State & Local

A pictorial celebration of New Mexico's history and landscape. In celebration of New Mexico's statehood centenial, Richard Melzer focuses on the various s...

In Gone to Texas, historian Randolph Campbell ranges from the first arrival of humans in the Panhandle some 10,000 years ago to the dawn of the twenty-first...

Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandell...

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth. Nathaniel Philbrick now re...

With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual an...

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Liter...

Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS""Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulou...

Martin Scorsese's The Departed barely touched on his story. Now radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr takes us ...

The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest—and the best professional bas...

Historian Edward Baptist Reveals How The Expansion Of Slavery In The First Eight Decades After American Independence Drove The Evolution And Modernization O...

A dazzling account of peace and conflict in 15th Century England which emphasises the military over the political history of the Wars of the Roses. Frequen...

For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fai...

It's Difficult Today To Imagine How America Survived The Great Depression--only Through The Stories Of The Common People Who Struggled During That Era Can W...

The best way to see—really see—any city is on foot. The perennial favorite Washington on Foot has been completely revised and updated to offer 24 walkin...

A family-focused guidebook to Washington, D.C., for traveling with children ages 4 to 12. DK Eyewitness Travel: Family Guide Washington, DC gives parents w...

An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuffBack in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winnin...

The King Of The Pill Mills Was American Pain, A Mega-clinic That Served As A Prototype For The Rest. From A Pristine Former Bank Building, Doctors Distribut...

#1 New York Times Bestseller • Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now • One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfict...

AN ABUSIVE MOTHERRaised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed ...

This Blockbuster Narrative Provides The First Behind-the-scenes, Authoritative Account Of The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex’s Marriage, By The New York Times...

For the audience that read Maria Flook’s New York Times bestseller, Invisible Eden, this is the extraordinary story of a high-stakes murder case set in t...

Complete With Secret Tips From Disney's Imagineers--from Where To Find All The Hidden Mickeys To The Truth Behind Madame Leota's Ring At The Haunted Mansion...

A compact illustrated guide to the emerging and enormously popular category of natural wine, a style that focuses on minimal intervention, lack of additive...

Elissa Wall Details Her Life Growing Up In The Polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Religious Sect, Being Forced Into An Unwanted Marriage At The Age...

Million Dollar Quartet is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were...

In this beautifully crafted collection of essays, Cole Harris reflects on the strategies of colonialism in British Columbia during the first 150 years after...

In this harrowing and spellbinding book, Elissa Wall tells the complete story of her life in the FLDS polygamist sect and how she brought down controversi...

The Perfect Gift for All Ages!On average, humans will spend 92 days sitting on the toilet over their lifetime. To put this in perspective, that’s about on...

Imagine getting a glimpse of heaven, a preview of life in God's presence. Could life here ever be the same? Capt. Dale Black has flown as a commercial pil...

Journalist Julie Satow's Thrilling, Unforgettable History Of How One Illustrious Hotel Has Defined Our Understanding Of Money And Glamour, From The Gilded A...

“The Great Starvation Experimentis wide-ranging, weaving progress in the war into the day-to-day suffering of the hungry volunteers.” —Saint Paul Pioneer ...

[the Author's] Story Begins In Rural Puerto Rico, Where Her Warring Parents And Seven Siblings Led A Life Of Uproar, But One Full Of Love And Tenderness As ...

The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole ...

Studio 54 was the icon of excess—a place where Andy, Mick, Bianca, and Elton lounged in the VIP section while patrons did drugs in the fabled unisex bath...

Shots Rang Out In Savannah's Grandest Mansion In The Misty, Early Morning Hours Of May 2, 1981. Was It Murder Or Self-defense? For Nearly A Decade, The Shoo...

God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battle...

During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts...

Andrew Cuomo is the protagonist of an ongoing political saga that reads like a novel. In many ways, his rise, fall, and rise again is an iconic story: a you...

With This Spectacularly Illustrated Gift Edition, A New Generation Of Readers Can Walk Beside One Of America's Most Respected Naturalists As He Conveys The ...

With the coming of railroads, upstart Chicago quickly became the Midwest's center for commerce and trade, overtaking its older rival, St. Louis. The first t...

Want To Be The Big Cheese In The Big Apple Where New York Rangers Trivia Is Concerned?never Lose Another Trivia Game Again With This Fact-filled, Fun Ranger...

One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of t...

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whippi...

Dust jacket notes: "Those of us who live beside the great lakes accept their magnitude with scarcely a passing thought," Pierre Berton writes. "We have long...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence offic...

During Sarah Smarsh's Turbulent Childhood In Kansas In The 1980s And 1990s, The Country's Changing Economic Policies Solidified Her Family's Place Among The...

Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is ...

A Pickpocket's Tale Is A Fascinating True-crime Story. Gilfoyle Uses George Appo's Unpublished Memoirs To Re-create The World Of The Nineteenth-century Crim...