Historical

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration for the hit PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life o...

sometimes It's Worth The Wait. Having Waited 40 Years To Tell His Story, Frank Mccourt Doesn't Pull Any Punches In His Story Of Growing Up Dirt Poor In Lim...

David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. ...

Mike Pompeo Recounts His Political Career-- Mike Pompeo Is The Only Person Ever To Have Served As Both America's Most Senior Diplomat And The Head Of Its Pr...

Product Description The world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,00...

The Widow Of American Sniper Chris Kyle Shares Their Private Story: An Unforgettable Testament To The Power Of Love And Faith In The Face Of War And Unimagi...

Overview: Once Upon A Time An Indian Writer Named Amitav Ghosh Set Out To Find An Indian Slave, Name Unknown, Who Some Seven Hundred Years Before Had Travel...

Jeff Ashton was part of the prosecution team in the Florida homicide trial of Casey Anthony, the single mother accused of murdering her little girl, Caylee....

Immaculee Ilibagiza Grew Up In A Country She Loved, Surrounded By A Family She Cherished. But In 1994 Her Idyllic World Was Ripped Apart As Rwanda Descended...

This brilliant psychological examination of the infamous Cambridge art-historian-turned-spy reveals the multiple masks worn by the Cold War’s most notorio...

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, archi...

This critically acclaimed memoir, now in paperback, tells the story of the woman who piloted The Washington Post through the stormy times related to the Pe...

David Kipen Scoured The Archives Of Libraries, Historical Societies, And Private Estates To Assemble A Kaleidoscopic View Of Los Angeles From The Spanish Mi...

From the bestselling author and acclaimed historian, a powerful portrayal of the life of Jesus Is Jesus relevant to us today? Few figures have had such...

The Former Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Documents His Rise From A Southern Youth To Ivy League Professorships Prior To The 2007 Housing Bubble Burst, Det...

Prologue: Obsession -- Part One: Some Gallant Heart. A Blaze Of Light ; Shadows ; Bond For Our Blood ; The Abban ; The Enemy Is Upon Us -- Part Two: What Mi...

As ten-year-old Pinchas is deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the killing site of Majdanek and then to a series of concentration camps, he shuts himself off...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North Am...

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in...

In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crim...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer—and one o...

The truth is that John Rae solved the two great mysteries ofnineteenth-century Arctic exploration: during a single expedition in 1854, hediscovered both th...

The Transition From President Donald J. Trump To President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Stands As One Of The Most Dangerous Periods In American History. But As # 1 I...

In A Biography That Looks Past The Storybook Hero Who Cast Aside Family And Fortune To Advance The Transcendent Aims Of Liberty And Justice, Laura Auricchio...

From the frontlines of the COVID crisis to the real events behind the meteoric rise and unfathomable fall of Governor Andrew Cuomo, one of the most powerful...

Upon Assuming The Presidency In 1953, Dwight Eisenhower Came To Be Seen By Many As A Doddering Lightweight. Yet Behind The Bland Smile And Apparent Simplemi...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hi...

When News Of The Budding Romance Between A Beloved English Prince And An American Actress Broke, It Captured The World's Attention And Sparked An Internatio...

In This Illuminating And Deeply Moving Memoir, A Former American Military Intelligence Officer Goes Beyond Traditional Cold War Espionage Tales To Tell The ...

A Sharp, Funny, And Honest Collection Of Real-life Stories From Kelly Ripa, Showing The Many Dimensions And Crackling Wit Of The Beloved Daytime Talk Show H...

In This Landmark Autobiography, Five Years In The Making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy Tells His Extraordinary Personal Story--of His Legendary Family, Politic...

Pigeonholed In Popular Memory As A Jazz Age Epicurean, A Playboy, And An Emblem Of The Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald Was At Heart A Moralist Struck B...

Lawrence Fox Was Born And Raised In Midland, Ontario And Enlisted In The Rcaf In 1952. Distinguished By His Outstanding Marksmanship From The Beginning Of H...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

A Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Izzeldin Abuelaish is an infertility specialist who lives in Gaz...

The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to th...

A youthful troublemaker, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller life than most. But on May 27, 1943, it...

The Inspiring Story Of Two Pioneering Suffragette Doctors Who Ran The Only Military Hospital Staffed Entirely By Women During World War I -- And Who Transfo...

"More imaginatively than any other Stevens biographer, Fawn Brodie has speculated upon the emotional springs of the man's behavior. More resourcefully than...

celia Was An Ordinary Slave—until She Struck Back At Her Abusive Master And Became The Defendant In A Landmark Trial That Threatened To Undermine The Very...

Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate A...

The Second Volume In The Life Of Literary Giant Saul Bellow, Vividly Capturing A Personal Life That Was Always Tumultuous And Career That Never Ceased Being...

Some Americans Cling Desperately To The Myth That We Are Living In A Post-racial Society, That The Election Of The First Black President Spelled The Doom Of...

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma City-style, and to le...

The Legendary Fbi Criminal Profiler, Number-one New York Times Bestselling Author, And Inspiration For The Hit Netflix Show Mindhunter Delves Deep Into The ...

The riveting story of a Canadian who serves as a senior officer in Israel's legendary Mossad. In 1982 a young Michael Ross joins the legion of Canadian twen...