Books from Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
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A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic
By Henry MayerFinally, the sheriff, William Bibb, appeared on the steps to call for order and conduct the election. After reading the legal papers calling for the election, Bibb simply looked out across the crowd and declared, in the customary phrase ...
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Honorable Treachery: A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA
By G.J.A. O'TooleJohn Henry, the British agent who had tried unsuccessfully to collect $160,000 for his services from Sir James Craig, had fared no better when he presented his bill to the Foreign Office in London. Henry lingered in London until the ...
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The Amphora Project
By William KotzwinkleThe Amphora Project “twists along at breakneck pace”, combining elements of science fiction and fantasy while transcending the boundaries of both (Publishers Weekly). “Full of weird tech and plenty of heroics and adventure in the ...
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The Spy's Son: The True Story of the Highest-Ranking CIA Officer Ever Convicted of Espionage and the Son He Trained...
By Bryan DensonBut there was a slight hitch in his stride, as if his left leg were stepping over imaginary glass, a parting gift from the parachuting injury that ended his military career. He had turned twenty-four that summer.
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Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood
By Todd McCarthyAs The Atlantic Monthly noted, “Todd McCarthy. . . . has gone further than anyone else in sorting out the truths and lies of the life, the skills and the insight and the self-deceptions of the work.” “A fluent biography of the great ...
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Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of...
By Margaret VisserMCPHEE, J. Oranges. N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967. RAY, R. and walheim, L. Citrus. Tucson: Horticultural Publishing/ Fisher, 198o. RILEY, J.J. A. History of the American Soft Drink Industry. N.Y.: Arno, I972. Tolkowsky, s.
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Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady
By Laura Tyson LiOctavia “Tava” Domingos, a student and Wesleyan president Strickland's daughter, presented flowers to Mayling, who kissed them as she accepted the bouquet. Domingos later said, “No, you can't clean this dress! That's where Madame Chiang ...
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1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War
By Marc WortmanIn July of 1941 Bush and his associate, Harvard president James Conant, received a copy of a draft report from the NDRC's liaison office in London. A British scientific group named the MAUD ...
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
By David ZucchinoAs Coffey made his way back to his Bradley parked at the northern edge of the overpass, it seemed to him that not all the soldiers at the interchange were returning fire effectively as they took cover. The soldiers were not under his ...
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The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
By Bob Drury, Tom ClavinFarther up the east slope , however , Sergeant Charles Pearson and Corporal Kenneth Mertz of the First Platoon knew something nasty was up when several stray bullets punctured their makeshift pup tent . But where the shots had come from ...
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Bluffing Mr. Churchill
By John LawtonHis father smiled at this. Rod didn't. Wells looked plainly puzzled. 'I meant,' he continued, 'the one about “I have seen the future and it works”.' 'Don't say Shaw,' Rod chipped in. 'We've done Shaw.' 'I thought it was you,' said Troy.
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A Little White Death
By John LawtonTroy was standing on one of the many half-landings on the south staircase, in front of one of Norman Shaw's vast windows, watching the river flow. He saw Coyn reflected in the glass – the dark mass of his uniform, dotted with the ...
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Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
By Carrie GibsonAlexander von Humboldt, The Island of Cuba: A Political Essay (Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 166, 198. 95. Alexander von Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years ...
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Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line
By Tom DunkelThis is an entertaining, must-read for anyone interested in the history of baseball. “A tale as fantastic as it is true.” —The Boston Globe “It is funny, it is sad, it is spellbinding, required reading for anyone who loves baseball, ...
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Troll: A Love Story
By Johanna SinisaloFor a moment I think the sound I hear is the bell on the bar counter back at Ermita. The bell that orders me out of the back room. But luckily my hand touches something, my eyes open, and I'm surrounded by the gray-blue of the room's ...
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The Burglar: A Novel
By Thomas PerryLinda Corbett had been their age and had been one of a large group of neighborhood kids who knew one another and played together. The Corbetts had been the only faction as big as the Stowells. They were Mormons transplanted from Utah, ...
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Just Cause
By John KatzenbachFolks coming to visit because of all the attention we got because of the late Miz Hurston. Ain't gonna compete with Disney World or Key West, I guess, but it's kinda nice to see new faces around town.” Brown tried to picture Eatonville.
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Born on a Tuesday: A Novel
By Elnathan John“A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism.” —O, The Oprah Magazine, “10 Titles to Pick Up Now” Winner of the 2017 Betty ...
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I Love You More Than You Know: Essays
By Jonathan AmesI would like to thank and acknowledge Tom Beller, Dara Hyde, Rosalie Siegel, John Strausbaugh, and all the editors who have kindly published my work. 1 This was written in the quasi-innocent year of 1998.
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The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam
By James William GibsonGibson tells us why we were in Vietnam . . . a work of daring brilliance—an eye-opening chronicle of waste and self-delusion.” —Robert Olen Butler In this groundbreaking book, James William Gibson shatters the misled assumptions ...