Broadway imprint: 811 books
Agent Zigzag
A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of 2007
One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 (Entertainment Weekly)
New York Times Best of the Year Round-Up
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Eddie Chapman was...
United States of Jihad
Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A riveting, panoramic look at “homegrown” Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present
Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans—born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere—have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad:...
Last Stop in Brooklyn
A Mary Handley Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
**The third book in the Mary Handley Mystery series features Mary's most dangerous and personal case yet. **
It's the summer of 1894, and an infidelity case has brought PI Mary Handley to a far corner of Brooklyn: Coney Island. In the midst of her investigation, Mary is contacted by a convicted...
Major Conflict
One Gay Man's Life in the Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell Military
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A book that will move hearts and open minds, Jeffrey McGowan’s memoir is the first personal account of a gay man’s silent struggle in the don’t-ask-don’t-tell military, from a cadet who rose to the rank of major, left as a decorated Persian Gulf hero, and whose same-sex marriage was the first...
A Journal for Jordan
A Story of Love and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an...
The Invisible Front
Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic.
Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons, Jeff...
The First Princess of Wales
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
The daughter of a disgraced earl, she matched wits with a prince.
It is the fourteenth century, the height of the Medieval Age, and at the court of King Edward III of England, chivalry is loudly praised while treachery runs rampant. When the lovely and high-spirited Joan of Kent is sent to...
by Frank E. Vandiver
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
For the millions who want to know more about “The Greatest Generation” and the global struggle they fought and won, an essential work of popular reference.
World War II was the most complex, geographically extensive, and momentous global conflict in human history–a subject uniquely suited...
Pride of Family
Four Generations of American Women of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“From the moment I read the words [my great-grandmother] Frances Anne Rollin wrote in Boston on January 1, 1868—“The year renews its birth today with all its hopes and sorrows”—she became my beacon, the foremother who would finally share with me our collective past . . . —From the Preface
Originally...
In a Different Key
The Story of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
**Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
An extraordinary narrative history of autism: the riveting story of parents fighting for their children ’s civil rights; of doctors struggling to define autism; of ingenuity, self-advocacy, and profound social change.**
Nearly...
Almost Midnight
An American Story of Murder and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
The haunting true story of a triple murder in the Ozarks, two lovers on the lam, and a death-row inmate saved by the pope.
On a spring day more than ten years ago, sixty-nine-year-old Lloyd Lawrence was gunned down in rural Missouri. The shooter also turned his twelve-gauge shotgun on Lawrence’s...
Skyjack
The Hunt for D. B. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The true story of the unsolved 1971 Northwest Orient airplane hijacking, Skyjack reopens one of the greatest cold cases of the 20th century.
“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.”
That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest...
The Illustrious Dead
The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
“Gripping . . . a compelling story of personal hubris and humbling defeat.”
—Jack Weatherford,author of the New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the
Modern World
In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy...
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly
The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.
“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote...