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Matterhorn
by Karl MarlantesA big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
by Laura Tyson Li“Madame Chiang Kai-Shek belongs with Eleanor Roosevelt and Eva Peron as three of the most politically influential women of the past century.” —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today…
The Lost German Slave Girl
by John Bailey“Bailey has the gifts of a novelist and a readiness to blend fact and conjecture . . . with the result that The Lost German Slave Girl reads like a…
The Last Stand of Fox Company
by Bob DruryFrom the best-selling authors of Halsey’s Typhoon (“Powerful and engrossing,” Mark Bowden), this is the true story of a Marine company’s heroic last stand during America’s “Forgotten War.”…
Killing Pablo
by Mark Bowden“The story of how U.S. Army Intelligence and Delta Force commandos helped Colombian police track down and kill Pablo Escobar. . . . A compelling, almost Shakespearean tale.” –Los Angeles…
Jasmine
by Bharati Mukherjee“A fable, a kind of impressionistic prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world today; Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded.” –The New York Times…
It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris
by Patricia Engel“Astonishing . . . A love story that just won’t quit.” —Edwidge Danticat…
Howard Hawks
by Todd McCarthy“Spectacular . . . McCarthy’s thick, rich biography . . . chronicles in vivid detail how perhaps the last great popular artist in the movies worked.” –Los Angeles Times Book…
The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad
by Roger Boylan“Boylan’s narrative resembles Joyce at his comically prolix best, with a similar appetite for vernacular nuance and pop allusion.” –The Village Voice…
Fobbit
by David Abrams“Fobbit is hilarious, but the subject matter is deadly serious. It is the rare writer–indeed, the rare person–who can step outside of himself and see with cold clarity the humor…
