Simon & Schuster
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The Darkest Summer
$24.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed, dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War, when outnumbered and outgunned Marines and GIs executed two of the greatest military operations in history and saved South Ko… [more below]
- Author: Sloan, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1416571752
- Language: English
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
$19.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. For … [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 1416541632
- Language: English
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Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman—And the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America
$20.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was accused, along with her brother-in-law, of killing her… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Alan Pell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0743264673
- Language: English
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St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography
$15.99 Add to cart“Lively and lucid.” —The New York Times Book Review
The most authoritative modern biography of the patron saint of Ireland, focusing on the historical Patrick and his times. Ireland’s patron saint ha- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743256344
- Language: English
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The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece — And Western Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartOn a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered b… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0743244516
- Language: English
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have hel… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0743235940
- Language: English
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Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity
$20.99 Add to cartIn his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, “civilizations” were replacing… [more below]
- Author: Huntington, Samuel P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0684870541
- Language: English
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The Making of the Masters: Clifford Roberts, Augusta National, and Golf’s Most Prestigious Tournament
$19.99 Add to cartThe Masters. For any golf fan, the words evoke the immortal greats of the game and their quest for the most prized trophy of all — the green jacket of Augusta National Golf Club.
But behind the lege… [more below]- Author: Owen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2003
- ISBN10: 0684867516
- Language: English
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Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History
$19.99 Add to cartOver the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovere… [more below]
- Author: Ryan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0684859203
- Language: English
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Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body
$17.99 Add to cartA “brutal, beautifully rendered” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractable polar spa… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Savala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1982137282
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Insects: The Fabulous, Indispensable Creatures Who Run Our World
$18.99 Add to cartThis enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we could not survive without them is “a joy” (The Times, London) and “charming…Highlighting them in all their b… [more below]
- Author: Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1982112883
- Language: English
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Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
$18.00 Add to cartTHE ONLY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CREATOR OF MARY POPPINS
The remarkable life of P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins–perfect for fans of the movie Mary Poppins Returns and the original Disney clas- Author: Lawson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1476762929
- Language: English
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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
$18.99 Add to cartThe untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.
January, 1- Author: Kurlantzick, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1451667884
- Language: English
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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made the Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
$19.99 Add to cart“Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s deft weave of social history and sharp entertainment reporting explains how [The Mary Tyler Moore Show] made the world safe for Lena Dunham” (Peter Biskind, author of Eas
- Author: Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29, 2013
- ISBN10: 1451659229
- Language: English
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartDrawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery.
C- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1439192375
- Language: English
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A Covert Affair
$20.99 Add to cartBy bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were ca
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 1439163537
- Language: English
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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy
$19.99 Add to cartHistorian and Constitution expert David O. Stewart recaps the landmark impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. “The fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, David O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416547509
- Language: English
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The Treatment
$12.99 Add to cartCan Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end? Find out in this “chilling and suspenseful” (Publishers Weekly) second book in Suzanne Yo… [more below]
- Series: Program #2
- Author: Young, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1665942398
- Language: English
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The Adjustment
$12.99 Add to cartTwo teens struggle to recapture their love after one of them goes through The Program in this gut-wrenching fifth book in Suzanne Young’s New York Times bestselling series–now with a reimagined look.… [more below]
- Series: Program #5
- Author: Young, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1665942428
- Language: English
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The Epidemic
$12.99 Add to cartCan one girl help others find closure by slipping into the identities of their loved ones? Find out in this riveting sequel to The Remedy and companion to the New York Times bestselling The Program an… [more below]
- Series: Program #4
- Author: Young, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 166594241X
- Language: English
