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Skywriting
A Life Out of the Blue
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
“Truth arrives in microscopic increments, and when enough has accumulated–in a moment of recognition, you just know. You know because the truth fits. I was the only member of my family to lack the gene for numbers, but I do need things to add up. Approaching midlife, I became aware of a darkening...
All in Good Time
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
All in Good Time is a luminous memoir about growing up in the shadow of the golden age of songwriting and Sinatra, from the celebrated radio personality and novelist Jonathan Schwartz.
“Dancing in the Dark.” “That’s Entertainment.” “By Myself.” “You and the Night and the Music.”...
by James Freud
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The life of a rock star to the brink of death and back - and there again - the most shockingly honest account of alcoholism you will ever read.
'I have performed for royalty, dined with Superman, stood on a stage before 100,000 people and graced the covers of magazines. I lived an enchanted...
Chesty
The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Featured on the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ Reading List and the Chief of Naval Operation’s “Naval Power” Reading List
The Marine Corps is known for its heroes, and Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller has long been considered the greatest of them all. His assignments and activities...
Fierce Patriot
The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape—and the American character.
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America’s first “celebrity”...
Amerigo
The Man Who Gave His Name to America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In 1507, European cartographers were struggling to redraw their maps of the world and to name the newly found lands of the Western Hemisphere. The name they settled on: America, after Amerigo Vespucci, an obscure Florentine explorer.
In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernández-Armesto...
Lilla's Feast
One Woman's True Story of Love and War in the Orient
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
At the end of her life, Frances Osborne’s one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother Lilla was as elegant as ever–all fitted black lace and sparkling-white diamonds. To her great-grandchildren, Lilla was both an ally and a mysterious wonder. Her bedroom was filled with treasures from every exotic...
American Ulysses
A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents
Winner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography • Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History...
American Rose
A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper...
by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie—also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the...
Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Magisterial.”—The New York Times**
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In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything...
Thomas Becket
Warrior, Priest, Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history—the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honor
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
by Edmund Morris
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased...