Lawrence Goldstone: 15 books
Birdmen
The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
From acclaimed historian Lawrence Goldstone comes a thrilling narrative of courage, determination, and competition: the story of the intense rivalry that fueled the rise of American aviation.
The feud between this nation’s great air pioneers, the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision...
by Lawrence Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
The latest historical thriller by New York Times Notable mystery author Lawrence Goldstone plunges readers into the dramatic events surrounding the assassination of President William McKinley.
Just after 4 p.m. on September 6, 1901, twenty-eight year old anarchist Leon Czolgosz pumped two shots...
Out of the Flames
The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Out of the Flames is an extraordinary story - providing testament to the power of ideas, the enduring legacy of books, and the triumph of individual courage.
Out of the Flames tracks the history of The Chrisitianismi Restituto, examining Michael Servetus's life and times and the politics...
Used and Rare
Travels in the Book World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again.
The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history,...
Deconstructing Penguins
Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Books are like puzzles,” write Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. “The author’s ideas are hidden, and it is up to all of us to figure them out.” In this indispensable reading companion, the Goldstones–noted parent-child book club experts–encourage grownups and young readers alike to adopt...
by Lawrence Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A remarkable new historical thriller by New York Times notable mystery author Lawrence Goldstone that evokes the New York City of 1899.
In 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor’s house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of...
by Lawrence Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote?
In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though...
Lefty
An American Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
**“An intimate portrait of a man whose life off the field was equally as captivating as his unparalleled baseball career.”—Yankees Magazine **
Born into a small-town California ranching family, Vernon “Lefty” Gomez rode his powerful arm and jocular personality across America to the...
by Lawrence Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
On Easter Sunday of 1873, just eight years after the Civil War ended, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed reached the highest court in the land. Yet, following one of the most ghastly...
by Lawrence Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A vividly imagined novel set in sixteenth century France where a young astronomer endeavors to uncover the secret that threatens to overturn Catholicism and the reign of François I.
Paris, 1534.
A student at the Catholic College de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition,...
Higher, Steeper, Faster
The Daredevils Who Conquered the Skies
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Discover the daring aviation pioneers who made the dream of powered flight a reality, forever changing the course of history.
Aviator Lincoln Beachey broke countless records: he looped-the-loop, flew upside down and in corkscrews, and was the first to pull his aircraft out of what was a typically...
The Anatomy of Deception
A Novel of Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer
In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians...
Rights
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
When Fruitful Willis, after years of scraping out a meager living as a bum, discovers that he has been granted a more dignified status as a member of the ‘homeless,’ he stakes a claim on the sidewalk in front of Murray Plotkin’s delicatessen. Murray’s heavy-handed attempts to remove the newly-appointed...
by Lawrence Goldstone
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The controversial history of the attack submarine—and the story of its colorful creator, John Philip Holland—that reveals how this imaginative invention changed the face of modern warfare.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Hunt for Red October, readers the world over have...
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