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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's two-year photojournalism assignment in 2009 Havana, where he was confronted by the realities of Fidel Castro's police state before witnessing the fallout of America's trade embargo, Castro's death, suspected sonic attacks and a massive political transition.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize Award–winning author tells the story of the massive changes underway in America through the eyes of an Iraq war veteran engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country. David Finkel, known for his unique, in-depth reporting, spent fourteen years deep inside Brent Cummings’s world to create this intimate and vivid portrait of a man’s life, his work, family, community, his thoughts, and his quest for connection,...
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish author and Sherlock Holmes expert Mattias Bostrom recreates...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller
Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review
""Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country."" —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and
...Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking, revelatory history of Abraham Lincoln's plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War-a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world's most famous peacemakers, including Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a story of war and peace, race and reconciliation"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians of the mid-size city of Chelyabinsk. Drawing on these encounters, Garrels explains why Vladimir Putin commands the loyalty of so many Russians, even those who decry the abuses of power they encounter from day to day.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The story of diplomat George Kennan’s 1885 trip to Siberia and how it exposed the brutal Czarist prison system and how it was used to suppress internal dissent. In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man's harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history's most heinous human rights abuses.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries-and ultimately became deadly.
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