Thomas Dunne Books imprint: 1256 books
Praying for Gil Hodges
A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
On a steamy hot Sunday, the Reverend Herbert Redmond was celebrating Mass at a church in Brooklyn, when he startled his congregation thus: "It's far too hot for a sermon. Keep the Commandments and say a prayer for Gil Hodges."
Praying for Gil Hodges is built around a detailed reconstruction...
Sons of Thunder
Writing from the Fast Lane: A Motorcycling Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
An anthology of the best motorcycle literature from top authors including Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas McGuane, Robert Pirsig, Roald Dahl, Alberto Granado, and T. E. Lawrence
Sons of Thunder is a high-octane anthology that brings together the best in motorcycle writing.
This unique collection...
The Lion of St. Mark
Book One of The Venetians
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
The first book in an adventurous trilogy
The House of Ziani and the House of Soranzo had been enemies ever since their grandfathers' joint business venture had collapsed more than forty years before. Then, they had chosen not to resolve their differences in the courts. Instead, they each sought...
Done in One
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
One bullet equals one kill.
For SWAT sniper Jake Denton, the bullet casings he saves as grim reminders of his "kills" are beginning to add up. His wife, his department-ordered psychiatrist, and even Jake himself are all beginning to question just how these sanctioned kills are affecting...
After Snowden
Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor?
Just how far do American privacy rights extend?
And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security?
These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath of...
The Christmas Angel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
"I lingered over the pages and the years as this special Christmas Angel was handed down from one generation to the next. This is a story that will linger in your mind and in your heart." --Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A charming, heart-warming Christmas tale,...
Aldous Huxley
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2003
When Aldous Huxley died on November 22, 1963, on the same day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, he was widely considered to be one of the most intelligent and wide-ranging English writers of the twentieth century. Associated in the public mind with his dystopian satire, Brave New World, and experimentation...
The Marines of Autumn
A Novel of the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms, and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works. Now, for the first time ever, the Korean War has a novel that captures that courage and sacrifice.
When...
The Peasant Prince
Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a woman above his station), he came to America one month after the signing of the Declaration of...
by Peter Ackroyd
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king...
by Peter Earle
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Investigating the fascination pirates hold over the popular imagination, Peter Earle takes the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoods sailing under the "banner of King Death" and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture and death and the freedom of a short, violent life on the...
Baptism by Fire
Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Americans have long been defined by how they face adversity. This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in how the nation's chief executive has tackled myriad issues upon entering the White House. The ways that U.S. presidents handle the vast responsibilities of the Oval Office determine the fate of...
Fire and Light
How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
"With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that embody the best in Western...
1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence
From the Easter Rising to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
There’s before 1916 and then there’s after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country’s history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group of cranks...