THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS chronicles the dramatic story behind the realization of the centuries-old dream of creating a ship passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the style that has made him a favorite of readers and reviewers alike, McCullough weaves astonishing engineering feats, ext ...
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When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates the final year of the Civil War.
"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl Id once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron began writing the first chapter of Sophies Choice. ...
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Twelve-year-old Vahan Kenderian, the son of an influential Armenian family in Turkey, struggles to survive alone after witnessing the deaths of many of his family and friends during the Armenian massacres of the early twentieth century.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "EVERYONE SHOULD READ AND LEARN FROM THIS LUMINOUS BOOK...Like Alex Haleys Roots, through which African American history came into national focus...Slaves in the Family has the potential for creating a perceptual shift in the American mind...The book is not only honest in its sc ...
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Narrated by the ghost of soldier killed in Vietnam, the novel tells the story of Paco Sullivan, the lone survivor of a firebombing raid, a man who is something of a ghost himself. In a small Texas town Paco takes a job as a dishwasher and tries to make a simple life for himself even though he's haun ...
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The National Book Award-winning first novel in the epic World War II trilogy weaves together courage, violence, and passions of the men and women stationed in Diamond Head, Hawaii, in 1941, just before America's entrance into the War. Reprint.
In twelth-century England, after his master, a maker of coins for the king, is brutally punished for alleged cheating, seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself traveling to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard Lionheart.In twelfth-century England, afte ...
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