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The Black Count
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Written by Tom Reiss
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Written by Tom Reiss
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown...
Also available as an
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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 >
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Written by Anne Frank
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2010
Price: $5.99
The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has... Read more >
Written by Anne Frank
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2010
Price: $5.99
The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has... Read more >
Daily Rituals
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
How Artists Work
Edited by Mason Currey
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $12.99
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through...
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Thunderstruck
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.00
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases... Read more >
Written by Erik Larson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.00
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases... Read more >
Also available as an
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abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
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hardcover.
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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 >
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $16.99
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of... Read more >
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $16.99
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
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eBook and a
hardcover.
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Act of Congress
How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
Written by Robert G. Kaiser
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't
Written by Robert G. Kaiser
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99
An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works—and doesn’t—that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008.
The founding fathers expected Congress to be the most important branch of government and gave it the most power. When Congress is broken—as...
Also available as a
hardcover.
With the Old Breed
At Peleliu and Okinawa
Written by E.B. Sledge
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $7.99
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In The Wall Street... Read more >
At Peleliu and Okinawa
Written by E.B. Sledge
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $7.99
“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom Hanks
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In The Wall Street... Read more >
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Ghost Soldiers
The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Written by Hampton Sides
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2002
Price: $16.00
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the... Read more >
The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Written by Hampton Sides
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2002
Price: $16.00
On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
abridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
