Henry: 2809 books
by Henry Morley
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
This volume of "Mediæval Tales" is in four parts, containing severally, Turpin's "History of Charles the Great and Orlando," which is an old source of Charlemagne romance; Spanish Ballads, relating chiefly to the romance of Charlemagne, these being taken from the spirited translations...
Bonnie and Clyde
The Lives Behind the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews
The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood—now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the...
Tecumseh
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. Although Tecumseh literature exceeds that devoted to any other Native American, this is the first reliable biography--thirty years in the making--of the shadowy figure who created a loose confederacy of diverse Indian tribes...
Falling Through the Earth
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year
A daughter's unforgettable memoir of her wild and haunted father, a man whose war never really ended.
From her charismatic father, Danielle Trussoni learned how to rock and roll, outrun the police, and never shy away from...
Divided Loyalties
How the American Revolution Came to New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Before the Civil War splintered the young country, there was another conflict that divided friends and family--the Revolutionary War
Prior to the French and Indian War, the British government had taken little interest in their expanding American empire. Years of neglect had allowed America's...
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown
The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers
The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New...
Night Draws Near
Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
From the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, here is a riveting account of ordinary people caught between the struggles
of nations
Like her country, Karima—a widow with eight children—was caught between America and Saddam. It was March 2003 in proud but...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
George Bush's War by Jean Edward Smith chronicles the complete history of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Smith takes the reader from the politics of Desert Shield to the military action of Desert Storm.
"Expressing constant misgivings about presidential warmaking, [Smith] provides a virtual...
by Henry M. Piironen
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Read them, love them, quote them, the often witty, the often cerebral, and sometimes even hilarious quotes of this book. Find the perpetual diamonds of wisdom and truth, while enjoying the rest.
The Fall of Heaven
The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration
In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's...
Magnitude 8
Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author...
by Henry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The church stands high on the summit of this granite rock, and on its west front is the platform, to which the tourist ought first to climb. From the edge of this platform, the eye plunges down, two hundred and thirty-five feet, to the wide sands or the wider ocean, as the tides recede or advance,...
The Dream of Water
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There--looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips to her grandparents' farm--she relived the memories and...
The Empire and the Five Kings
America's Abdication and the Fate of the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
One of the West’s leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America’s withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind
The United States was once the hope of the world, a beacon of freedom and the defender of liberal democracy. Nations...