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A Novel
Written by Alison Weir
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $25.00
Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England’s... Read more >
President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life
Written by Joseph Persico
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $28.00
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was arguably the greatest figure of the twentieth century. While FDR’s official circle was predominantly male, it was his relationships with women–particularly with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd–that most vividly bring to light the human being beneath this towering statesman. It is no coincidence that Rutherfurd was with Roosevelt the... Read more >
The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
Written by Max Hastings
Format: Hardcover, 656 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $35.00
Hailed in Britain as “Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful” (Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph), a riveting, impeccably informed chronicle of the final year of the Pacific war. In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a...
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America from the Revolutionary War to the Present
Written by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing... Read more >
America 1900-1999
Edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
"Immediate and evocative, letters witness and fasten history, catching events as they happen," write Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler in their introduction to this remarkable book. In more than 400 letters from both famous figures and ordinary citizens, Letters of the Century encapsulates the people and places, events and trends that... Read more >
Written by Bill Moyers
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $26.95
Bill Moyers on America today:
“Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our souls demanded by this challenge . . . kindred spirits across the...
A True Tale of Hollywood, Golf, and Armed Robbery
Written by Leigh Montville
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $26.00
He was a 1930s golf legend and Hollywood trickster who adamantly refused to be photographed. He never played professionally, yet sports-writing legend Grantland Rice still heralded him as “the greatest golfer in the world.” Then, in 1937, the secrets of John Montague’s past were exposed—leading to a sensational trial that captivated...
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The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Written by Sun Shuyun
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $14.95
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.
In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and... Read more >
The Story of the Surviviors' Unprecedented Lawsuit
Written by Gerald M. Stern
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $11.95
One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were... Read more >
A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $22.95
An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.
Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched...
