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In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year and apos;s World Series, one of the nation and apos;s strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain were among a cadre of…
“. . . brutally honest . . . a compelling work. GET IT”-Kirkus Reviews“Moving story of an adopted daughter’s search for her own voice.”-Booklife“Well-written and poignant . . . engaging. Feelings and experiences to which many adoptees can relate to.”-Betsie Norris, Founder and Executive Director, Adoption Network ClevelandIt was 1947…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A fast-paced debut…Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.” — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a…
Hillbilly Elegy recounts J.D. Vance’s powerful origin story… From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the…
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History For many years, a single volume covering the “History of the West” did not exist. Paxson’s masterwork rectifies this problem – offering an essential, sweeping account of the American West and westward expansion from 1763-1893. The American pioneer is followed to every frontier for nearly 150 years across…
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time “chills the blood and exercises the intelligence” (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts…
The astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia.“An amazing, riveting tale of unsung heroes who went above and beyond.”—James Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of Flags of Our FathersDuring a bombing campaign over…
