Houghton Mifflin, May 2006. Hardcover. A civil war is being waged among jihadists for the soul of Islam. While all Islamist radicals may share a vision of a purified and unified ummah, or Muslim community, few agree over how to bring it about. Ultra-militant wings, such as Al Qaeda, dominate..... More
Penguin Books, February 1996. Paper Back. Turn-of-the-century East Texas. A world that offers no home for Reuben Sweetbitter, a young half-Choctaw, half-white man. Left as a child to fend for himself after the death of his mother, he finds his uneasy way through the world, searching always for a place..... More
Harper Perennial, September 1981. Trade Paperback. For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and town government."-- "Choice" "An excellently written account of what is known of the life of medieval..... More
HarperCollins, June 2006. Hardcover. More
Delta, June 1996. Paper Back. Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for evidence of miracles. Trapped in a neighborhood of cheap rents and failed promise, in a rent-controlled apartment suddenly, inexplicably seized..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 1990. Hardcover. Charles Glass resigned his position as Chief Middle East Correspondent of ABC News in February of 1987 to begin work on a book chronicling the land, people, and culture of the Levant. On June 18, 1987, he was kidnapped by pro-Iranian terrorists in a...... More
Oxford University Press, November 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Beginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain's colonies. Hundreds of clergy traveled to widely-dispersed posts in North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa under the auspices of the..... More
Random House Inc, September 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket, More
Alice James Books, June 2011. Trade Paperback. This debut collection wanders into the dark, enchanted territory of childhood fables. Poems are parables peopled with archetypes, birthing a world of spells and curses, of daughters betrayed by their own blood, of children vanishing in the woods, and, through it all, a...... More
Knopf, March 1996. Hardcover. This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the..... More
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Cover is stained and coming slightly loose at the front. More
Schocken Books Inc, May 2006. Hardcover. Part of the Jewish Encounter series In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1995. Hardcover. "No Ordinary Time" is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines-- Eleanor..... More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1999. Hardcover. Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it..... More
Berkley Pub Group, June 1980. Oversize Softcover. An illustrated collection of 15 macabre short stories. In this gorgeously detailed volume, American artist and author Edward Gorey accents amphigory (nonsense verse or composition) with his signature cross-hatched pen-and-ink drawings. A mix of poetry and prose, light-hearted and decidedly more morbid storytelling..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, October 2011. First American. Hardcover. In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Gortemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler's mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliche, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion..... More
Saint Mary's Press, November 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. In the middle of the nineteenth century a group of political activists in New York City joined together to challenge a religious group they believed were hostile to the American values of liberty and freedom. Called the Know Nothings, they started riots..... More
Penguin USA, June 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an..... More
Olympic Marketing Corp, September 1985. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. More
Pocket, December 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Pomegranate Communications Inc, January 1998. Postcards. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 1988. Hardcover. Light yellowing and shelf wear on the jacket. More
Villard, June 1993. Hardcover. The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but..... More
William Morrow & Company, February 1991. Hardcover. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam re-creates one of baseball's greatest rivalries--the 1949 Yankees vs. Red Sox. Follow along as the star hitters and the star pitchers meet the rookies, and relive the good old days of American baseball! Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1991. Hardcover. Poems deal with the themes of death, marriage, families, and contemporary life. More
