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Just Watch Me
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
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Just Watch Me
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $33.95
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
Written by John English
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $33.95
This magnificent second volume, written with exclusive access to Trudeau’s private papers and letters, completes what the Globe and Mail called “the most illuminating Trudeau portrait yet written” — sweeping us from sixties’ Trudeaumania to his final days when he debated his faith.
His life is one of Canada’s most engrossing stories... Read more >
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Written by Leanda de Lisle
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $30.00
Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and... Read more >
Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Written by Leanda de Lisle
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $30.00
Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and... Read more >
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Written by Leanda de Lisle
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $30.00
Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and... Read more >
Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy
Written by Leanda de Lisle
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $30.00
Mary, Katherine, and Jane Grey–sisters whose mere existence nearly toppled a kingdom and altered a nation’s destiny–are the captivating subjects of Leanda de Lisle’s new book. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen breathes fresh life into these three young women, who were victimized in the notoriously vicious Tudor power struggle and... Read more >
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Denmark Vesey
The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It
Written by David M. Robertson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the face of the antebellum South. This is the story of a man who, like Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X, is... Read more >
The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It
Written by David M. Robertson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $14.95
In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the face of the antebellum South. This is the story of a man who, like Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X, is... Read more >
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Toussaint Louverture
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
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Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous... Read more >
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous... Read more >
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Armenian Golgotha
Written by Grigoris Balakian
Translated by Peter Balakian and Aris Sevag
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide.
On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic attempt... Read more >
Written by Grigoris Balakian
Translated by Peter Balakian and Aris Sevag
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide.
On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic attempt... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Armenian Golgotha
Written by Grigoris Balakian
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide.
On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic attempt... Read more >
Written by Grigoris Balakian
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $35.00
Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide.
On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic attempt... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Wedlock
The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Written by Wendy Moore
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $25.95
With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of... Read more >
The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Written by Wendy Moore
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $25.95
With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Wedlock
The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Written by Wendy Moore
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $25.95
With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of... Read more >
The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Written by Wendy Moore
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $25.95
With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of... Read more >
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The Code of Love
An Astonishing True Tale of Secrets, Love, and War
Written by Andro Linklater
Format: eBook, 308 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
For fifty years, Pamela Kirrage longed to unlock the secrets of her husband’s encrypted war diary. She was on the verge of giving up when she at last found a mathematician who became as obsessed with learning the secrets of the diary as she was. After months of painstaking investigation, he... Read more >
An Astonishing True Tale of Secrets, Love, and War
Written by Andro Linklater
Format: eBook, 308 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
For fifty years, Pamela Kirrage longed to unlock the secrets of her husband’s encrypted war diary. She was on the verge of giving up when she at last found a mathematician who became as obsessed with learning the secrets of the diary as she was. After months of painstaking investigation, he... Read more >
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The House of Wittgenstein
A Family at War
Written by Alexander Waugh
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth... Read more >
A Family at War
Written by Alexander Waugh
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth... Read more >
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The House of Wittgenstein
A Family at War
Written by Alexander Waugh
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
A Family at War
Written by Alexander Waugh
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward and rebellious youth...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canova’s statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure in her own right.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was... Read more >
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canova’s statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure in her own right.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canova’s statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure in her own right.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was... Read more >
Written by Flora Fraser
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $28.95
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canova’s statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure in her own right.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Portrait of a First Lady
Written by Sylvia Morris
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $19.95
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously unpublished... Read more >
Portrait of a First Lady
Written by Sylvia Morris
Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $19.95
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously unpublished... Read more >
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Angels and Ages
A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
Read more >
A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
Read more >
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Angels and Ages
A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
Read more >
A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
Written by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
Read more >
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A Hidden Life
A Memoir of August 1969
Written by Johanna Reiss
Format: Hardcover, 217 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
For years, Johanna Reiss’ American husband, Jim, encouraged her to return to Holland to chronicle the two years, seven months, and one day she had spent hiding from the Nazis in rural Usselo, Holland. In 1969, she finally made the trip.
Accompanied by Jim and their two young children, Reiss intended to... Read more >
A Memoir of August 1969
Written by Johanna Reiss
Format: Hardcover, 217 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $24.95
For years, Johanna Reiss’ American husband, Jim, encouraged her to return to Holland to chronicle the two years, seven months, and one day she had spent hiding from the Nazis in rural Usselo, Holland. In 1969, she finally made the trip.
Accompanied by Jim and their two young children, Reiss intended to... Read more >
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Growing Up X
Written by Ilyasah Shabazz
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Ilyasah Shabazz has written a compelling and lyrical coming-of-age story as well as a candid and heart-warming tribute to her parents. Growing Up X is destined to become a classic.”
–SPIKE LEE
February 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. June 23, 1997: After surviving for a remarkable twenty-two days... Read more >
Written by Ilyasah Shabazz
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Ilyasah Shabazz has written a compelling and lyrical coming-of-age story as well as a candid and heart-warming tribute to her parents. Growing Up X is destined to become a classic.”
–SPIKE LEE
February 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. June 23, 1997: After surviving for a remarkable twenty-two days... Read more >
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Beneath My Feet
The Memoirs of George Mercer Dawson
Written by Phil Jenkins
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $21.00
George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a canoe. A tough job for anyone, it was an extraordinary achievement for Dawson. Born in 1849... Read more >
The Memoirs of George Mercer Dawson
Written by Phil Jenkins
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $21.00
George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a canoe. A tough job for anyone, it was an extraordinary achievement for Dawson. Born in 1849... Read more >
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The Lincolns
Portrait of a Marriage
Written by Daniel Mark Epstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $16.00
Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this extraordinary and tragic first family has never been fully told. The Lincolns eclipses earlier accounts with riveting new information that makes husband and wife, president and first lady, come alive in all... Read more >
Portrait of a Marriage
Written by Daniel Mark Epstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $16.00
Although the private lives of political couples have in our era become front-page news, the true story of this extraordinary and tragic first family has never been fully told. The Lincolns eclipses earlier accounts with riveting new information that makes husband and wife, president and first lady, come alive in all... Read more >
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eBook.
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Leonardo's Universe
The Renaissance World of Leonardo DaVinci
Written by Bulent Atalay and Keith Wamsley
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $35.00
A veritable rock star in the book world some five centuries after his birth, Leonardo Da Vinci is a man for the ages. Millions of readers hungrily ponder the mysteries behind his sketch-filled notebooks, radical inventions, and enigmatic paintings. This stunning book, like no other on the market, explores the master’s... Read more >
The Renaissance World of Leonardo DaVinci
Written by Bulent Atalay and Keith Wamsley
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $35.00
A veritable rock star in the book world some five centuries after his birth, Leonardo Da Vinci is a man for the ages. Millions of readers hungrily ponder the mysteries behind his sketch-filled notebooks, radical inventions, and enigmatic paintings. This stunning book, like no other on the market, explores the master’s... Read more >
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A Shadow on the Household
One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle for Freedom
Written by Bryan Prince
Format: Hardcover, 296 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $29.95
The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in Canada
Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north from enslavement in the United States to freedom in Canada. Many were... Read more >
One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle for Freedom
Written by Bryan Prince
Format: Hardcover, 296 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $29.95
The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in Canada
Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north from enslavement in the United States to freedom in Canada. Many were... Read more >
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