One hundred years after the tragedy of the Titanic, a revised and updated edition of the New York Times bestselling account
Intrigued by the romance of his own parents, who met in Washington Square Park, Ariel Sabar set off on a far-reaching... Læs mere
On December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men dumped roughly £10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. This symbolic act unleashed a... Læs mere
"[An] excellent volume on the Navy's air war in the Pacific during WWII...[Sears] has almost certainly created the best one volume study of the subject."--Booklist
"This remarkable book is the inspirational story of what can happen when two determined people create an unbreakable bond and set out to achieve the almost impossible."--Tucson Citizen
A compelling new biography of Patrick Henry, a monumental figure in American history, hailed in his time as the first of the nation's Founding Fathers
The epic and heroic story of how Raoul Wallenberg out-dueled Adolph Eichmann and saved more than 100,000 Jews in Budapest from the Nazi death camps
By the international bestselling author of The Science of Happiness and The Secret Pulse of Time, a fresh exploration of Da Vinci's real "code"--science!
A journey through modern Iran and Afghanistan that sheds light on present conflicts by tapping the most surprising of sources--a thousand-year-old epic poem
The acclaimed, first comprehensive biography of the most successful female vocal group of all time
The Ride tells the shocking true story of the 1997 abduction and gruesome murder of ten-year-old Massachusetts resident Jeffrey Curley, and how his father, Bob, healed the deep wounds of rage and emerged to become an outspoken critic of the death penalty.
A landmark new history of the making of the Erie Canal--America's first "superhighway" to the West--and the extraordinary consequences of its completion