After 30 years and with three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, <I>The Killer Angels</I>, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published.<p>July 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. General Robe ...
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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.
In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences. Reader's Guide included. Re ...
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In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the r ...
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,<i> </i>reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, G ...
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<blockquote><i>"This is a book about that most admirable of human virtues-- courage. 'Grace under pressure,' Ernest Hemingway defined it. And these are the stories of the pressures experienced by eight United States Senators and the grace with which they endured them."</i><p>-- John F. Kennedy</p></ ...
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A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic Owen Brown, last surviving son of America's most famous and still controversial political terrorist and martyr, John Brown. Deeply researched, brilliantlyplotted, and peopled with a cast ...
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A collection of stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life. Reprint.
"Combines words and photographs to tell the story of Jacobo Romero, an oldtime northern New Mexico villager. Romero befriends writer William deBuys and photographer Alex Harris and teaches them about the region's land and water, and a way of life long rooted in the mountain valley that became t ...
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