P.S.
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson’s Battle of Trafalgar
$17.99 Add to cart“Strikingly original. . . . Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.” —The Economist
Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0060753625
- Language: English
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A Death in Belmont
$18.99 Add to cart“Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm.” –New York Times Book Review
In the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood, New York Times bestsell
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Junger, Sebastian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0060742690
- Language: English
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American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
$21.99 Add to cartTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPER
Join Chris Kyle on a fascinating journey to discover “how 10 firearms changed United States history” (New York Times Book Review)
Drawing on h
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kyle, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0062242725
- Language: English
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
$16.99 Add to cart“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”
–Miami Herald
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 006082218X
- Language: English
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Summer World
$19.99 Add to cartHow can cicadas survive–and thrive–at temperatures pushing 115 F? Do hummingbirds know what they’re up against before they migrate over the Gulf of Mexico? Why do some trees stop growing taller even
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0060742186
- Language: English
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
$18.99 Add to cartAfter enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the “lucky child,” the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother t
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Ung, Loung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0060733950
- Language: English
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Come Back: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through Hell and Back
$19.99 Add to cartIn powerful parallel stories, mother and daughter give mesmerizing first-person accounts of the nightmare that shattered their family and the amazing journey they took to find their way back to each o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Fontaine, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0061567574
- Language: English
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
$21.99 Add to cart“Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.” —Kirkus Review
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061702625
- Language: English
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Devotion
$19.99 Add to cart“Devotion‘s biggest triumph is its voice: funny and unpretentious, concrete and earthy–appealing to skeptics and believers alike. This is a gripping, beautiful story.” — Jennifer Egan, author of The
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shapiro, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0061628352
- Language: English
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The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
$19.99 Add to cart“A love letter to the ‘largest, loudest, oldest’ mammal ever to have existed…exhilarating.” -People Magazine
Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction,
From his childhood fascination with
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hoare, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061976202
- Language: English
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America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
$21.99 Add to cartRich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Collins, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227226
- Language: English
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COOP: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
$18.99 Add to cart“You can read Michael Perry’s Coop as an outrageously funny comedy about a semi-hapless neophyte navigating the pitfalls (and pratfalls) of the farming life. Please do, in fact. But scratch a little d
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0061240443
- Language: English
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
$19.99 Add to cartArt interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words–with physicis
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227978
- Language: English
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Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a leading authority on the evolution debates comes this critically acclaimed investigation into one of the most controversial topics of our times
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Miller, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0061233501
- Language: English
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The Female Eunuch
$17.99 Add to cart“Like a woman, this book gets better with age. Greer’s punchy prose and all-too-true observations motivate you to go out and do something to liberate yourself-and other women.” — Leora Tanenbaum, aut
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Greer, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 14 2008
- ISBN10: 006157953X
- Language: English
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Death Be Not Proud
$18.99 Add to cart“If courage is the antidote to pain and grief, the disease and the cure are both in this book. . . . A story of great unselfishness and great heroism.” —New York Times
Johnny Gunther was only seventee
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Gunther, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061230979
- Language: English
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
$17.99 Add to cart“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers Weekly
From celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johns
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060930462
- Language: English
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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, the extraordinary World War II mission to rescue survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe memb
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0061988359
- Language: English
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
$17.99 Add to cart“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau–and I loved it.”
–J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar” Connors’s] adventures in rad
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Connors, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0061859370
- Language: English
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
$19.99 Add to cartIn sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman (“Elegant and scrupulous”–New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa (“A mesmerizing page-
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 60884614
- Language: English
