St Martin S Griffin imprint: 2039 books
How Far From Austerlitz?
Napoleon 1805-1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A London Sunday Times Book of the Year
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
The Battle of Austerlitz was Napoleon's greatest victory, the culmination of one of the greatest military campaigns of all time. It was also the last battle the "Father of Modern Warfare" would leave in absolute...
by Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
George S. Patton embodied contradiction: a cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private...
Sisqo
The Man Behind the Thong
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2001
This stunning biography of Sisqo follows "The Man Behind the Thong's" life and career.
Sisqo broke into the music scene with his top five album, Unleash The Dragon and never before has the music scene been faced with such a dynamic cross-over artist. Sisqo's life however, has not...
Soundgarden
New Metal Crown
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1995
Soundgarden has hammered together the strands of so many different elements - seventies metal, hard rock, punk, goth-into an alloy that's stronger and harder than any of its constituents, and one which by its very nature stands a little bit beyond definition. Is it metal? Is it punk? Does it really...
Goodbye Christopher Robin
A. A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite’s Whitbread Award-winning biography of A. A. Milne , one of England’s most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph...
Act One
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The Dramatic Story that Capitvated a Generation
With this new edition, the classic best-selling autobiography by the late playwright Moss Hart returns to print in the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication. Issued in tandem with Kitty, the revealing autobiography of his wife, Kitty...
The Heming Way
How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested Retro-Sexual Legend Within, Just Like Papa!
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Marty Beckerman's hilarious guide for the modern man to booze, battle, and bull-fight his way to becoming more like Hemingway
More than fifty years have passed since the death of Ernest Hemingway, history's ultimate man, and young males today—obsessed with Facebook, Twitter, and Playstation—know...
Kerouac
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally...
The Mayor of Castro Street
The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s.
Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even...
by John Mosier
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
A modest and unassuming man, Grant never lost a battle, leading the Union to victory over the Confederacy during the Civil War, ultimately becoming President of the reunited states. Grant revolutionized military warfare by creating new leadership tactics by integrating new technologies in classical...
Front of the Class
How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
As a child with Tourette syndrome, Brad Cohen was ridiculed, beaten, mocked, and shunned. Children, teachers, and even family members found it difficult to be around him. As a teen, he was viewed by many as purposefully misbehaving, even though he had little power over the twitches and noises he produced,...
Cure Unknown
Inside the Lyme Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The groundbreaking, award-winning investigation into Lyme disease—the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience—now with a brand new chapter.
When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found...
We Just Want To Live Here
A Palestinian Teenager, an Israeli Teenager, An Unlikely Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Palestinian Amal Rifa'i and Israeli Odelia Ainbinder are two teenage girls who live in the same city, yet worlds apart. They met on a student exchange program to Switzerland. Weeks after they returned, the latest, violent Intifada broke out in the fall of 2000.
But two years later, Middle East...
by Carolly Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Here is the tragic, stormy life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith, betrayal and treachery-set amidst the splendor, pageantry, squalor, and intrigue of sixteenth-century Europe.
The history of Mary Tudor is an improbable...