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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape—the U.S. interstate system changed the face of our country. The Big Roads charts the creation of these essential American highways. From the turn-of-the-century car racing entre...Book Details
Author : Swift, Earl
Publish : June 9, 2011
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
The Big Short
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."—Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, t...Book Details
Author : Lewis, Michael
Publish : March 15, 2010
Publisher : W. W. Norton Company
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Thirst: The Marvels, Mysteries & Madness Shaping the New Era of Water
The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most ...Book Details
Author : Fishman, Charles
Publish : April 12, 2011
Publisher : Free Press
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Blood of Heroes
The gripping and definitive chronicle of the iconic battle that inspired a nation--a sweeping saga of 200 brave Americans who stood tall against an overwhelmingly superior Mexican force. On February 23, 1836, a Mexican army thousands of soldiers strong attacked a group of roughly 200 Americans ho...Book Details
Author : Donovan, James
Publish : May 15, 2012
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo–and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most militar...Book Details
Author : Gladwell, Malcolm
Publish : April 27, 2021
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Book Thieves - The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves—Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book ...Book Details
Author : Rydell, Anders
Publish : February 7, 2017
Publisher : Viking
The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
The Boys on the Tracks
The Boys on the Tracks is the story of a parent's worst nightmare, a quiet woman's confrontation with a world of murder, drugs, and corruption, where legitimate authority is mocked and the public trust is trampled. It is an intensely personal story and a story of national importance. It is a tale of...Book Details
Author : Leveritt, Mara
Publish : November 23, 1999
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
The Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother’s Crusade to Bring Her Son’s Killers to Justice
The Bridgebusters - The True Story of the Catch-22 Bombing Wing
"He had decided to live forever, or die in the attempt." Catch-22" The men of the 57th Bomb Wing flew out of Corsica during World War II and bombed vital bridges throughout Italy to sabotage German supply routes. Their missions were dangerous and never-ending. One bombardier in the wing was a young...Book Details
Author : Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey
Publish : May 9, 2016
Publisher : Regnery History
The Bridgebusters: The True Story of the Catch-22 Bomb Wing
The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the lawyer who sought justice on their behalf, and the shameful lack of protection our society affords all workers A gripping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action and Toms River Working at the ...Book Details
Author : Morris, Jim
Publish : January 23, 2024
Publisher : Beacon Press
The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
The Captured
On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in whit...Book Details
Author : Zesch, Scott
Publish : November 10, 2004
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed “Too Big to Fail” to almost every large corporation in America—to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chic...Book Details
Author : Eisinger, Jesse
Publish : July 11, 2017
Publisher : Simon Schuster
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
The Color of Law - A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions ...Book Details
Author : Rothstein, Richard
Publish : May 2, 2017
Publisher : Liveright
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Confederacy's Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forest
This is the best biography of one of the most exciting, colorful, and controversial figures of the Civil War. A renowned cavalryman, Nathan Bedford Forrest perfected a ruthless hit-and-run guerrilla warfare that terrified Union soldiers and garnered the respect of warriors like William Sherman, who ...Book Details
Author : Wills, Brian Steel
Publish : April 22, 1998
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
The Confederacy’s Greatest Cavalryman: Nathan Bedford Forest
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945
The Conquerors provides a fascinating insight into the behind-the-scenes negotiations during World War II that led to the emasculation of Germany. As Presidents Roosevelt and Truman led the United States in World War II in Europe, they had to deal with the question of what kind of government should ...Book Details
Author : Beschloss, Michael
Publish : October 29, 2002
Publisher : Simon & Schuster (NY)
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945
The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
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 of nin...Book Details
Author : Sullivan, Randall
Publish : December 11, 2018
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World’s Longest Treasure Hunt
The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holocaust and surviving a string of near-death experiences in a Jewish ghetto, a Nazi labor camp, and Auschwitz. Tova Friedman was only four years old when she was se...Book Details
Author : Friedman, Tova and Brabant, Malcolm
Publish : September 6, 2022
Publisher : Hanover Square
The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir
The Day of Battle - The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative histo...Book Details
Author : Atkinson, Rick
Publish : October 2, 2007
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, bu...Book Details
Author : Larson, Erik
Publish : April 30, 2024
Publisher : Crown
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign...Book Details
Author : Moore, Michael Scott
Publish : July 24, 2018
Publisher : Harper Wave
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Devil in the White City
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men...Book Details
Author : Larson, Erik
Publish : February 11, 2003
Publisher : Crown Publishers
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Devil's Causeway
