Every day ordinary young Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq, with the same bravery, honor, and sense of duty that have distinguished American troops throughout history. One of these is Jason Dun…
In remembrance of the 25th anniversary, this definitive account of Columbine examines the aftermath and significance of the "a staggering work of journalism" ( Washington Post ).
An enraged man abducts his estranged wife and child, holes up in a secluded mountain cabin, threatening to kill them both. A right wing survivalist amasses a cache of weapons and resists calls to surr…
Shelve Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of…
Shelve No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career that included his involvement…
Shelve The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
The Barnes & Noble Review Master WWII military historian Stephen Ambrose, bestselling author of such classic works as Band of Brothers and D-Day, hits the front lines again with this exciting a…
Shelve The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the…
Shelve Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansio…
Shelve Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
s/t: World War I and Its Violent Climax "November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in Worl…
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, t…
Shelve The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve i…
Shelve The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Eric Blehm, author of the award-winning The Last Season, is back with another true adventure story, The Only Thing Worth Dying For. Set in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, The Only Thing Worth Dying F…
Shelve The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
One of the great heroes of the Iraq War, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia captures the brutal action and raw intensity of leading his Third Platoon, Alpha Company, into a lethally choreographed kill zone…
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Cap…
Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, DC, for hi…
Shelve The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed
As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough assignments--responsible for everything from parachuting into France early DDay morning to the captur…
Shelve Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader …
Shelve Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson’s Sons and for fans of Number the Stars.
Ten-year-old Ada has never left her …
Shelve The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion to Christianity. The book overall contains less detail concerning specific events than typical auto…
Shelve Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
