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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 >
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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 and a
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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 >
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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The River of Doubt
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Written by Candice Millard
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most... Read more >
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Written by Candice Millard
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.00
At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Enlightenment
And Why It Still Matters
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $32.00
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of... Read more >
And Why It Still Matters
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $32.00
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Hiding Place
Written by Corrie Ten Boom and John Scherrill
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1984
Price: $7.99
“I pray that God forgive them...”
Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi... Read more >
Written by Corrie Ten Boom and John Scherrill
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1984
Price: $7.99
“I pray that God forgive them...”
Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi... Read more >
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The Murder of the Century
The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Written by Paul Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
“No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.”—DAVE EGGERS
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso... Read more >
The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
Written by Paul Collins
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
“No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins.”—DAVE EGGERS
On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso... Read more >
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The Tudors
The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
Written by G.J. Meyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $18.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer provides a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty—and some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. In 1485, Henry Tudor, whose claim to the English throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, nevertheless sailed from France with... Read more >
The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
Written by G.J. Meyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $18.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Acclaimed historian G. J. Meyer provides a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty—and some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. In 1485, Henry Tudor, whose claim to the English throne was so weak as to be almost laughable, nevertheless sailed from France with... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Maus II
A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Written by Art Spiegelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $15.95
***WINNER OF THE 1992 PULIZTER PRIZE***
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story... Read more >
A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Written by Art Spiegelman
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $15.95
***WINNER OF THE 1992 PULIZTER PRIZE***
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story... Read more >
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Written by Anne Frank
Edited by Otto M. Frank and Mirjam Pressler
Translated by Susan Massotty
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1996
Price: $13.00
The basis for and official tie-in edition to the PBS Masterpiece Classic movie titled The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Jon Jones from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach. First airing April 11, 2010.
More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an... Read more >
Written by Anne Frank
Edited by Otto M. Frank and Mirjam Pressler
Translated by Susan Massotty
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1996
Price: $13.00
The basis for and official tie-in edition to the PBS Masterpiece Classic movie titled The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Jon Jones from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach. First airing April 11, 2010.
More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an... Read more >
