, gold has enraptured people around the globe. The Nazis was no less enthralled by it, and felt that gold was the solution to funding Hitler's war machine. Gold was also on the mind of FDR across the Atlantic, as he worked with Europe's other leaders to br...Book Details
Author : Taber, George M
Publish : December 14, 2014
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Chasing Gold: The Incredible Story of How the Nazis Stole Europe’s Bullion
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America Into the Space Age
A charismatic young president issued the historic Moon landing challenge. This book, which greatly expands the companion PBS series, tell the stories of the visionaries--based on eyewitness accounts and newly discovered archival material--who helped America win the space race with the first lunar la...Book Details
Author : Stone, Robert and Andres, Alan
Publish : June 4, 2019
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America Into the Space Age
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction from rising sea levels—part natural history of an extraordinary ecosystem, starring the beloved blue crab; part paean to a vanishing way of life; and pa...Book Details
Author : Swift, Earl
Publish : August 7, 2018
Publisher : Mariner Books
Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
Chickenhawk
A true story from the battlefield that faithfully portrays the horror, the madness, and the trauma of the Vietnam War More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a new afterword by the author and photographs taken by him during the ...Book Details
Author : Mason, Robert
Publish : March 29, 2005
Publisher : Penguin Books
Chickenhawk
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
Frans de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by a much broader audience of politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists for its remarkable insights into very basic human needs and behaviors. In this revised edition―...Book Details
Author : de Waal, Frans
Publish : April 10, 2000
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
City of Scoundrels - The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse. When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of ...Book Details
Author : Krist, Gary
Publish : April 17, 2012
Publisher : Crown
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...Book Details
Author : Kara, Siddharth
Publish : January 31, 2023
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Code Talker
The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII-includes the actual Navajo Code and rare photos. Although more than 400 Navajos served in the military during World War II as top-secret code talkers, even those fighting shoulder to shoulder with them were not told of thei...Book Details
Author : Nez, Chester
Publish : September 6, 2011
Publisher : Berkley
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Confederate Gold and Silver : A story of the lost Confederate treasury and its missing gold and silver
"This historical mystery contains two stories which gradually merge into one. One occurs during 2011, while the other takes place in 1863 during the height of the Civil War. In 2011, after moving to South Carolina, Paul Waring, a retired Connecticut state trooper, and his wife start their new lif...Book Details
Author : Warren, Peter F
Publish : July 17, 2012
Publisher : WestBow Press
Confederate Gold and Silver: A story of the lost Confederate treasury and its missing gold and silver
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World
April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the wo...Book Details
Author : Wallace, Chris and Weiss, Mitch
Publish : June 9, 2020
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
Countdown Bin Laden
On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a three-story house at the end of a dead end street in Abbottabad, Pakistan. But they say it’...Book Details
Author : Wallace, Chris and Weiss, Mitch
Publish : September 7, 2021
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice
Craft: An American History
A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day. At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry, commodities, and technology-while craftspeople and ...Book Details
Author : Adamson, Glenn
Publish : January 19, 2021
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Craft: An American History
Crimes Against Liberty
As Americans, liberty is an inalienable right that is granted to us by God, protected by the Constitution, and upheld by our government. Yet, Barack Obama doesn’t seem to share that view. To him, liberty is a threat to the government’s power and something to be squashed by any means possible, as...Book Details
Author : Limbaugh, David
Publish : August 23, 2010
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama
Crisis of Character - A White House Secret Service Officers Discusses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill and How They Operate
Former Secret Service officer Gary Byrne exposes the truth behind Hillary, Bill, and their public facade. Posted directly outside President Clinton's Oval Office, Former Secret Service uniformed officer Gary Byrne reveals what he observed of Hillary Clinton's character and the culture inside the ...Book Details
Author : Byrne, Gary J
Publish : June 28, 2016
Publisher : Center Street (NY/Boston/Nashville)
Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate
D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WWII
On the basis of 1,400 oral histories from the men who were there, Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose reveals for the first time anywhere that the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944, had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. The true sto...Book Details
Author : Ambrose, Stephen E
Publish : June 6, 1994
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II
Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
From Kevin Maurer—the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day—comes the true story of a World War II bomber pilot who survived twenty-five missions in Damn Lucky, “an epic, thrillingly written, utterly immersive account of a very lucky, incredible survivor of the w...Book Details
