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On Gold Mountain
The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.
by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII--from the acclaimed author of Marie Antoinette. Under Antonia Fraser's intent scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen who steadfastly refused to grant a divorce to her royal husband; Anne Boleyn is absolved...
The Civil War: A Narrative
Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war—the assassination of President Lincoln.
Features maps throughout.
"An unparalleled achievement,...
by Rick Bragg
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a national bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born...
A Bright Shining Lie
John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, renowned journalist Neil Sheehan tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel...
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography...
Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In this landmark work of history and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph J. Ellisexplores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our...
The Civil War: A Narrative
Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully...
by Michael Herr
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.
From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor...
Jesse James
Last Rebel of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much...
The Civil War: A Narrative
Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War.
Includes maps throughout.
"This, then,...
A Venetian Affair
A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father....
The Catcher Was a Spy
The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
**Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd
“A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. . . . . Relentlessly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review**
Moe Berg is the only major-league baseball player...
Angels and Ages
A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world. Here...