November 29, 2010 | SuzyQ
Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer by James L. Swanson
Krakatoa : the day the world exploded, August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
Eiffel's tower and the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the artists quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a count by Jill Jonnes
The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson
Isaac's storm : a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history by Erik Larson
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
Triangle : the fire that changed America by David Von Drehle
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl by Timothy Egan
K blows top : a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist by Peter Carlson
More Great Titles!
Agent Zigzag : a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal by Ben MacIntyre
At home : a short history of private life by Bill Bryson
The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America by Timothy Egan
Blood and thunder [Large print] : an epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican war, and the conquest of the American continent by Robert Merry
Citizens of London : the Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest hour by Lynne Olson
A crack in the edge of the world : America and the great California earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Get Capone : the secret plot that captured America's most wanted gangster by Jonathan Eig
Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the international hunt for his assassin by Hampton Sides
Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent
The last stand : Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
1968 : the year that rocked the world by Mark Kurlansky
Nixonland : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester
1776 by David McCullough
War as they knew it : Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a time of unrest by Michael Rosenberg
Coming Soon!
Atlantic : the biography of an ocean by Simon Winchester
Bloody crimes : the chase for Jefferson Davis and the death pageant for Lincoln's corpse by James L. Swanson
Unbroken : a World War II airman's story of survival, resilience, and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand