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The Secret Purposes: A Novel
Published: 2005-06-28
Hardcover: 416 pages
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Having fled life in pre-World War II East Prussia for the safety of Cambridge, Isaac and Lulu Fabian find themselves placed in an internment camp by the British government along with thousands of fellow Jewish Germans, where they endure suspicion, prejudice, and other hardships. 25,000 first printing....
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Published: 2018-11-13
Hardcover: 384 pages
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In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move t...
Mountain Rescue Doctor
Published: 2008-10-28
Paperback: 312 pages
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Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak to ...
Search and Rescue: A Wilderness Doctor's Life-and-Death Tales of Risk and Reward
Published: 2017-09-01
Paperback: 248 pages
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Search and Rescue: A Wilderness Doctor’s Life-and-Death Tales of Risk and Reward is a thrilling collection of first-hand accounts of search and rescue operations from Oregon’s legendary Mount Hood and other exotic locations around the world, by wilderness physician Dr. Christopher Van ...
Being Mortal
Published: 2015
Paperback: 0 pages
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For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal....
Followed by Frost
Published: 2015-09-22
Paperback: 254 pages
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“Charlie is a vibrant writer with an excellent voice and great world building.” —Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and The Way of Kings Seventeen-year-old Smitha's wealth, status, and beauty make her the envy of her town—until she rejects a strange man’s marriage proposal and...
Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Mystery Series) (Volume 1)
Published: 2014-06-24
Paperback: 318 pages
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“What a thoroughly charming book! A beautiful combination of entertaining characters, minute historical research, and a powerful evocation of time and place.” —NYT bestselling author Barbara Hambly Boston, 1868: The dawn of the Gilded Age, an era of burgeoning commerce and inventio...
The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Published: 2015-05-26
Paperback: 448 pages
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From the bestselling author of Gates of Fire and Killing Rommel, the thrilling true story of one of the most unlikely and astonishing military victories in history. June 5, 1967. Israel is surrounded by enemies who want nothing less than her utter extinction. The Soviet-equipped Egyptian A...
White
Published: 2019-04-16
Hardcover: 272 pages
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Own it, snowflakes: you've lost everything you claim to hold dear.White is Bret Easton Ellis's first work of nonfiction. Already the bad boy of American literature, from Less Than Zero to American Psycho, Ellis has also earned the wrath of right-thinking people everywhere with hi...
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics)
Published: 2009-08-25
Paperback: 208 pages
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A masterly new translation of one of the first great modernist novels In the only novel by one of the German language's greatest poets, a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death...
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