Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
by Frances Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years,...
Song Man
A Melodic Adventure, or, My Single-Minded Approach to Songwriting
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007
Song man is the endearing sequel to Will Hodgkinson's Guitar Man, wherein our hero, having learned to play guitar (badly) in six months, endeavors to unlock the process of songwriting and ultimately record a single. Featuring pithy, humorous, and illuminating one-on-one songwriting lessons with Keith...
Hip Hop, Inc.
Success Strategies of the Rap Moguls
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
At the heart of hip-hop-the most vigorous, electric development in the music world since the advent of punk rock-are its brilliant entrepreneurs. Some have demonstrated business instinct and marketing savvy that would make many Fortune 500 CEOs envious. Hip-hop and the moguls behind it are a force...
Countdown To My Birth
A Day-by-Day Account of Pregnancy from Your Baby's Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This day by day account of pregnancy will help expecting mothers discover captivating facts like when your baby is the length and weight of a hot dog roll, when the heart begins to beat, when their eyes open and they begin to look around, and 277 additional daily developmental facts beginning with...
The Hedonism Handbook
Mastering The Lost Arts Of Leisure And Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
In the age of Oprah, Dr. Phil, and countless other self-help disciplinarians, indulging in any kind of pleasurable pastime is on the brink of extinction. But it's not too late to revive those lost pleasures that make life worth living. The Hedonism Handbook can help put the three-martini lunch, the...
Shadow Daughter
A Memoir of Estrangement
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A riveting, provocative, and ultimately hopeful exploration of mother-daughter estrangement, woven with research and anecdotes, from an award-winning journalist.
The day of her mother's funeral, Harriet Brown was five thousand miles away. For years they'd gone through cycles of estrangement...
Sex, Mom, and God
How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
“A penetrating analysis of political extremism, with a moving and at times hilarious account of growing up in one of the Christian right’s most influential families. Few writers command Frank Schaeffer’s intimate understanding of right-wing radicalism, and even fewer are able to share their...
Dragon's Jaw
An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A riveting Vietnam War story--and one of the most dramatic in aviation history--told by a New York Times bestselling author and a prominent aviation historian
Every war has its "bridge"--Old North Bridge at Concord, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the railway bridge over Burma's River...
Fire in My Eyes
An American Warrior's Journey from Being Blinded on the Battlefield to Gold Medal Victory
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
"I am not going to let my blindness build a brick wall around me. I'd give my eyes one hundred times again to have the chance to do what I have done, and what I can still do."-Brad Snyder speaking with First Lady Michelle Obama
On the night Osama bin Laden was killed, US Navy Lieutenant...
Desperate Valour
Triumph at Anzio
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A riveting and comprehensive account of the Battle of Anzio and the Alamo-like stand of American and British troops that turned certain defeat into victory
The four-month-long 1944 battle on Italy's coast, south of Rome, was one of World War II's longest and bloodiest battles. Surrounded by...
The Warriors of Anbar
The Marines Who Crushed Al Qaeda--the Greatest Untold Story of the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
A riveting, edge-of-your seat account of how a battalion of Marines faced off against the most brutal of Al Qaeda at its most desperate and vicious moment--and how the Marines decisively crushed the terrorists
When the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment ("2/3") arrived in the little-known...
Cemetery Hill
The Struggle For The High Ground, July 1-3, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
The battle of Gettysburg included many dramatic and controversial moments, several of which involved Cemetery Hill. This book covers in detail the three-day struggle for that crucial high ground from the soldiers' point of view. Using official reports, letters, diaries, and memoirs, it tells how and...
Tempest At Ox Hill
The Battle Of Chantilly
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Every Civil War buff has heard of the Battle of Chantilly, the bloody 1862 engagement fought in a driving rainstorm only twenty miles from Washington that claimed the lives of two of the Union's most promising generals. Yet few have known the full story of courage and human drama because no one has...
Tycoon's War
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Written by a master storyteller, Tycoon's War is the remarkable account of an epic imperialist duel-a violent battle of the capitalist versus the idealist, money versus ambition, and a monumental clash of egos that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans. This incredible true story-impeccably...