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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this gripping Civil War history, Fox Business's Gerri Willis charts the making of a spymaster genius.Wealthy Southern belle Elizabeth Van Lew had it all. Money, charm, wit—the most elegant mansion in Richmond. So why risk...
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women...
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, AND BOOKPAGE"Revelatory." --New York Times Book Review"Essential reading. A companion for turbulent times." --Laura van den Berg"Nothing short of a masterpiece.” --The San Francisco ChronicleInternationally...
Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a...
A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley—better known at that point by her outlaw...
A science reporter's account of a family, a genetic illness, and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw."A moving, suspenseful page-turner . . . Recalls two other classic tales of medical anthropology, Rebbeca...
A link to my website that contains a few pictures and blogs from my military life: https://www.harrydobson.co.uk/gallery LEGIO PATRIA NOSTRA - The Legion is our fatherland. THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION is a legendary branch of the French army known for its severe...
The New York Times–bestselling memoir by Steve Jobs' daughter: "This sincere and disquieting portrait reveals a complex father-daughter relationship." —Publishers Weekly, starred reviewBorn on a farm and named in a field by her parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and...
Get to know the woman behind the legendary advice column in this "heartfelt, funny, and remarkably revealing" collection of letters she wrote to her daughter (U.S. News & World Report)."The letters are a time machine to breakfast tables past, where that good-girl...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and author of Charlotte's Web documents his move from Manhattan to a saltwater farm in New England: "Superb reading." —The New YorkerCalled "a mid-20th–century Thoreau" by Notre Dame Magazine, E. B. White's desire to live a simple...