Author : Maurer, Kevin
Publish : April 19, 2022
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Damn Lucky: One Man’s Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Dawn of Infamy - A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, even as Japanese carrier–launched aircraft flew toward Pearl Harbor, a small American cargo ship chartered by the Army reported that it was under attack from a submarine halfway between Seattle and Honolulu. After that one cryptic message, the humble lumber carrier Cynthia Ols...Book Details
Author : Harding, Stephen
Publish : November 22, 2016
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Dawn of Infamy: A Sunken Ship, a Vanished Crew, and the Final Mystery of Pearl Harbor
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy—and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all. In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through ...Book Details
Author : Campbell, Matthew and Chellel, Kit
Publish : May 3, 2022
Publisher : Portfolio
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
Dead Presidents - An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterwards of Our Nation's Leaders
An entertaining exploration into the death stories of our nation’s greatest leaders—and the wild ways we choose to remember and memorialize them. In Dead Presidents, public radio host Brady Carlson takes readers to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials to tell the death stories of...Book Details
Author : Carlson, Brady
Publish : February 1, 2016
Publisher : W. W. Norton Company
Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders
Dead Wake - The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats ...Book Details
Author : Larson, Erik
Publish : March 3, 2015
Publisher : Crown Publishers
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dear Mom: A Sniper's Vietnam
In Vietnam's jungle war, only one group of men was feared more than death itself—the Marine Scout Snipers. . . . The U.S. Marine Scout Snipers were among the most highly trained soldiers in Vietnam. With their unparalleled skill, freedom of movement, and deadly accurate long-range Remington 700...Book Details
Author : Ward, Joseph T
Publish : January 1, 1991
Publisher : Ivy Books
Dear Mom: A Sniper’s Vietnam
Death in the Baltic The WWII Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported. January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour ex...Book Details
Author : Prince, Cathryn J
Publish : April 9, 2013
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Death in the City of Lights
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with trac...Book Details
Author : King, David
Publish : September 20, 2011
Publisher : Crown
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Decision Points
In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his des...Book Details
Author : Bush, George W
Publish : November 9, 2010
Publisher : Crown
Decision Points
Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison
During the Vietnam War, hundreds of American prisoners-of-war faced years of brutal conditions and horrific torture at the hands of North Vietnamese guards and interrogators who ruthlessly plied them for military intelligence and propaganda. Determined to maintain their Code of Conduct, the POWs dev...Book Details
Author : Townley, Alvin
Publish : February 4, 2014
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned
Democracy - Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
From the former Secretary of State and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the ...Book Details
Author : Rice, Condoleezza
Publish : May 9, 2017
Publisher : Twelve
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
Desmond Doss Conscientious Objector: The Story of an Unlikely Hero
Infantry men who once ridiculed and scoffed at Desmond's simple faith and refusal to carry a weapon owed their lives to him. In the midst of a fierce firefight on Okinawa that felled approximately 75 men from the 1st Battalion, Private Doss refused to seek cover and carried his stricken comrades to ...Book Details
Author : Doss, Frances M
Publish : September 22, 2015
Publisher : Pacific Press Publishing Association
Desmond Doss Conscientious Objector: The Story of an Unlikely Hero
Desperate Sons
Les Standiford’s Last Train to Paradise, the fascinating true account of the building of a railroad “across the ocean” from Miami to Key West, is already a classic of popular history. With Desperate Sons, the New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Adam Home tells the remarkable story of...Book Details
Author : Standiford, Les
Publish : November 6, 2012
Publisher : Harper
Desperate Sons: The Secret Band of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War
The Destiny of the Republic
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corru...Book Details
Author : Millard, Candice
Publish : September 20, 2011
Publisher : Doubleday
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Devil in the Grove - Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in an explosive and deadly case that threatened to change the course of the civil ...Book Details
Author : King, Gilbert
Publish : March 6, 2012
Publisher : Harper
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt's The Devil's Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful rep...Book Details
Author : Leveritt, Mara
Publish : October 8, 2002
Publisher : Atria Books
Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviator duo: Lieutenant Tom Hudner, a white New Englander from the country-club scene, and Ensign Jesse Brown, an African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi. Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighter planes for his countr...Book Details
Author : Makos, Adam
Publish : December 2015
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
Doctor Sleep
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranorm...Book Details
Author : King, Stephen
Publish : September 24, 2013
Publisher : Scribner
Doctor Sleep
Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command
