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Jawbreaker
The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
In Jawbreaker Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA’s most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
With his unique mix of clandestine knowledge and paramilitary training, Berntsen represents...
Indian Givers
How Native Americans Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
"As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate." --Washington Post
After 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its...
Born Fighting
How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2005
In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its...
Empire of Blue Water
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three...
Close to Shore
The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2002
Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
In...
Into Africa
The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped...
by Robert Gandt
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war during World War II: Okinawa.
April 1945. The end...
The Alchemy of Air
A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives--including your own.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster: Mass starvation was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world’...
Flapper
A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.
The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own...
The Napoleon of Crime
The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . .
--Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in...
Empire of Sin
A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years...
by Ben Macintyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated— Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces...
Drift
The Unmooring of American Military Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To...
A Lion Called Christian
The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip capturing the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon.
A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall,...