The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld, Hardcover

Reducere. In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle...

The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of The Russian Concubine and The White Pearl. An epic story of love, loss and danger in para...

Reducere. November 1944. The British government finally agrees to send a brigade of 5, 000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Europe to fight the German arm...

The epic Vietnam War story of the multi-year air campaign to destroy Ho Chi Minh's "Invincible" bridge--one of the most dramatic actions in aviatio...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Adam MakosNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 217 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Salamishah TilletNumber of pages: 224Collection: Books About BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 201 x 19Cover...

Reducere. In 1937, Mount Lucania was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. Located deep within the Saint Elias mountain range, which straddles the bor...

Description"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo In this un...

Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker's critically acclaimed and controversial novel, ...

Reducere. This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the ...

Reducere. The inspiring, deeply patriotic true story of John Glenn, a true hero who not only changed America's contribution to space exploration but also spe...

Reducere. DescriptionLust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation is a concise, reader friendly depiction of the "Her...

Reducere. Kat D. Williams traces Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez's life from her childhood in Cuba, where she played baseball with the boys on the streets of El Cerro...

The first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation. 'Shrewd, articulate and incredibly well-informed' - Mi...

Reducere. --- WITH A FOREWORD BY DR. PHIL MCGRAW ---Designer Dogs is the shocking exposure of the dangers of continuing to make our dogs tinier or funnier lo...

Publisher: Poolbeg Press LtdAuthor(s): A. O'ConnorPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 199 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farme...

DescriptionFrom the highly creative teams of Sideshow Collectibles and Insight Comics comes the next graphic novel installment of the Court of the ...

Reducere. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of...

Reducere. Penned by the hand of his father, this is an epic story of a thirteen-year-old boy who refused a death sentence of brain cancer. Isaac Walsh was di...

DescriptionSince early times, humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war, to find protecti...

In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung dise...

Reducere. In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling around the world. He finally...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States, by the award-winning author of ...

Reducere. In The Fords: An American Epic, Peter Collier and David Horowitz tell the riveting story of three generations of Fords, a dramatic story of conflic...

Reducere. DescriptionWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compuls...

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Ab...

A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Revi...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail" (The Wall Street Journal), the "intimate and sweeping" (Raleigh News &...

Reducere. Around the time of WWI, large numbers of African Americans began leaving their homes in the rural South in search of employment in the industrial c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edith Eudora Ammons KohlIntroduction by: Clifford T. AmmonsIn "Woman of the Cavalcade, " Edith Kohl describes her dramatic,...

Zeus the hamster and his team of Olympians journey deep into the Underworld in the fourth title of this fun-filled, Greek-mythology-based series.Pu...

Reducere. National Book Critics Circle AwardWhether framed philosophically as "Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?" or more colloquially as "But...

A sweet Cincinnati boy of the 1950s finds his American Possibility of freedom through an extensive variety of inventive exploits. Mike Maschmeier's...

Reducere. Many Americans remember growing up watching Westerns on television which always depicted a clash of two diverse cultures. There is still a curiosit...

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the "American Century." Panama Fever draw...

Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or...

DescriptionAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century--a "riveting...engrossing...'American Epic'" (The Wall Street Journal) and neces...

Reducere. The Hiltons is a sweeping saga of the success-and excess-of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary...

Reducere. From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they i...

Reducere. Home to the notorious "Blue Book, " which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light d...

Home to the notorious 'Blue Book', which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light di...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

Reducere. In The Exquisite Triumph of Wormboy, multi-award winning illustrator and graphic novelist James Kochalka brings us a thematic collection of drawing...

A deliciously classy tale of an American heiress, an English blue blood and the hunt for happiness from the acclaimed scriptwriter for the epic dra...

Reducere. Sometimes history does not tell you the whole story.When 8-year-old Lou Del Bianco finds out that his Grandpa Luigi was the Chief Carver on Mount R...