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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2005

"A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." —New York Times Book Review "Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters."—Sunday Times  (London). "...
by Yunte Huang
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010

Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book: “An ingenious and absorbing book. . . . It will permanently change the way we tell this troubled yet gripping story.”—Jonathan Spence Hailed as “irrepressibly...
by David Kastin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011

The first biography of the legendary Rothschild heiress who reigned as New York’s “Jazz Baroness.” It’s a misty night in 1950s New York. A silver Rolls-Royce screeches to a stop at the neon-lit doorway of a 52nd Street jazz club. Behind the wheel is a glamorous brunette, a chinchilla...
by John F. Kasson
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

"[An] elucidating cultural history of Hollywood’s most popular child star…a must-read." —Bill Desowitz, USA Today For four consecutive years she was the world’s box-office champion. With her image appearing in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily, she...
by Eric Lomax
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014

**Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize The Railway Man is a remarkable memoir of forgiveness—a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past.** Eric Lomax, sent to Malaya in World War II, was taken prisoner by the Japanese and...
by Brian Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

"Brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I’ve ever encountered." —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried An award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as “Sergeant Turner”...
by Mary S. Lovell
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011

"[A] balanced, well-researched, and beautifully written biography....[an] exceptional achievement."—Bay Area Reporter, Tavo Amador The Mitford girls were probably the most spectacular sister act of the twentieth century."—Vogue This is the story of a close, loving family...

Glory Denied: The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War

The Vietnam Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War

by Tom Philpott
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012

Now hailed as a classic, one of the most unforgettable and heartbreaking books ever written about the Vietnam War. Glory Denied is the harrowing and heroic story of Floyd "Jim" Thompson, captured in March 1964, who became the longest-held prisoner of war in American history. Tom Philpott...
by Kayla Williams, Michael E. Staub
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2006

“Brave, honest, and necessary.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR Seattle Kayla Williams is one of the 15 percent of the U.S. Army that is female, and she is a great storyteller. With a voice that is “funny, frank and full of gritty details” (New York Daily News), she tells of enlisting under Clinton;...
by Marguerite Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA Today John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central...
by Ian Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2001

The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time. The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaw's two-volume masterpiece "as close to definitive as anything we are likely to see," and that promise is fulfilled in this stunning second volume. As...
by Philip Pomper
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010

The gripping untold story of a terrorist leader whose death would catapult his brother—Lenin—to revolution. In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia’s tsar. Known as “Second...
by Edmund S. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1982

More than any other single man, George Washington was responsible for bringing success to the American Revolution. But because of the heroic image in which we have cast him and which already enveloped him in this own lifetime, Washington is and was a hard man to know. In this book Edmund S....
by Christopher Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010

"A thoughtful and sophisticated account of a notoriously complicated and controversial period." —R. I. Moore, Times Literary Supplement History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed...
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