W. W. Norton & Company, September 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in..... More
Naval Institute Press, January 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Joe Owen tells it like it was in this evocative, page-turning story of a Marine rifle company in the early days of the Korean War. His powerful descriptions of close combat in the blizzard-blown mountains of the Chosin Reservoir and of the..... More
Crown, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come--with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast "Both a thriller and a history..... More
William Morrow & Company, August 2022. Hardcover. From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America. "[A] brilliant and courageous book." --Dr. Cornel West Dangerous Rhythms tells the..... More
St. Martin's Press, March 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the frequent subject of gossip because of her immodest dress and flirtatious behavior. When her wealthy father discovered that..... More
Harper, April 2008. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear. Contains bookplate signed by Charlotte Waisman and Jill Tietjen. More
Gallery Books, October 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America. Featuring more than two hundred rare and never-before-published..... More
Fairplay, 1950. Hardcover. 2nd edition, 1950; Signed by George Marion at front free end-page; Solid binding w/ mild wear at spine, front hinge slightly loose; Grey cloth boards show mild age wear, navy lettering at front and spine is clear, mildly faded at spine; Rear board has approx. five inch..... More
Bradbury, Sayles, O'Neill Company, Inc., 1967. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd printing. Signed & inscribed on half title page: 'For my friend, Norman -- with ver best personal good wishes! Les Nichols, 8-15-76.'; Octavo in black cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Illustrated map of Battle Route of the Tenth Armoured Division..... More
Gallery Books, October 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America. Featuring more than two hundred rare and never-before-published photographs. While..... More
Random House, October 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "In his captivating new book, Jon Meacham has given us..... More
Chronicle Books, October 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience. Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold..... More
Spiegel & Grau, October 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S "BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH"..... More
Lawrence Hill Books, May 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police..... More
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, January 1929. First Edition. Cloth. {5 & 3/4' x 10'} Heavily worn edges with gold lettering (fading & dark stained). Spine is darkened from exposure to light. Slightly cocked spine. Top textblock edge and fore-edge darkened. Signed & inscribed on ffep by -- author, W.H. Townshend. In..... More
Hachette Books, September 2022. Hardcover. The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival..... More
Dutton Adult, May 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The companion volume to the multimillion-copy bestseller No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator. Mark Owen's instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day The Firsthand Account of the Mission that..... More
Histroic Records Association, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto. In edgeworn dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Blue end pages. Black bars presumably covering something else on front free end page.[260 pages] Signed & inscribed: 'with all good wishes, J Winston Coleman..... More
Hachette Books, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances..... More
PublicAffairs, September 2022. Paper Back. From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE..... More
Liveright, September 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company's papers in MIT's archives and set out to..... More
Atria/One Signal Publishers, September 2022. Hardcover. "Moving." --The Washington Post When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come. In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy's former press secretary tells the story..... More
Harper, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Instant New York Times Bestseller "Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it." -- John..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, March 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Watch a video From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates, " an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the..... More
