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British English A to Zed
A Definitive Guide to the Queen's English
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A fun, engaging guide helps you speak the mother tongue like a native.
Whether you are traveling to Great Britain or just want to understand British popular culture, this unique dictionary will answer your questions. British English from A to Zed contains more than 5,500 British terms and their...
Pashtun
A Military Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A black ops expert is pulled into a CIA plot in the Hindu Kush, in an action-packed novel by an author who “writes about Afghanistan as if he’s been there” (Publishers Weekly).
When the Company receives intel that the leaders of both the Taliban and al-Qaeda are holed up in Pashtun country,...
A History of Courtship
800 Years of Seduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Tania O’Donnell takes the reader on a journey from medieval Courtly Love, through to the sexual license of the Restoration, and Victorian propriety. Pick up historical ‘dating tips,’ from how to court (or be courted), write romantic love letters, give and receive gifts, propose and pose as a...
The Longest Year
America at War and at Home in 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This “highly recommended” account of 1944—arguably the most important year in modern history—reads like a suspenseful drama (The History Channel).
Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was “the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of US casualties and in deciding...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Based in part on his own writings, this is the true story about one of America’s most beloved leaders. From president of the board of New York City Police Commissioners, secretary of the Navy, founder of the Rough Riders during the war with Cuba, his time as the governor of New York, to vice president...
The Last Jews of Kerala
The Two Thousand Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Two thousand years ago, trade routes and the fall of Jerusalem took Jewish settlers seeking sanctuary across Europe and Asia. One little-known group settled in Kerala, in tropical southwestern India. Eventually numbering in the thousands, with eight synagogues, they prospered. Some came to possess...
Goering
The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
A penetrating biography of one of the most infamous members of the Nazi high command.
In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use firsthand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking in Hitler’s shadows. After rising through the ranks...
Hacking ISIS
How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News/MSNBC terrorism analyst and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations and terrorism intelligence activities. Chris Sampson...
An Act of State
The Execution of Martin Luther King
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Was the assassination of the Civil Rights leader the act of a lone gunman or a conspiracy? “Forget everything you think you know” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful and eloquent champion of the poor and oppressed in the United States. At the height...
by William Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
While the flames of World War II still raged, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin issued a warning to the Nazi leaders. Those responsible for the torture and murder of millions of innocent and defenseless civilians were promised that "... the three Allied Powers will pursue them to the furthest corners...
Death at the Little Bighorn
A New Look at Custer, His Tactics, and the Tragic Decisions Made at The Last Stand
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
A fresh and fascinating examination of Custer’s Last Stand.
On the hot Sunday afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer decided to go for broke. After dividing his famed 7th Cavalry, he ordered his senior officer, Major Marcus A. Reno, to strike the southern end...
366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency
The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
This innovative blend of biography and history “lets readers browse through a Civil War’s worth of presidential decisions” (Booklist).
In this book, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a detailed breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office, in day-by-day chronological...
by Max Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Shakespeare quotations for every occasion—from pithy jokes and old timey insults to unforgettable insights on love, death, and everything in between.
“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit,” said the world’s most preeminent English writer of all time, William Shakespeare. And we couldn’t...
We Were There
Revelations from the Dallas Doctors Who Attended to JFK on November 22, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Firsthand accounts from the doctors on scene after JFK’s assassination; “a unique addition to the . . . history of the tragedy” (Publishers Weekly).
Photographic images of John F. Kennedy’s assassination are burned into the collective American memory, but very few people were witness...