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Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2013 Edition
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $18.99
If you need to know it, it’s in this book. Cracking the AP U.S. History, 2013 Edition includes:
• 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations
• In-depth history review of key and terms and concepts organized by time period, including the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the creation of government and early democracy, the Civil... Read more >
Written by Princeton Review
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $18.99
If you need to know it, it’s in this book. Cracking the AP U.S. History, 2013 Edition includes:
• 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations
• In-depth history review of key and terms and concepts organized by time period, including the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the creation of government and early democracy, the Civil... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Dispensable Nation
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $28.95
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $28.95
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
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Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by Edward Herrmann
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $22.50
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who... Read more >
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Written by Laura Hillenbrand
Read by Edward Herrmann
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 16, 2010
Price: $22.50
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who... Read more >
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Cronkite's War
His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of... Read more >
His World War II Letters Home
Written by Walter Cronkite, IV and Maurice Isserman
Foreword by Tom Brokaw
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $28.00
A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book. Walter Cronkite, an obscure 23-year-old United Press wire service reporter, married Betsy Maxwell on March 30, 1940, following a four-year courtship. She proved to be the love of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Death in the City of Light
The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Written by David King
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.00
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the... Read more >
The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
Written by David King
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.00
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the... Read more >
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $12.99
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search... Read more >
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Written by Isabel Wilkerson
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $12.99
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Return of a King
The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $30.00
The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $30.00
From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West’s greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.
With access to newly discovered primary sources from archives in Afghanistan...
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eBook.
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The Borgias
The Hidden History
Written by G.J. Meyer
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $30.00
The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait... Read more >
The Hidden History
Written by G.J. Meyer
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $30.00
The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone. Sweeping aside the gossip, slander, and distortion that have shrouded the Borgias for centuries, G. J. Meyer offers an unprecedented portrait... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Written by Candice Millard
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $16.00
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Written by Candice Millard
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $16.00
A Booklist Notable Book of 2012
The extraordinary New York Times bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard.
James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever...
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $20.00
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure... Read more >
Written by Robert K. Massie
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $20.00
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure... Read more >
