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Horton Foote
America's Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
No playwright in the history of the American theater has captured the soul of the nation more incisively than Horton Foote.
From his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Young Man From Atlanta, to his film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which received an Oscar, millions of people have been...
Wild Bill Donovan
The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
He was one of America’s most exciting and secretive generals—the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, “Wild Bill” Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country’s first national intelligence...
House to House
An Epic Memoir of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
THE CLASSIC SOLDIER’S MEMOIR FROM MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT STAFF SERGEANT DAVID BELLAVIA
“A rare and gripping account of frontline combat.”—LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty
“They used to say that the real war will never get in the books. Here it does,...
Mrs. Kennedy
The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
New York Times bestselling author Barbara Leaming answers the question: What was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Here for the first time is the full story of the extravagant interplay of sex and politics that constitutes one of modern...
Learning to Die in Miami
Confessions of a Refugee Boy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
In his 2003 National Book Award–winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane—along with thousands...
My Thoughts Be Bloody
The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a lunatic enraged by the Union victory and the prospect...
Ernie Pyles War
America's Eyewitness to World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1999
When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of this American folk hero seemed nearly as great as the loss of the wartime president.
If...
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War II's OSS
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
The battles of World War II were won not only by the soldiers on the front lines, and not only by the generals and admirals, but also by the shadow warriors whose work is captured for the first time in Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs. Thanks to the interviews and narrative skills of Patrick O'Donnell...
The Guerrilla Factory
The Making of Special Forces Officers, the Green Berets
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
With “a fresh, authentic voice” (Publishers Weekly), former Special Forces commander and current instructor Tony Schwalm takes readers deep inside the grueling training on the notorious Q course, required for all Special Forces soldiers before they can join the elite Green Berets that defends our country in nontraditional operations.
by Dmitri Volkogonov
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
The special assistant to Boris Yeltsin radically alters the traditional image of Lenin with a biography based on secret Soviet archives, revealing the Founding Father as a cruel, totalitarian leader who was responsible for the worst excesses of the Soviet state.
A Case for Solomon
Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The spellbinding story of one of the most celebrated kidnapping cases in American history—the kidnapping of Bobby Dunbar—and a haunting family mystery that took almost a century to solve.
THE MOST NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPING CASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar went...
by Mira Bartok
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant literary memoir about family and mental illness. Through stunning prose and original art, The Memory Palace captures the love between mother and daughter, the complex meaning of truth, and family’s capacity...
Mark Twain
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Ron Powers’s tour de force has been widely acclaimed as the best life and times, filled with Mark Twain’s voice, and as a great American story.
Samuel Clemens, the man known as Mark Twain, invented the American voice and became one of our greatest celebrities. His life mirrored his country's,...
Marmee & Louisa
The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Louisa May Alcott was one of the most successful and bestselling authors of her day, earning more than any of her male contemporaries. Her classic Little Women has been a mainstay of American literature since its release nearly 150 years ago, as Jo March and her calm, beloved “Marmee” have shaped...