Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
Empires at War
The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754-1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Empires at War captures the sweeping panorama of this first world war, especially in its descriptions of the strategy and intensity of the engagements in North America, many of them epic struggles between armies in the wilderness. William M. Fowler Jr. views the conflict both from British prime minister...
by Lucie Whitehouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
How far would you go to protect the people you love?
The day Marianne Glass falls to her death, Rowan Winter hasn't spoken to her in ten years. Yet Rowan knows it couldn't have been an accident as everyone insists. Marianne, once her closest friend, had paralyzing vertigo: she would never have...
White Beech
The Rainforest Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
For years I had wandered Australia with an aching heart. Everywhere I had ever travelled across the vast expanse of the fabulous country where I was born I had seen devastation, denuded hills, eroded slopes, weeds from all over the world, feral animals, open-cut mines as big as cities, salt rivers,...
A More Perfect Heaven
How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the...
Koh-i-Noor
The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world.
On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the...
by Maryann Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, every day brings new dangers. So when Odette's father is thrown into a work camp and the Nazis suspect her mother of helping the Resistance, Odette is sent to the French countryside until it is safe to return. On the surface, Odette leads the life of a regular girl,...
Beautiful Shadow
A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a...
The First Man-Made Man
The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexual had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. In a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented...
American Crisis
George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The story of the dramatic two years (October 1781-November 1783) after General Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, when the nascent United States was on the brink of immediate collapse.
Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact...
by Kamila Shamsie
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, joins an archaeological dig in Turkey, fulfilling a long-held dream. Working alongside Germans and Turks, she falls in love with archaeologist Tahsin Bey and joins him in his quest to find an ancient silver circlet. But the outbreak...
Salvage the Bones
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Winner of the National Book Award
Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening...
The Last Days of Old Beijing
Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the...
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Search for Common Ground Award
Middle East Institute Award
Finalist, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
Stavros Niarchos Prize for Survivorship
Nobel Peace Prize nominee
"A necessary lesson against hatred and revenge" -Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"In...
Armed Humanitarians
The Rise of the Nation Builders
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In May 2003, President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq. But
while we won the war, we catastrophically lost the peace. Our failure
prompted a fundamental change in our foreign policy. Confronted with the
shortcomings of "shock and awe," the U.S. military shifted its focus to
"stability...