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We Two
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $18.00
It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Price: $18.00
It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >
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Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world.
At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By... Read more >
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world.
At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By... Read more >
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Freedom's Battle
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $17.95
This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action... Read more >
The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
Written by Gary J. Bass
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $17.95
This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action... Read more >
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $32.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $55.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $55.00
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.50
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Written by Neil Sheehan
Read by Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $27.50
From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold... Read more >
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The Sisters of Sinai
How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Written by Janet Soskice
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $27.95
In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they detected what remains to this day among the... Read more >
How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels
Written by Janet Soskice
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $27.95
In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they detected what remains to this day among the... Read more >
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The Sisters of Sinai
Written by Janet Soskice
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $27.95
In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they detected what remains to this day among the... Read more >
Written by Janet Soskice
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $27.95
In 1892, two sisters, identical twins from Scotland, made one of one of most important scriptural discoveries of modern times. Combing the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, they found a neglected palimpsest: beneath an unpreposessing life of female saints, they detected what remains to this day among the... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Runaway Devil
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
Written by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $23.95
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April... Read more >
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
Written by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $23.95
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April... Read more >
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eBook.
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Runaway Devil
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
Written by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $23.95
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April... Read more >
How Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
Written by Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $23.95
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?
In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen–Winston Churchill first among them–the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust... Read more >
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Written by Patrick J. Buchanan
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?
In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen–Winston Churchill first among them–the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust... Read more >
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The Guns of August
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $7.99
Read more >
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: eBook, 640 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2009
Price: $7.99
Read more >
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The State of Jones
Written by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $27.50
Written by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $27.50
New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.
The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the...
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
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The State of Jones
Written by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $27.50
New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.
The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the... Read more >
Written by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $27.50
New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy.
The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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We Two
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $35.00
It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $35.00
It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >
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We Two
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $35.00
It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >
Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Written by Gillian Gill
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $35.00
It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch... Read more >
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Napoleon's Invasion of Russia
Written by George Nafziger
Format: eBook, 704 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $29.00
Read more >
Written by George Nafziger
Format: eBook, 704 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2009
Price: $29.00
Read more >
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World War II Behind Closed Doors
Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
Written by Laurence Rees
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since opening of archives... Read more >
Stalin, the Nazis, and the West
Written by Laurence Rees
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since opening of archives... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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World War II Behind Closed Doors
Stalin, the Nazis and the West
Written by Laurence Rees
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since opening of archives... Read more >
Stalin, the Nazis and the West
Written by Laurence Rees
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $35.00
In this revelatory chronicle of World War II, Laurence Rees, winner of the 2006 British Book Award for History, documents the dramatic and secret deals that helped make the war possible and prompted some of the most crucial decisions made during the conflict.
Drawing on material available only since opening of archives... Read more >
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
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In Europe
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Written by Geert Mak
Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $20.00
Geert Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result... Read more >
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Written by Geert Mak
Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $20.00
Geert Mak spent the year of 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result... Read more >
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Witness
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $27.50
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story
Written by Ruth Gruber
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $27.50
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber–adventurer, international correspondent, photographer, maker of (and witness to) history, responsible for rescuing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II and after–tells her story in her own words and photographs.
Gruber’s life has been extraordinary and extraordinarily heroic. She... Read more >
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Jane Boleyn
The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Written by Julia Fox
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $16.00
In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power–including her own husband and her sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn–Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarch was... Read more >
The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Written by Julia Fox
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $16.00
In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power–including her own husband and her sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn–Jane’s allegiance to the volatile monarch was... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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Lucia
A Venetian Life in the Age of Napleon
Written by Andrea Di Robilant
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.95
In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an... Read more >
A Venetian Life in the Age of Napleon
Written by Andrea Di Robilant
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.95
In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an... Read more >
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And a Bottle of Rum
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
Written by Wayne Curtis
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $14.95
One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails—from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the... Read more >
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
Written by Wayne Curtis
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2009
Price: $14.95
One spirit, Ten cocktails, and Four Centuries of American History
And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of America as seen through the bottom of a drinking glass. With a chapter for each of ten cocktails—from the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
