Showing titles in Americas

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The riveting inside story of three heroic astronauts who took on the challenge of mankind’s historic first mission to the Moon, from the bestselling author of Shadow Divers. “Robert Kurson tells the tale of Apollo 8 with novelistic detail and immediacy...

The Great Game in Cuba uses the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIA's inner workings during the '50s and '60s. Detailing the agency's lies and deceits, Mellen paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the CIA in Cuba after the Castro revolution: what it wanted and the lengths it was willing to go to in order to paralyze the opposition to Fidel Castro.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the...

Bloomsbury presents The Art of Diplomacy by Stuart E. Eizenstat, read by Christopher Ragland A riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more. “A magisterial tome on the...

Mukesh Ambani: A Complete Biography by A.K. Gandhi provides an exhaustive account of the life and career of Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire businessman behind Reliance Industries. It delves into his journey from a young entrepreneur to the head of India's most valuable company, offering insights into his leadership, business strategies, and the expansion of Reliance into telecommunications, petrochemicals, and retail.

After six years of deadlock, the American Revolution seemed lost. But in January 1781, the mysterious Francisco de Saavedra appeared in Havana, secretly uniting French and Spanish forces in support of the rebel cause. The result? The stunning victory at the Battle of Yorktown...

The Medium Is Still the Message presents Marshall McLuhan, history's foremost philosopher of media, as the indispensable guide for understanding the impact of technologies. McLuhan (1911-1980) shows that media are not simply tools of communication: they create new environments with...

In A Brief History of Salem, Derek Monaghan delivers a sweeping, cinematic journey through one of America’s most storied places — a town shaped by windlashed shores, colonial ambition, and the haunting legacy of 1692. Across ten immersive chapters, Monaghan traces Salem’s evolution from...

Step into a rich and living world where stories, traditions, and dreams guide the path of a people. Anishinaabe Dreams: Stories of Tradition, Survival, and Identity invites readers on an accessible journey through the culture and history of the Anishinaabe, blending engaging storytelling with...

As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominion―over the land, over Indigenous nations, and over the future. Their narrative constructed a myth of innocence that justified a massive program of violence and dispossession by suppressing a darker history. That history still reverberates today, from settler America's relations with the Indigenous nations of the United States to ways the land has been commodified as property. It's time for the whole truth to be told.

Discover the extraordinary journey of a city that rose from untamed swamplands to become one of the world’s most vibrant cultural and economic hubs. History of Miami is a captivating, fastpaced exploration of the people, events, and forces that shaped the Magic City into the tropical...

“The egalitarianism inherent in the American founding is now poisoning America itself. We are the source of the infection only because we are also Patient Zero. Yet perhaps we can also be the cure. Julius Evola has supplied us with the ideas that can combat the toxins that have devastated our...

Pass It On! by Gloria J. McEwen Burgess and illustrated by Gerald Purnell is an historical visual biography of the intertwined legacies of the author’s father, Earnest McEwen Jr., and Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Faulkner. As a young boy in the segregated South of...

Discover the fascinating history of New France in The Old Régime in Canada by Francis Parkman, a classic work of Canadian history exploring French colonial life in North America during the seventeenth century. This historical account examines the influence of the French monarchy, the Catholic...

The unsung story of heroic World War II combat nurses sent into the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa to save thousands of American soldiers and Marines The Pacific Theater was the setting for some of World War II’s bloodiest battles, and yet much of its history remains untold. As the war in...

The most dangerous political alliance of the twenty-first century is not one of nations, but one of ideologies—Marxism and Islamism. In When Marx Meets Islam, sociologist Craig Considine delivers an urgent and unsparing critique that exposes this toxic new convergence, which is fueled by...

National Bestseller - USA Today Bestseller - Publishers Weekly Bestseller There is one human characteristic that separates those who see a world full of problems from those who see a world full of potential: hope. Hope is not in short supply; it is everywhere. Venture-philanthropy leader Jim...

Read by the authors and Will Damron. "A technically rich, warmly patriotic account.” - Kirkus Reviews One of Town & Country’s Best Books of the Fall On a hazy July night in 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren vanished over the waters off Martha’s...

“Exceptional…This is a much-needed reframing of what catalyzes civil strife.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review What can Americans learn about our divided country today from the Civil War that divided us in the past? Connor Williams’s The Confederacy Myth answers that question with a...

An illuminating portrait of five Black woman artists and the New York nightclub that helped inspire the civil rights movement. Before they were household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place was...