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The Race for Paris
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
National Bestseller
David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction, Honorary Mention for 2015
The New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters returns with a moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who...
The Smear
How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
New York Times Bestseller
Ever wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.
Behind...
Secret Empires
How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!
Between Gods
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Profound, honest, and masterfully written—Between Gods forces us to reexamine our beliefs and the extent to which they define us.
Growing up in a tight-knit Christian family, Alison Pick went to church regularly. But as a teenager, she discovered a remarkable family secret: her paternal grandparents...
Like Dreamers
The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Winner of the Everett Family Jewish Book of the Year Award (a National Jewish Book Award) and the RUSA Sophie Brody Medal.
In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little...
by Michael Haag
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
From the international bestselling author of The Templars and The Tragedy of the Templars comes a fascinating account of one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in religious history.
Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken...
The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love.
When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from...
Krakatoa
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island...
Capital Dames
The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this...
They All Love Jack
Busting the Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
For over a hundred years, the mystery of Jack the Ripper has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists and endless volumes purporting to finally reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorized Victorian England.
But what if there...
Spoiled Rotten
How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party. In Spoiled Rotten, Cost reveals that the national political organization, first formed by Andrew Jackson in 1824, that has always...
Invasive
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
“Think Thomas Harris’ Will Graham and Clarice Starling rolled into one and pitched on the knife’s edge of a scenario that makes Jurassic Park look like a carnival ride. Another rip-roaring, deeply paranoid thriller about the reasons to fear the future.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Hannah...
Lives in Ruins
Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue! turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jones—the archaeologists who sort through the muck and mire of swamps, ancient landfills, volcanic islands, and other dirty places to reclaim history for us all.
Pompeii,...