Blood and Thunder

Written by Hampton Sides

Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $13.99

In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the... Read more >

Roberts Ridge

Written by Malcolm MacPherson

Format: eBook, 350 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2005
Price: $7.99

Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is stranded, alone, surrounded by fanatical al Qaeda fighters. For the man’s fellow Navy SEALs, and for waiting teams of Army Rangers, there was only one rule now: leave no one behind. In this gripping you-are-there... Read more >

All Souls
A Family Story from Southie
Written by Michael Patrick MacDonald

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 28, 2010
Price: $14.95

A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing... Read more >

1948

Written by Yoram Kaniuk
Translated by Anthony Berris

Format: eBook, 190 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $9.99

Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did—and did not—happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful memoir that the author himself considers a work of fiction, for what is... Read more >

Iron Curtain
The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Written by Anne Applebaum

Format: eBook, 608 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $18.99

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its... Read more >

The Children of Henry VIII

Written by Alison Weir

Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $11.99

"Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth... Read more >

How the Irish Saved Civilization

Written by Thomas Cahill

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $11.99

The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.

Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great... Read more >

Theodore Rex

Written by Edmund Morris

Format: eBook, 792 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $11.99

Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States. A hundred years before the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, “TR” succeeded to power in the aftermath of an act of terrorism. Youngest of all our chief executives, he rallied a stricken... Read more >

Robert Oppenheimer
A Life Inside the Center
Written by Ray Monk

Format: eBook, 848 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $18.99

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father... Read more >

Out of Order
Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Written by Sandra Day O'Connor

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $12.99

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give... Read more >