Wilson: 5374 books
Jefferson on Display
Attire, Etiquette, and the Art of Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
By attending closely to Jefferson’s controversial clothing choices and physical appearance, as well as to his use of portraiture, architecture, and the polite refinements of dining, grooming, and conversation, Wilson shows in fascinating detail how Jefferson's self-presentation served his political agenda.
Dogface Soldier
The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
On July 11, 1943, General Lucian Truscott received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross, for valor in action in Sicily. During his career he also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of...
by Susan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Rick Stanton was a promising professional baseball player with dreams of playing in the major leagues and starting a family with his young wife, Francesca, when World War II changed everything. Rick returns from the war with his body broken and his dreams shattered. But it was not just body and spirit...
The Master Plan
My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The inspiring, instructive, and ultimately triumphant memoir of a man who used hard work and a Master Plan to turn a life sentence into a second chance.
Growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Chris Wilson was so afraid for his life he wouldn't leave the house without a gun. One...
The Long List Anthology Volume 2
More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the...
Shackleton's Heroes
The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The fabled figure of Sir Ernest Shackleton truly personifies the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. But, while the story of his ill-fated 1914–18 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and his crew’s narrow escape from death is legendary, less well known is the staggering tale of the six members...
The Dog Who Saved Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Rescue comes in unexpected ways for one man and his dog in this moving and redemptive novel, The Dog Who Saved Me, by New York Times bestselling author Susan Wilson
Boston police officer Cooper Harrison never thought he'd go back to his hometown, Harmony Farms. But when his faithful K-9 partner...
The Greatest Empire
A Life of Seneca
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
By any measure, Seneca (?4-65AD) is one of the most significant figures in both Roman literature and ancient philosophy. His writings are voluminous and diverse, ranging from satire to disturbing, violent tragedies, from metaphysical theory to moral and political discussions of virtue and anger. Seneca...
by Clyde N. WIlson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this hard-hitting collection of 4 essays, Dr Wilson cuts straight to the chase: YOU WERE LIED TO!
You were lied to about the nature, character, and cause of the American "Civil War," but that is just the start. The entire South—its people, culture, history, customs, both...
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the...
by Mairi Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
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In just a few heartbreaking days, Lexy Shaw's world has fallen apart. After her mother is killed in a tragic hit-and-run, her mother's childhood guardian, Ursula, also dies suddenly, leaving everything to Lexy. But as Lexy reads through Ursula's hidden papers,...
Theodore Roosevelt
Hunter-Conservationist
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
Theodore Roosevelt Hunter-Conservationist reflects the zest for life that was so powerfully characteristic of TR. For decades, Roosevelt's big game hunting books have been among the most often quoted and reprinted of works in that genre. But no definitive biography of Roosevelt as the consummate hunter,...
Waheenee
An Indian Girl's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter." So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 1839 amid a devastated tribe.
In 1906 Gilbert L. Wilson first visited the Fort Berthold...
The Golden Age of Piracy
The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...