Book Review: True Faith and Allegiance
/A Canadian businessman is more than he seems in the latest big addition to the Tom Clancy fictional universe
Read MoreA Canadian businessman is more than he seems in the latest big addition to the Tom Clancy fictional universe
Read MoreA handy new books ranges over the whole breadth of human aches and pains and losses and gains - and provides the science behind it all.
Read MoreThe world's most endangered population of grizzly bears is the subject of a powerful, haunting new book
Read MoreA master historian analyzes the tumultuous century that gave rise to the modern era
Read MorePoor Simon Lewis has been a human, and he's been a vampire - and now he's a student at the forbidding Shadowhunter Academy, in the latest chapter of Cassandra Clare's ongoing YA fantasy series
Read MoreThe gripping true story of celebrated KGB assassin - and defector.
Read MoreThe mesmerizing lunatic who grafted himself onto the Romanov dynasty in its final decades gets a highly detailed new biography.
Read MoreAn invigorating new history looks at the American Revolution from a wide-angle international view
Read MoreA smart and gripping new novel brings the Salem Witch mania to life.
Read MoreThe tough and bitter East Africa campaign of 1941 receives a comprehensive new history.
Read MoreA thought-provoking new history shines a spotlight on the long and brutal aftermath of the First World War
Read MoreThat familiar glory of medieval English architecture -the church spire - is the subject of a stunning new book.
Read MoreA new book chronicles the world's enduring fascination with Ancient Egypt
Read MoreCan birds - any species of bird, anywhere in the United States - survive their contact with humanity? A new book looks at the science and the sobering numbers.
Read MoreDepression-era US President Herbert Hoover has always been easy to malign - a new biography argues that he's just as easy to underestimate
Read MoreThe larger-than-life medieval Frankish king Charlemagne is the subject of a definitive single-volume biography now translated into English
Read MoreA sumptuous new biography of the man behind the Turner legend
Read MoreThe Sioux medicine man and centerpiece of "Black Elk Speaks" is the subject of a comprehensive new biography
Read MoreA big new biography attempts to get at the flesh-and-blood man behind the problematic theory of Marxism
Read MoreA big, generous new biography of the man who created Dracula
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