The Army does not want you to read this book. It does not want to advertise its detention system that coddles enemy fighters while putting American soldiers at risk. It does not want to reveal the new lawyered-up Pentagon war ethic that prosecutes U.S. soldiers and Marines while setting free spies w...Book Details
Author : Vincent, Lynn and Hill, Roger (Captain)
Publish : April 11, 2017
Publisher : Center Street
Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command
Double Agent
The never-before-told tale of the German-American who spearheaded a covert mission to infiltrate New York’s Nazi underground in the days leading up to World War II—the most successful counterespionage operation in US history. From the time Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933, German spies we...Book Details
Author : Duffy, Peter
Publish : July 22, 2014
Publisher : Scribner
Double Agent: The First Hero of World War II and How the FBI Outwitted and Destroyed a Nazi Spy Ring
Double-cross - The True Story of the D-Day Spies
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude, which protected and enabled the invasion, and the Double Cross ...Book Details
Author : Macintyre, Ben
Publish : July 31. 2012
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to h...Book Details
Author : Pink, Daniel H
Publish : December 29, 2009
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida
America's wettest state is running out of water. Florida--with its swamps, lakes, extensive coastlines, and legions of life-giving springs--faces a drinking water crisis. Drying Up is a wake-up call and a hard look at what the future holds for those who call Florida home. Journalist and educator Joh...Book Details
Author : Dunn, John M
Publish : March 12, 2019
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida
Duel with the Devil
Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins’ remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued – a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done. Still our nation...Book Details
Author : Collins, Paul
Publish : June 4, 2013
Publisher : Crown
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery
Dunkirk Retreat to Victory
An account of the British Expeditionary Force's brave stand against the German army and dramatic rescue from Dunkirk. Drawing on previously unpublished and rare material, Julian Thompson recreates the action, from the misunderstandings between the British and French generals to the experiences of th...Book Details
Author : Thompson, Major General
Publish : May 1, 2009
Publisher : Macmillan UK
Dunkirk: Retreat to Victory
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington p...Book Details
Author : Gates, Robert M
Publish : January 14, 2014
Publisher : Knopf
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Einstein: His Life and Universe
By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious natur...Book Details
Author : Isaacson, Walter
Publish : April 10, 2007
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Eisenhower's Armies - The American-British Alliance During World War II
The Anglo-American relationship from 1941-1945 proved to be the most effective military alliance in history. Yet there were also constant tensions and disagreements that threatened to pull the alliance apart. This book highlights why the unprecedented level of cooperation between the very different ...Book Details
Author : Barr, Niall
Publish : December 7, 2015
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Eisenhower’s Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II
Elephant Story
Billy Williams came to colonial Burma in 1920, fresh from service in World War I, to a job as a “forest man” for a British teak company. Mesmerized by the intelligence, character, and even humor of the great animals who hauled logs through the remote jungles, he became a gifted “elephant walla...Book Details
Author : Croke, Vicki Constantine
Publish : July 15, 2014
Publisher : Random House
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
Embattled Rebel - Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy. History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. His cause went down in disastrous defeat and left the South impoverished for generations. If tha...Book Details
Author : McPherson, James M
Publish : October 7, 2014
Publisher : Penguin Press
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice nav...Book Details
Author : Levy, Buddy
Publish : December 6, 2022
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
Empire of Mud The Secret History of Washington DC
Washington, DC, gleams with stately columns and neoclassical memorials today, but for decades it was one of the worst excuses for a capital city the world had ever seen. Unfilled swamps, filthy canals, and rutted horse trails littered its landscape. Beneath pestilential air, the town’s muddy roads...Book Details
Author : Dickey, J D
Publish : September 2, 2014
Publisher : Lyons Press
Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon ...Book Details
Author : Gwynne, S C
Publish : May 25, 2010
Publisher : Scribner
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark
The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and creation of the building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of the structure. Moreover, it is far more than a w...Book Details
Author : Tauranac, John
Publish : April 15, 1997
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark
End of Watch
The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers—In End of Watch, the diabolical “Mercedes Killer” drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don’t figure out a way to stop hi...Book Details
Author : King, Stephen
Publish : June 7, 2106
Publisher : Scribner
End of Watch
Escape from the Deep
By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol, tragedy struck-the Tang was hit by one of her own faulty t...Book Details
Author : Kershaw, Alex
Publish : April 29, 2008
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and her Courageous Crew
Eva Braun: Life with Hitler
In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion to ...Book Details
Author : Görtemaker, Heike B
Publish : October 25, 2011
Publisher : Knopf
Eva Braun: Life with Hitler

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