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Summer of '49 (Perennial Classics)

David Halberstam

David Halberstam's New York Times bestselling classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season, as seen through...

Summer of '49

David Halberstam

From Library Journal This book is ostensibly about the pennant race between the Yankees and Red Sox that year and the...

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

John Robbins

From Publishers Weekly Despite a penchant for melodrama, Joy ( Strategic Action for Animals ) offers an absorbing...

The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup

John Feinstein

One of Golf Digest 's Best Books of the Year"Richly detailed and entertaining. . . .xa0Feinstein captures the...

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

Carol Berkin

From Publishers Weekly Confronting "the gender amnesia that surrounds the American Revolution," historian Berkin ( A...

A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

Shannon Gibney

Review “Sun Yung Shin has brought together a collection of passionate literary warriors whose fierceness is equaled...

Not Without Peril: 150 Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire

Nicholas S. Howe

¿Howe tells the stories straightforwardly, deftly blending in the historical and geographical information needed to...

The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America (P.S.)

Walter R. Borneman

About the Author Walter R. Borneman is the author of Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land , 1812: The War That Forged a Nation ,...

Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

James Kirchick

“ Secret City by James Kirchick, is a sprawling and enthralling history of how the gay subculture in Washington,...

A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

Eric Jay Dolin

A] lively chronicle of five tempestuous centuries . . . Where A Furious Sky is most compelling is in its often...

A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred

George F. Will

From Booklist Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, turns 100 this season. Will, a lifelong Cubs fan originally from...

The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine

Gregg Olsen

From Publishers Weekly The 1972 fire at Idaho's Sunshine silver mine was one of America's worst mine disasters, with 91...

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Elizabeth Rush

Praise for Elizabeth Rush’s Rising “A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas,...

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

Danielle S. Allen

The book is a tour de force of close textual analysis." ― Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books "Our Declaration...

American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing

Lou Michel

The book is history. Michel and Herbeck have done us all a service." (New York Newsday)"Probably the best recounting of...

Pearl: You are Cleared to Land

Deanna Edens

About the Author Deanna Edens currently lives by a beautiful lake in Michigan, and is a native West Virginian. She is...

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

Jim Powell

From the Inside Flap "Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring the American economy after the disastrous...

When Evil Came to Good Hart, 10th Anniversary Edition

Mardi Link

“What makes this book more than the sum of its parts is Link's exploration of the nature of evil and her comments on...

The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War

Fred Anderson

Fred Anderson is Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder. His other...

Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands: The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action During the 1982 Conflict

Rod Boswell

About the Author Captain Rod Boswell, MBE, the commander of the Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre of the Royal Marines...

Daniel Boone's Own Story & The Adventures of Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

A legend in his own lifetime, Daniel Boone (1734–1820) was among the country's first folk heroes. The hunter and...

The Myth of the Holy Cow

D. N. Jha

“A well-argued and soundly documented study...” ( Choice )“Not since Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses ... has a...

All My Patients Kick and Bite: More Favorite Stories from a Vet's Practice

D.V.M. Jeff Wells

Veterinarian Wells returns with another collection of warm, humorous tales of the animals he treats and the people who...

Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

Jeff Coen

A] revealing, shocking book . . . superbly crafted." —Publishers Weekly "A telling look inside the twisted world of...