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The Hummingbird's Daughter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Discover an epic historical novel of a young saint escaping death from Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels.
The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century...
What Have We Done
The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**Winner of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars.**
Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence...
MacArthur at War
World War II in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New-York Historical Society
The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestsellerThe Admirals.
World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed...
Dixie Betrayed
How the South Really Lost the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
David Eicher reveals the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. He shows how President Jefferson Davis fought not only with the Confederate House and Senate and with State Governers but also with his own vice-president and secretary of state.
by Frances FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review)
This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years...
Vendetta
Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.
From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other....
The Wilderness
Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The explosive story of the Republican Party's intensely dramatic and fractious efforts to find its way back to unity and national dominance
After the 2012 election, the GOP was in the wilderness. Lost and in disarray. And doggedly determined to do whatever it took to get back to 1600 Pennsylvania...
Rule Number Two
Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to Iraq. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound...
by Library of Congress, Margaret E. Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
With striking visuals from the Library of Congress' unparalleled archive, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ILLUSTRATED TIMELINE OF THE CIVIL WAR is an authoritative and engaging narrative of the domestic conflict that determined the course of American history. A detailed chronological timeline of the war captures...
The Interrogators
Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
An unprecedented look at the front line of the war against terror: the inside story of five American interrogators, thousands of prisoners, and the race for the truth. More than 3,000 prisoners in the war on terrorism have been captured, held, and interrogated in Afghanistan alone. But no one knows...
Inside Camp David
The Private World of the Presidential Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The first-ever insider account, timed to the 75th anniversary of Camp David
Never before have the gates of Camp David been opened to the public. Intensely private and completely secluded, the president's personal campground is situated deep in the woods, up miles of unmarked roads that are...
One Long Night
A Global History of Concentration Camps
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
"Masterly" -- The New Yorker
A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the Year
A groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps
For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere...
Cold
Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a...
Chasing the Devil
My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2004
CHASING THE DEVIL is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer--a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations.
For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer....