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Galileo's Daughter
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's...
Cochrane
The Real Master and Commander
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In this fascinating account of Thomas Cochrane's extraordinary life, David Cordingly (Under the Black Flag and The Billy Ruffian) unearths startling new details about the real-life "Master and Commander"-from his heroic battles against the French navy to his role in the liberation of Chile,...
The Savior Generals
How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Stirring portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson.
"Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book"--The Washington Examiner
Prominent military historian...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World and The Profession of Violence comes the definitive biography of James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming.
It is now over fifty years since the premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, with Sean Connery introducing 007 as the glamorous secret agent...
My Wounded Heart
Life of Lilli Jahn
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
An international sensation already sold in fifteen languages, this heartbreaking collection of recently discovered letters captures the destruction not only of a life but also of an entire nation.
Born in 1900 to wealthy Jewish parents, Lilli Jahn stood firmly among the German bourgeoisie. A doctor...
Résistance
A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance-very likely the first such group to fight back against the occupation. (In fact, their newsletter,...
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror
The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women--Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the French revolution.
Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined...
by Theodore Kazimiroff
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant quest for dignity and peace.
By the 1840s,...
Dork Whore
My Travels Through Asia as a Twenty-Year-Old Pseudo-Virgin
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Fresh out of the Israeli Army, twenty-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: she is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity.
Dork Whore is a fresh and...
Root and Branch
Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of legal challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling segregation one statute at a time. Root and Branch...
Richard III
A Ruler and his Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
For many, Richard III is an obsession-the Richard III Society has a huge membership, and Shakespeare's Histories have contributed to, if not his popularity, certainly his notoriety. Now, with the discovery of Richard III's bones under a parking lot in Leicester, England, interest in this divisive...
Mathew Brady
Portraits of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The first narrative biography of the Civil War's pioneering visual historian, Mathew Brady, known as the "father of American photography.†?
Mathew Brady's attention to detail, flair for composition, and technical masteryhelped establish the photograph as a thing of value. In the 1840s...
The Revolution of Robert Kennedy
From Power to Protest After JFK
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966, with style and substance that has shaped American politics ever since.
On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother,...
by Ross King
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope...