Huston Smith

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Provides an introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and the native traditions of the Americas, Australia, Africa, and Oceania

The World's Religions

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Studs Terkel

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The very best interviews of the Pulitzer Prize winner's career

My American Century

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Stephen Moramarco

Federico Moramarco

Brenda Jackson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

101 Reasons to Be Proud You're Italian

This exploration of all things Italian, presented as a combination tour guide, cookbook, historical and biographical record, celebrates the Italian-American contributions to American culture.

Italian Pride

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Tom Brokaw

The renowned television journalist focuses on a remarkable generation of Americans, born in the 1920s, who came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era. TV tie-in. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

The Greatest Generation

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Gale Maleskey

James McCommons

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

From Asthma to Weight Gain, from Colds to Heart Disease--The Most Powerful All-Natural Cures

Discusses vitamins and minerals, herbal supplements, antioxidants, and other natural remedies

Nature's Medicines

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National Geographic

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Some six hundred striking photographs, complemented by essays by distinguished historians, scientists, and explorers, capture the extraordinary events of the twentieth century, including the Wright Brothers, the moon landing, the Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and the end of the Cold War. 25,000 first printing.

National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century

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John Pina Craven

The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea

Offers a glimpse at the Cold War submarine conflict, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the exploits and operations that successfully preserved peace during some of the most unsettled years in the twentieth century.

The Silent War

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Bruce Catton

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

The American Heritage New History of the Civil War

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Peter Jennings

Todd Brewster

More than five hundred photographs complement a history of the twentieth century that chronicles the great events and personalities of the past hundred years

The Century

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Patrick K. O'Brien

Encyclopedia of World History

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Tom Clancy

In the wake of an assassination attempt on the SVR (former KGB) chairman, newly elected U.S. president Jack Ryan puts black ops specialist John Clark on the alert, only to have things complicated by dangerous forces in China. 2,000,000 first printing.

The Bear and the Dragon

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The World War 1 DATABOOK

Joseph J. Ellis

Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

A masterful examination of the early years of the American Republic analyzes the eventful last quarter of the eighteenth century, the accomplishments of the American founders, and the triumphs and failures that shaped the early nation and the American character. 650,000 first printing.

American Creation

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John Irving

John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years--a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.

Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees.

John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time--among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall.

The Last Chairlift

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James Kitfield

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War

In Prodigal Soldiers, James Kitfield chronicles that remarkable revitalization of the military by following the lives of a unique generation of officers.

Prodigal Soldiers

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Erik Bruun

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

The History of the United States in Documents

This book tells a history of the United States using over 1,000 primary sources and documents. Fascinating articles, history-making speeches, moving personal letters, momentous court cases and more paint an in-depth portrait of American life in all arenas: political, social, religious and cultural.

Brief introduction by the authors give background information for each document.

Every issue in U.S. history is covered - from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to Brown vs. the Board of Education and Roe vs. Wade.

Browsers will discover entertaining and informative writings not found in history books, including the first American cookbook, Andrew Carnegie's business advice, poems that inspired the Chicano Movement, Mario Cuomo's 1984 convention speech, the environmental movement manifestoes and the Starr Report.

Organized chronologically and divided by subject ("The Civil War," "The Cold War," etc.), all documents are cross referenced in indexes so history buffs can find their favorite documents by author, document name and first line.

Our Nation's Archive

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Michael Lind

The Necessary War - A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict

One of America's leading intellectuals presents a startling thesis sure to provoke controversy: that the Vietnam War was the right war at the right time--with the wrong military strategy.

Vietnam

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W. E. B. Griffin

William E. Butterworth

A new OSS adventure finds the agents of Wild Bill Donovan fighting the Battle of the Atlantic on two fronts, a situation that is compromised by a possible saboteur. Reprint.

The Saboteurs

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David Michaels

While training new recruits for the Splinter Cells, the Third Echelon discovers a shocking piece of evidence relating to the depletion of their ranks that is linked to a traitor. Original.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction

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Edwin C. Fishel

The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War

Most histories of the Civil War explain victory and defeat in terms of the skill of commanders and their troops. Intelligence records disappeared after the war, and thus a critically important element has largely been ignored. Fishel has unearthed substantial collections of such records, and his "intelligence explanation" radically alters history's understanding of the campaigns. The Secret War for the Union is one of the most important Civil War works ever published.

The Secret War for the Union

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Nancy Lee

A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath

A powerful and eye-filling photographic chronicle of the award-winningNew York Times's coverage of 9/11 and its aftermath worldwide, including the war in Afghanistan

In an unprecedented effort,The New York Times opens its picture archive of September 11th and the aftermath at home and abroad. The result is groundbreaking photojournalism punctuated with authoratative prose. Culled from both published and previously unpublished material,A Nation Challenged highlights the best work of the paper's award-winning staffers-the work that has made the Times the paper of record for these events.

With a foreword, afterword, and original background essays by writers such as Pulitzer Prize winner John Burns, N. R. Kleinfeld, Dan Barry, and Celestine Bohlen, readers will follow the stunning events of September 11th on the national and international stage. Special charts and graphics supply another level of clarity and understanding, while the brilliant photographs provide counterpoint and perspective to carefully chosen text.

With 250 full-color photographs,A Nation Challenged is the definitive volume for all who desire a comprehensive visual chronicle of this pivotal time in America's history.

A Nation Challenged

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Gordon S. Wood

What Made the Founders Different

Even when the greatness of the founding fathers isn't being debunked, it is a quality that feels very far away from us indeed: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Co. seem as distant as marble faces carved high into a mountainside. We may marvel at the fact that fate placed such a talented cohort of political leaders in that one place, the east coast of North America, in colonies between Virginia and Massachusetts, and during that one fateful period, but that doesn't really help us explain it or teach us the proper lessons to draw from it. What did make the founders different? Now, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that shows us, among many other things, just how much character did matter. Revolutionary Charactersoffers a series of brilliantly illuminating studies of the men who came to be known as the founding fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together and gives it the cumulative power of a revelation is this idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Gordon Wood shows, who took the matter of character very, very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who understood the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral progress. They saw themselves as comprising the world's first true meritocracy, a natural aristocracy as opposed to the decadent Old World aristocracy of inherited wealth and station. Gordon Wood's wondrous accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them. In so doing, he shows us that although a lot has changed in two hundred years, to an amazing degree the virtues these founders defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.

Revolutionary Characters

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John Grisham

A Novel

Promising law school graduate Kyle McAvoy's dark secret is discovered by some unscrupulous characters who blackmail him into taking a job with a prestigious law firm, where he participates in an illegal and dangerous scheme.

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