Viking, March 2022. Hardcover. Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last."--Wall Street Journal A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier--shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a...... More
PublicAffairs, February 2022. Hardcover. The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others - rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1988. Oversize Softcover. From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world has established the foundations of our culture, as well as many of its enduring..... More
Bantam Books, June 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkening at margins. Moderate bow to spine. [822 pages]. More
Mariner Books, October 2021. Paper Back. The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II Tensions at Yalta threatened to tear apart..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 2022. Hardcover. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain's eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval..... More
Penguin Press HC, The, October 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize winningauthor of Battle Cry of Freedom, a powerful new reckoning withJefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Hiscause went down in disastrous defeat and left theSouth impoverished for..... More
New American Library, October 2014. Cloth. From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of the Southern population, and earned him a place in history as the..... More
Bantam Books, December 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she entersthe hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, sherededicates herself to writing, and finds love at an unexpected moment.Reflecting on her many roles--from northern coordinator..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2020. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journal. More
The New Press, August 2022. Paper Back. American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself--and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the late Howard Zinn and "an..... More
Anchor, July 2010. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily (USA Today) in post-9/11 Afghanistan, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air. In 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to..... More
Vintage, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his..... More
Three Rivers Press, December 2003. Trade Paperback. A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and..... More
Picador Paper, May 2022. Paper Back. A New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Named a best book of the year by The Economist Financial Times New Statesman The Telegraph [Putin's People] will surely now become the definitive account of the rise..... More
Bantam, September 1989. Turtleback Binding. "The best Churchill biography [for] this generation . . . Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new."--Newsweek In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler's..... More
Beacon Press, July 2016. Trade Paperback. An ordinary Gazan's "devastating contemporary war journal" that chronicles his struggle to survive Israel's invasion of Gaza (Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient) The Drone Eats with Me is an unforgettable rendering of everyday civilian life shattered by the realities of twenty-first-century warfare..... More
Houghton Mifflin, February 2006. Trade Paperback. Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history--the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History A National Book..... More
Penguin Books, March 2020. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner..... More
Owl Books (NY), October 1997. Trade Paperback. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Back shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the impotence of children, especially..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2022. Hardcover. In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world. When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to..... More
City Lights Publishers, January 2018. Paper Back. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate.--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of..... More
Jossey-Bass, March 2009. Trade Paperback. In the second edition of her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers, Gloria Ladson-Billings revisits the eight teachers who were profiled in the first edition and introduces us to new teachers who are current exemplars of good teaching. She shows that culturally relevant teaching is not..... More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line"..... More
Harvard University Press, March 2011. Trade Paperback. "Are you an American, or are you not?" This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question..... More
