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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

Douglas Preston

Preston builds a compelling case for the scientific significance of what the expedition unearthed....The year may still...

The Lost City of Z (Movie Tie-In): A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures)

David Grann

Praise for David Grann's The Lost City of Z "Suspenseful. . . . Rollicking. . . . Reads with all the pace and...

Strange and Obscure Stories of Washington, DC: Little-Known Tales about Our Nation's Capital

Tim Rowland

Sprightly, entertaining, surprising, and often wise."—Fergus Bordewich, author of The First Congress: How James...

iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

Steve Wozniak

From AudioFile "Woz," or Steve Wozniak, the eternally optimistic wizard who, along with Steve Jobs, gave birth to Apple...

iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It

Gina Smith

Budding computer-science majors, Apple aficionados and electronics buffs will find plenty to ingest here, as Wozniak...

Cold Heart: The Great Unsolved Mystery of Turn of the Century Buffalo

Kimberly Tilley

Buffalonians are going to love digging into the Elmwood Village's first major scandal, a murder that attracted...

The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines

Cate Lineberry

From Booklist In 1943, the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron crash-landed during a storm in Nazi-occupied...

The Onion Field

Joseph Wambaugh

“A complex story of tragic proportions . . . more ambitious than In Cold Blood and equally compelling!” —The New...

The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats

William Geroux

Reviews for The Mathews Men “The valor and contributions of the U.S. Merchant Marines to victory in WWII has seldom...

Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder

Piu Marie Eatwell

Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piu Eatwell provides fresh evidence that we can never get enough of our favorite pin-up...

The Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer's Last Stand

Gordon Clinton Harper

The sheer breadth of Gordon Harper’s research is amazing; I’ve read every major account of George Custer’s last...

The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

Earl Swift

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of...

General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee

Fitzhugh Lee

This book admits readers into the mind of the South's greatest hero and permits them to relive the immense achievements...

The Book of Matt: The Real Story of the Murder of Matthew Shepard (Truth to Power)

Stephen Jimenez

An award-winning journalist uncovers the suppressed story behind the death of Matthew Shepard. . . . As Jimenez...

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

Miles Harvey

“A jaunty, far-ranging history... Despite the frontier setting, there is something eerily contemporary about...

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

Adam Cohen

“This well-written narrative of legal history demonstrates what happens when the powerful and elite in society fail...

Lost City of the Incas (Phoenix Press)

Hiram Bingham

Review A rich, lively book ... it is the classic adventure― IRISH TIMES Bingham catalogues his finds with admirable...

The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

Andrew Lawler

“Andrew Lawler warns...that Lost Colony fever is a kind of madness. Happily, that doesn’t stop him from plunging...

Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objective Look at World War ll

Len Deighton

From the Publisher "In this well-researched and balanced history of World War II, Deighton analyzes the weapons,...

Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West

Dan Schultz

From Booklist “The West lives,” Schultz asserts, before launching into this true-crime tale of a sudden shoot-out,...

Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas

Pete Earley

Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley, whose several books include a study of Leavenworth Prison, turns his...

American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume I: To 1877, with Sources

Sarah J. Purcell

This is a very complete and comprehensive work, explaining in detail the factors and conditions that impact and have...

Notes on a Killing: Love, Lies, and Murder in a Small New Hampshire Town

Rebecca Lavoie

It's intriguing. It's heartbreaking. It's a crime story laced withsentiments of love, triumph, and loyalty among...

Mobsters, Madams & Murder in Steubenville, Ohio: The Story of Little Chicago

Susan M Guy

About the Author Susan M. Guy is a correction officer for the state of Ohio and a former police sergeant with the Cross...