As the United States engaged in a bloody campaign to pacify its newly-won Philippines territory, a secret American mission went terribly wrong, resulting in a prisoner-of-war incident that foreshadowed World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. What happened next was an epic struggle for survival, a test of ...Book Details
Author : Westfall, Matthew
Publish : September 18, 2012
Publisher : Lyons Press
The Devil’s Causeway: The True Story of America’s First Prisoners of War in the Philippines, and the Heroic Expedition Sent to Their Rescue
The Explorers - A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses and Impossible Success
The riveting account of one of history's greatest adventures and a study of the seven character traits all great explorers share. In 1856, two intrepid adventurers, Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, set off to unravel mankind's greatest geographical mystery: finding the source of the...Book Details
Author : Dugard, Martin
Publish : June 3, 2014
Publisher : Simon Schuster
The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success
The Fall of the Ancient Maya - Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse
Ancient Maya civilization thrived in the tropics of Central America for more than a thousand years and produced some of the world's finest architecture and art. Then it mysteriously vanished, leaving a landscape of ruins smothered by forests. The Classic Maya collapse is one of the great puzzles of ...Book Details
Author : Webster, David
Publish : May 1, 2002
Publisher : Thames & Hudson Ltd. (London)
The Fall of the Ancient Maya: Solving the Mystery of the Maya Collapse
The Feud: Hatfields and McCoy
For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, nobody has ever told the in-depth true story of this lege...Book Details
Author : King, Dean
Publish : May 14, 2013
Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys, The True Story
The Fierce Urgency of Now - Lyndon Johnson and Congress and the Battle for the Great Society
Between November 1963, when he became president, and November 1966, when his party was routed in the midterm elections, Lyndon Johnson spearheaded the most transformative agenda in American political history since the New Deal, one whose ambition and achievement have had no parallel since. In just t...Book Details
Author : Zelizer, Julian E
Publish : January 8, 2015
Publisher : Penguin Press
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along w...Book Details
Author : Meltzer, Brad and Mensch, Josh
Publish : January 8, 2019
Publisher : Flatiron Books
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast
A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster—a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman’s relentless battle for e...Book Details
Author : Johnson, Kirk Wallace
Publish : August 9, 2022
Publisher : Viking
The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired l...Book Details
Author : Albom, Mitch
Publish : September 23, 2003
Publisher : Hyperion
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The New York Times bestselling author of the The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything. After being sto...Book Details
Author : Harmel, Kristin
Publish : July 6, 2021
Publisher : Gallery Books
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, this is the full account of Operation Halyard, a story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery....Book Details
Author : Freeman, Gregory A
Publish : September 1, 2007
Publisher : Nal Caliber
The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious OC Death RailwayOCO and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on...Book Details
Author : Urquhart, Alistair
Publish : October 1, 2010
Publisher : Little Brown and Company
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific
The Four Agreements
In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happine...Book Details
Author : Ruiz, Miguel
Publish : January 15, 2001
Publisher : Amber-Allen Publishing
The Four Agreements
The General vs. The President - MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's entry into the war, Truman replied testily, "The military commander in the field will have cha...Book Details
Author : Brands, H W
Publish : October 11, 2016
Publisher : Doubleday
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
The Generals - Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victory in World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms wh...Book Details
Author : Groom, Winston
Publish : November 10, 2015
Publisher : National Geographic
The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
The Ghost Army
In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with truckloads of inflatable tanks, a massive collection of sound-effe...Book Details
Author : Beyer, Rick and Sayles, Elizabeth
Publish : April 28, 2015
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery
The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, t...Book Details
Author : Geroux, William
Publish : May 14, 2019
Publisher : Viking
The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial...Book Details
Author : Larsson, Stieg
Publish : May 23, 2010
Publisher : Knopf
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
The Girl who Played with Fire
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expo...Book Details
Author : Larsson, Stieg
Publish : July 28, 2009
Publisher : Knopf
The Girl who Played with Fire
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced a...Book Details
Author : Larsson, Stieg
Publish : September 16, 2008
Publisher : Knopf
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough. This monumental book is the ent...Book Details
Author : McCullough, David
Publish : May 22, 2012
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Great Crash of 1929
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation'...Book Details
Author : Galbraith, John Kenneth
Publish : April 28, 1997
Publisher : Mariner Books
The Great Crash of 1929
The Great Divide - The conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
A conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Most Americans are unaware of this historical reality. History tends to cast the early years of America in a glow of camaraderie, but there were many conflicts between the Founding Fathers—and none more important than the clash between Was...Book Details
Author : Fleming, Thomas
Publish : March 10, 2015
Publisher : Da Capo Press
The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the...Book Details
Author : Barry, John M.
Publish : February 9, 2004
Publisher : Viking Books
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom
From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 , Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to power, and the brave North Korean fighter pilot who escaped the prison state and delivered the first MiG-15 into American hands In The Great Leader and the Fighter P...Book Details
Author : Harden, Blaine
Publish : March 17, 2015
Publisher : Viking
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom
The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace
In the summer of 1913, under the cover of London’s perpetual smoggy dusk, two brilliant minds are pitted against each other—a celebrated gentleman thief and a talented Scotland Yard detective—in the greatest jewel heist of the new century. An exquisite strand of pale pink pearls, worth more th...Book Details
Author : Crosby, Molly Caldwell
Publish : November 27, 2012
Publisher : Berkley
The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War
In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. Now, they were seeing protesters turn on the troo...Book Details
Author : Donohue, John "Chick" and Molloy, J.T.
Publish : May 2, 2017
Publisher : Sugarwhistle LLC
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War
The Gulf - The Making of an American Sea
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America’s sea—bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience—and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of ...Book Details
Author : Davis, Jack E
Publish : March 14, 2017
Publisher : Liveright
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
The Guns at Last Light - The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished Hitler. In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition fought through North Africa and Italy...Book Details
Author : Atkinson, Rick
Publish : May 14, 2013
Publisher : Henry Holt and Co.
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
The Heart of Everything that is
The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud’s powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the ...Book Details
Author : Drury, Bob & Clavin, Tom
Publish : December 2013
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
The Hornets Nest
The first work of fiction by a President of the United States -- a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of IndependenceIn his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought in the Deep South; it is a saga that will change the way ...Book Details
Author : Carter, Jimmy
Publish : November 11, 2003
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
The Hot House - Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
The most dreaded facility in the prison system because of its fierce population, Leavenworth is governed by ruthless clans competing for dominance. Among the "star" players in these pages: Carl Cletus Bowles, the sexual predator with a talent for murder; Dallas Scott, a gang member who has spent alm...Book Details
Author : Earley, Pete
Publish : March 1, 1992
Publisher : Hardcover
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot"...Book Details
Publish : June 15, 1999
Publisher : Anchor Books
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Hour of Peril
Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the Baltimore Plot, an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War. In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham ...Book Details
Author : Stashower, Daniel
Publish : January 29, 2013
Publisher : Minotaur Books
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
The Hunters Killers
At the height of the Cold War, America's most elite aviators bravely volunteered for a covert program aimed at eliminating an impossible new threat. Half never returned. All became legends. From New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton comes one of the most extraordinary untold stories of aviat...Book Details
Author : Hampton, Dan
Publish : June 2, 2015
Publisher : William Morrow
The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War
The Ice Passage - A True Story of Ambition, Disaster and Endurance in the Artic Wilderness
A thrilling account of suffering and survival, The Ice Passage charts an epic quest from desire to destiny. It begins as a mission of mercy. Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator sets sail in search of them. Instead ...Book Details
Author : Payton, Brian
Publish : October 20, 2009
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, poison, ice picks, tire irons, baseball bats, and bombs, the family man from New Jersey killed for fun,...Book Details
Author : Bruno, Anthony
Publish : March 26, 2013
Publisher : Bantam
The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
The Immortal Irishman
National Book Award winner Timothy Egan delivers a story of one of the most famous Irish Americans of all time. A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for l...Book Details
Author : Egan, Timothy
Publish : March 1, 2016
Publisher : Mariner Books
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
The Iron Brigade: A Military History
This is the story of the most famous unit in the Union Army. Originally called the "Black Hat Brigade" because soldiers wore the army's regular dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, the Iron Brigade was the only all-Western brigade in the Eastern armies of the Union. The brigade was ...Book Details
Author : Nolan, Alan T
Publish : February 1, 1994
Publisher : Indiana University Press
The Iron Brigade: A Military History
The Kamikaze Hunters - Fighting for the Pacific 1945
In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle to control the Pacific. And it was then that the Japanese unleashed a terrible new form of warfare: the suicide pilots, or Kamikaze. Draw...Book Details
Author : Iredale, Will
Publish : May 31, 2016
Publisher : Pegasus Books
The Kamikaze Hunters: Fighting for the Pacific: 1945
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom. We often think of slavery as a southern phenomenon, far removed from the booming cities of the North. Bu...Book Details
Author : Wells, Jonathan Daniel
Publish : October 20, 2020
Publisher : Bold Type Books
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

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