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Sword and the Grail: The Story of the Grail, the Templars and the
Based on stunning new archaeological evidence, both in the UK and the USA, The Sword and the Grail details the part played by the Order of the Knights of the...
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new...
The Food Truck Handbook: Start, Grow, and Succeed in the Mobile Food
How to start, grow, and succeed in the food truck business. Food trucks have become a wildly popular and important part of the hospitality industry. Consumers are flocking to these...
All The Devils Are Here: Unmasking the Men Who Bankrupted the World
According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, no-one has put all the pieces of the financial crisis together. The finger was pointed at...
The Davis Dynasty: Fifty Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street
A half-century of Wall Street history as seen through the lives of its most illustrious family This compelling new narrative from bestselling author John Rothchild tells the story of three...
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and
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An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also...
Killer Elite: Inside America's Most Secret Special Forces
America's most ultra secret Special Forces unit does not even have a name. It exists to 'undertake activities only when other intelligence or operational support elements are unavailable or inappropriate'....
Press and Speech Under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the
The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment, and with whether the...
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, with
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WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive...
City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
'Courageously broad in its scope, City of Quartz changes intellectual gear - from history to sociology to urban theory - often with consummate ease, and fits its diverse threads together...
African American Art and Artists
Samella Lewis has brought African American Art and Artists fully up to date in this revised and expanded edition. The book now looks at the works and lives of artists...
Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption
Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted lawyer's coming of age, a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring...
Change We Can Believe In
This book details Obama's plan for America's renewal and features eight key speeches from his 2008 presidential campaign. Among the speeches is Obama's declaration of candidacy for the Presidency, his...
The Arrogance of Power: Nixon and Watergate
The biographer of Hoover and Marilyn Monroe turns his skills to the complex story of Richard Nixon, and offers an intimate portrait of the man - and major new revelations....
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton,
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Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the...
We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November
In this carefully researched book William J. Cooper gives us a fresh perspective on the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the firing on Fort Sumter in...
Unbound: A totally unforgettable, must-read sports romance
Paloma Blake is, at best, antagonistic. But beneath the hairspray, attitude, and promiscuity is a scared girl whose trauma runs deep. Still, the walls she's built are strong, ensuring everyone...
Race
This record of contemporary thought in America is about the subject of race as a leading social and political issue. The clock has been turned back on the progress of...
The American Dream: pop to the present
In the early 1960s, American printmaking experienced a dynamic resurgence that placed it at the heart of artistic practice. Such was the medium's attraction that by 1970 virtually every major...
When Skateboards Will Be Free: My Reluctant Political Childhood
The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it. Said Sayrafiezadeh's...
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life-from slave to educator....
York Notes on Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"
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The book titled York Notes on Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" by the author Brian Last. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The World of Louisa May Alcott
This charming illustrated book captures the life of a writer whose work is enjoying a resurgence of popularity, and reveals the reality that inspired the timeless novel.
D-Days in the Pacific: The Us Coast Guard in World War II
Winner of the Foundation for 2008 Coast Guard History Book AwardThe images of soldiers and marines coming ashore on hostile shores are embedded in our collective memory of World War...
The Politics of Hope: The Words of Barack Obama
The election of the first African American as President of the United States was always going to be a moment of immense historical significance but, beyond the fact of his...
When Thunder Rolled
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More than 300 F-105 Thunderchief figher-bombers were lost in the "Rolling Thunder" campaign in North Vietnam because the Air Force brought the wrong strategy, disastrous tactics, and an ill-suited aircraft....
Stamped from the Beginning
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A National Book Award winner The New York Times bestselling history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. "An engrossing and relentless intellectual history...
Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific
The book titled Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific by the author Lyn Crost. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Hurricane Girls
? "The girls' slowly deepening understanding of themselves gives this book its heart. Like their rebuilt city, this friendship cannot reconstitute as an exact replica of what they had before.......
Black Hearts: One platoon's descent into madness in Iraq's triangle of
' Combines elements of In Cold Blood and Black Hawk Down with Apocalypse Now as it builds towards its terrible climax...Extraordinary' New York Times Iraq's `Triangle of Death', 2005. A...
Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
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One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America's most intriguing politicians--the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004--and its profound effects on his career...
Quilts
The book titled Quilts by the author Dennis Duke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dirty Wars: The world is a battlefield
In this story from the frontlines of the undeclared battlefields of the War on Terror, Jeremy Scahill exposes America's new approach to war: fought far from any declared battlefield, by...
The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human cargo. After four days at sea, on a moonless...
U.S. Aircraft Carriers 1939-45
A detailed and fully illustrated account of United States aircraft carriers during World War II. This extensively illustrated volume tells the dramatic yet successful story of US aircraft carriers in...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of
THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS IF SHE REACHED INTO HER HEART, CAPTURED THE RAW EMOTIONS THERE,...
The Music of Bees: The heart-warming and redemptive story everyone
Set in the gorgeous, sprawling countryside of the Pacific Northwest, Eileen Garvin's THE MUSIC OF BEES is about finding friendship in the most unlikely of places, and the families we...
Car Design America: Myths, Brands, People
Car Design America is second in a series on world automotive history. From the streamliner to the show cars of the '50s and '60s, American car design's influence on international...
P-38 Lightning
The innovative P-38 was produced in response to the need for a long range and high altitude fighter to escort the B-17 bomber fleet. A history of the plane from...
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous... Heiresses...
America: The Book
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots deliver a hilarious razor-sharp look at American government. American-style democracy is the world's...
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Absolutely gripping." -- The Washington Post - "A masterpiece of oral history...stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting." --Evan Thomas From the New...
The Rise And Rise Of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the
Here is the definitive portrait of the ultimate power broker by "the toughest, most in-your-face investigative reporter in the U.S.A." (Greg Palast). Dick Cheney sets energy policy. He guided the...
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less
Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. Most Americans think of...
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the
RUSSIAN ROULETTE is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. It weaves together tales of international intrigue, cyber espionage, and superpower rivalry. After U.S.-Russia relations soured, as Vladimir...
Revolutionary Roads: Searching for the War That Made America
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In the ride-along tradition of Sarah Vowell, Tony Horwitz and Bill Bryson, this insightful history revisits the pivotal figures and key turning points of the American Revolutionary War. Revolutionary Roads...
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded on to the comedy scene. By 1978, he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This...
Obama's Wars
Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal...