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The Dark Lake (Gemma Woodstock)

by Sarah Bailey

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Rosalind's secrets didn't die with her.The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrut...

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A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)

by Michael Bronski

Published: 2012-05-15

Paperback: 312 pages

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Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories,...

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A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Detectives Series)

by Chester Himes

Published: 2011-07-20

Kindle Edition: 151 pages

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A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.  For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man...

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Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave & Creative Life

by Joy Mangano

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 304 pages

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“It was an honor to play Joy on the big screen—she’s such a fearless woman, an incredible business force and an inspiration to everyone she meets.” —Jennifer Lawrence From Joy Mangano, self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, inventor of the Miracle Mop and inspiration behind the ac...

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Ruby Among Us (La Rosaleda Series #1)

by Tina Ann Forkner

Published: 2008-05-20

Paperback: 336 pages

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Lucy DiCamillo is safely surrounded by her books, music, and art–but none of these reclusive comforts or even the protective efforts of her grandmother, Kitty, can shield her thoughts from the mother she can barely recall. Lucy senses her grandmother holds the key, but Kitty seems as eag...

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About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

by Colonel David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman

Published: 1990-04-15

Paperback: 875 pages

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Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism.From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and...

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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

by Robert Coram

Published: 2004-05-10

Paperback: 504 pages

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John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the man who, in simulated air-to-air combat, defeated every challenger in less than forty seconds. Some recall him as the father of our country's most legendary...

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The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security

by Grant T. Hammond

Published: 2004-08

Paperback: 248 pages

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The ideas of US Air Force Colonel John Boyd have transformed American military policy and practice. A first-rate fighter pilot and a self-taught scholar, he wrote the first manual on jet aerial combat; spearheaded the design of both of the Air Force's premier fighters, the F-15 and the F-1...

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The Japanese Art of War: Understanding the Culture of Strategy (Shambhala Classics)

by Thomas Cleary

Published: 2005-05-10

Paperback: 144 pages

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Military rule and the martial tradition of the samurai dominated Japanese culture for more than eight hundred years. According to Thomas Cleary—translator of more than thirty-five classics of Asian philosophy—the Japanese people have been so steeped in the way of the warrior that some of the manners...

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Hazardous Duty

by David H. Hackworth

Published: 1997-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller About Face, Colonel David H. Hackworth is one of America's most decorated soldiers, having served at the end of World War II, and in Korea and Vietnam. Retired from the military since 1971, he has completed second tour of battlefield d...