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Written by Stephen Bull
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $18.95
Although prolonged warfare in subzero temperatures and/or at high altitude had occurred from time to time before 1900, the twentieth century saw an unprecedented emphasis on fighting in all terrains, seasons and weather conditions. Such conditions made even basic survival difficult as subzero temperatures caused weapons to jam, engines to seize... Read more >
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Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a Nation
Written by Elizabeth Letts
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry’s modest farm on Long Island, he...
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Written by Robert A. Caro
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $14.99
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
NAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"The fourth volume of Caro's prodigious masterwork . . . with the author's signature combination of sweeping drama, psychological insight and painstaking research."
NAMED ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TEN BEST NONFICTION...
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New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Written by Charles C. Mann
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $12.99
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of...
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Written by Victor Villasenor
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1992
Price: $18.00
In Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor weaves the parallel stories of two families and two countries…bringing us the timeless romance between the volatile bootlegger who would become his father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother–men and women in whose lives the real and the fantastical exist side by side…and in whose... Read more >
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An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
Written by William R. Leach
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $32.50
With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled the mysteries of their existence.
A product of William Leach’s lifelong love of butterflies... Read more >
Written by Erik Larson
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $11.99
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 >
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A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War
Written by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $13.99
“The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”—President Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony
In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from entrenched positions, the... Read more >
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Humanity Beyond Our Differences
Written by David Cannadine
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages.
Investigating the six most salient categories of human identity, difference, and...
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Written by E.B. Sledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $16.00
“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 >
