St. Martin's Griffin
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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway
$28.00 Add to cartIn the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding, horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 crippled the entire
- Author: Most, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250061350
- Language: English
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The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the Oss, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
$21.00 Add to cartJohn Lisle reveals the untold story of the OSS Research and Development Branch–The Dirty Tricks Department–and its role in World War II.
In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial- Author: Lisle, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250838487
- Language: English
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I’m Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC
$22.00 Add to cartThe true story behind the character depicted in HBO’s critically acclaimed, award-winning miniseries, The Pacific
I’m Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest her- Author: Proser, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312611447
- Language: English
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Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander’s Account of the Hunt for the World’s Most Wanted Man
$21.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller Kill Bin Laden is an explosive first-hand account of a Delta Force commando’s hunt for the world’s most wanted man.
The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the w- Author: Fury, Dalton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0312567405
- Language: English
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Will Shortz Presents the Dangerous Book of Sudoku: 100 Devilishly Difficult Puzzles
$16.99 Add to cartAre you up for the challenge? Put your sudoku-solving skills to the test with this collection of ferocious sudoku puzzles!
Features:
– 100 challenging puzzles
– Edited by legendary New York Times cross- Series: Will Shortz Presents…
- Author: Shortz, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0312541600
- Language: English
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The Troubles: Ireland’s Ordeal and the Search for Peace: Ireland’s Ordeal and the Search for Peace
$45.99 Add to cartTim Pat Coogan covers the tortured history of Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long years of violence, up to the present attempts to find peace. His ac… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312294182
- Language: English
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Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
$22.99 Add to cartIn the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers,
- Author: Lasalle, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 19 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284314
- Language: English
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Dining by Rail: The History and Recipes of America’s Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine
$25.99 Add to cartDining by Rail is James D. Porterfield’s book of history and recipes from America’s golden age of railroad cuisine. Porterfield is a devotee of railroad history and a gourmet cook, and while preparing
- Author: Porterfield, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312187114
- Language: English
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New York Times Totally ’90s Crosswords
$18.99 Add to cartA phat collection of easy to hard New York Times crossword puzzles from the 1990s.
Remember the 90s? Flannel shirts, “The Rachel” haircut, ska punk, Ken Starr, and New York Times crossword clues like- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160995
- Language: English
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New York Times Soothing Sunday Crosswords
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times large Sunday crosswords are designed for a long, lazy day. So get comfortable, get set, and get solving with this fun compilation of 75 of the most soothing and satisfying Sunday pu
- Series: New York Times Crossword Collections
- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1250039177
- Language: English
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Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
$24.00 Add to cart“When I began writing this account I was living under a shower curtain in a stand of bamboo in a public park. I did not undertake to write about homelessness, but wrote what I knew, as an artist paint
- Author: Eighner, Lars
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250036259
- Language: English
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Born Bright
$22.99 Add to cartStanding on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness often go undetected. I had worked ha… [more below]
- Author: Mason, C. Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1250891124
- Language: English
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Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties: An Entertaining Life (with Recipes)
$20.99 Add to cartSouthern humorist Julia Reed celebrates Southern food, Southern women, and the Southern penchant for enjoying good times in this collection of her food writing.
Julia Reed spends a lot of time thinkin- Author: Reed, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0312359578
- Language: English
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The New York Times Beach Blanket Crosswords: Light and Easy Puzzles
$16.99 Add to cartSun, Surf and Crosswords
Even just the vision of a day at the beach is delightful, but whether or not you can make it away to relax on the sand, the fun, easy crosswords in this book will give you ho- Series: New York Times Crossword Puzzle
- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312342500
- Language: English
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Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling biographer Anne Edwards comes the irresistible true story of the lives and loves of the great opera diva, Maria Callas.
Maria Callas continues to mesmerize us decade- Author: Edwards, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0312310021
- Language: English
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Teewinot: Climbing and Contemplating the Teton Range
$22.99 Add to cartJack Turner grew up with an image of the Tetons engraved in his mind. As a young man, he climbed the peaks of this singular range with basic climbing gear and friends. Later in life, he led treks in I
- Author: Turner, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0312284462
- Language: English
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Origami to Astonish and Amuse: Over 400 Original Models, Including Such Classics as the Chocolate-Covered Ant, the Transvestite Puppet, the Invisible
$24.99 Add to cartAn original origami book featuring delightfully detailed designs from the incredibly simple exploding envelope, to the highly complex and hilarious Man Swatter
Imagine folding a piece of paper into na- Author: Shafer, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0312254040
- Language: English
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The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy’s Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
$19.00 Add to cartThe thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow–before more American assets are rounded up and killed.
Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former D- Author: Haseltine, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 125078137X
- Language: English
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Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
$27.99 Add to cartSome people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that coo… [more below]
- Author: Theophano, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1403962936
- Language: English
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The New York Times Home for the Holidays Crosswords: 200 Easy to Hard Puzzles
$19.99 Add to cartThe only thing better than being home for the holidays is relaxing with this merry compilation of New York Times crossword puzzles, which packs hours of solving into a large-size paperback with a fun,
- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1250147980
- Language: English
