Farrar Straus & Giroux
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Master of the Mountain by Henry Wiencek shows us American history as it was, not as we might want it…
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
This extraordinary and important book is based on 20 years of research on the horrific failure of the Great Leap…
Little Century
Orphaned at age eighteen, Chicagoan Esther Chambers has no place to go. There’s nothing tying her to her childhood home…
Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
The Orteig prize of $25,000 (approximately $330,000 today) was established in 1919 to award the first pilot to cross the…
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
In his brilliant, insightful study of the disappearance of two of the noble families of Russia—the Sheremetevs and Golitsyns—Douglas Smith…
The Dream of the Celt
The opening chapter presents Roger Casement under a sentence of death for treason because of his efforts to recruit Irish…
Coral Glynn
In 1950, Coral Glynn is a young nurse who comes to aid a woman dying of cancer at remote Hart…
HHhH
HHhH (“Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich,” that is, “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”) tells the thrilling story of Slovak Jozef Gabćik…
The Elizabethans
Readers seeking political intrigue, court skullduggery, ceremonial pomp, amorous relationships, or even literary, economic, and philosophical history of the 16th…
The Right-hand Shore
The novel begins in 1920 as Mary Bayly, the owner of Mason’s Retreat, a large farm on Maryland’s eastern shore…
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