Book Review: Watergate
/Thomas Mallon's latest novel dramatizes the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration
Read MoreThomas Mallon's latest novel dramatizes the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon administration
Read Morea lean and pugnacious new history of the second-greatest fighting ship in United States history!
Read MoreIn conjunction with a recent PBS special, a classic book is re-issued: the story of a man who became the mother, father, and leader to an engaging group of wild turkeys
Read MoreA new anthology of tales set in the exotic Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter" novels!
Read MoreThe frontiers of ancient Rome - the limits by which it defined both itself and its enemies - stretched from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Irish Sea. In this muscular new study, those frontiers take center stage.
Read MoreThe Earth's Mightiest Heroes love, squabble, and fight killer robots in this latest reprint volume
Read MoreA veteran historical novelist takes on that gigantic freedom fighter, William Wallace
Read MoreEverybody knows the name Fu-Manchu, but so few people have read the books that made that name famous! A great new series of reprints aims to correct that.
Read MoreIn Hitler's great gamble of attacking the Soviet Union in 1941, the legendary victories at Kiev weren't so glorious as standard histories would have us believe - so says a new book on the subject
Read MoreA massive collection of essays examining all aspects of animal rights.
Read MoreA pretty new reprint of the great German writers' memoir of boyhood under the Nazis in Cologne.
Read MoreA series of fortunate events unearths a long-lost manuscript by the late great Donald Westlake! Too good to be true, or too true to be good?
Read MoreAn intensely readable history of the wars that made - and then broke - the city of Venice as ruler of the seas.
Read MoreThor, Iron Man, and Captain America - read a great adventure of the Avengers core trio before you feast your eyes on the summer's movie!
Read MoreAn eloquent and extremely thought-provoking new formulation of animals deserve from the humans who determine their fates.
Read MoreA new book praises introverts as the wonderful, sensitive, thoughtful conscience of the brawling, talking human race.
Read MoreWhen Alexander the Great died at age 32, his huge empire was split apart by his warring successors. James Romm's new book on the subject captures all the brutal drama.
Read MoreA wonderful (and long out of print) adaptation of "SIr Gawain and the Green Knight" by the great 20th century novelist and teacher John Gardner
Read MoreCaptain Kirk finds himself stranded in the middle of space in the 21st century in this new Star Trek novel.
Read MoreHe fought a world war with France, survived the Black Death, and gave England a real Parliament. Froissart and Chaucer loved him, Shakespeare (almost) wrote about him, and the Victorians disparaged him. He was Edward III, and he has a king-sized new biography from Yale University Press.
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