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Cover of Bride of New France: A Novel
by Suzanne Desrochers
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

A richly imagined novel is about a young French woman sent to settle in the New World. Transporting readers from cosmopolitan seventeenth-century Paris to the Canadian frontier, this vibrant debut tells of the struggle to survive in a brutal time and place. Laure Beausejour has been taken from...
Cover of Library: An Unquiet History
by Matthew Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

"Splendidly articulate, informative and provoking....A book to be savored and gone back to."—Baltimore Sun On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired,...
Cover of City of Ambition: FDR, LaGuardia, and the Making of Modern New York
by Mason B. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

“Fascinating. . . . Williams tells the story of La Guardia and Roosevelt with insight and elegance.”—Edward Glaeser, New York Times Book Review
Cover of Desolation Island (Vol. Book 5) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
by Patrick O'Brian
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011

"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-four."—Stephen...
Cover of Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship
by Richard Aldous
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012

An iconic friendship, an uneasy alliance—a revisionist account of the couple who ended the Cold War. For decades historians have perpetuated the myth of a "Churchillian" relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, citing their longtime alliance as an example of the...
Cover of Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War
by Kayla Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014

When SPC Kayla Williams and SGT Brian McGough met at a mountain outpost in Iraq in 2003, only their verbal sparring could have betrayed a hint of attraction. Neither could have predicted the sequence of events that would shape their lives. Brian, on his way back to base after mid-tour leave,...
Cover of Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict
by Sandra Mackey
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008

How the recent history of Lebanon provides insight into the many trials currently facing the larger Arab community. It is crucial to the interests of the West to grasp the complexities of the Arab world. In this clear, concise volume, Sandra Mackey provides a unique view of this tortured and...
Cover of The Shia Revival (Updates)
by Vali Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

“Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes.” —Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of Books One of America’s leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and...
Cover of Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
by Edith Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014

"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet...
Cover of The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
by Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011

"This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring."—The New Yorker In a book that is "a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle" (Oliver Sacks), Melissa...
Cover of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832

by Alan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s...
Cover of Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate in Vietnam
by Larry Berman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1991

"Stunning....The portrait of the embattled and unyielding president that emerges is vivid and memorable."—Publishers Weekly By 1968, the United States had committed over 525,000 men to Vietnam and bombed virtually all military targets recommended by the joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet,...
Cover of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864
by Edward L. Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004

Winner of the Bancroft Prize: Through a gripping narrative based on massive new research, a leading historian reshapes our understanding of the Civil War. Our standard Civil War histories tell a reassuring story of the triumph, in an inevitable conflict, of the dynamic, free-labor North over...
Cover of The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
by Susan Wise Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2007

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still...
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