The Last Year of the War (Meissner Susan)(Paperback)

As Bright as Heaven (Meissner Susan)(Paperback)

From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War comes a novel set during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, telling the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were

The Last Year of the War (Meissner Susan)(Paperback)

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa--aware

The Essence of an Hour (Furber Susan)(Paperback)

It's 1941, the last summer of American innocence, and eighteen-year-old Lillie Carrigan is desperate to love and be loved, to lose her virginity, to experience her life's great, epic romance. Preoccupied with whiskey and cigarettes, sex and Catholic guilt, Lillie unknowingly sets in motion events

A Bridge Across the Ocean (Meissner Susan)(Paperback)

Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women--past and present--in this emotional novel from the acclaimed author of As Bright as Heaven. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina

Last Battle - Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 (Hart Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The only history of the last months of World War One: out in paperback for the

Backlash - The Undeclared War Against Women (Faludi Susan)(Paperback / softback)

What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the rising pressure to halt, even worse, women's quest for that

Operation Morthor - The Death of Dag Hammarskjoeld and the Last Great Mystery of the Cold War (Somaiya Ravi)(Paperback / softback)

Last of the Outsiders: Volume 1: The Collected Poems, 1968-2019 (Grapes Jack)(Paperback)

Last of the Outsiders offers a sweeping view of prolific American poet Jack Grapes' fifty-year career. Presenting the core of Grapes' poetic work, the collection ranges from poems originally printed in 1968 to work written in 2019.The collection's title, Last of the Outsiders, reflects both

The Trojan War: A New History (Strauss Barry)(Paperback)

The Trojan War is one of history's most famous conflicts, a ten-year-long war waged over the beautiful Helen. For more than two thousand years this story has been a source of artistic inspiration. But is it true? In The Trojan War historian and classicist Barry Strauss explores the myth and the

Why the Politics of Breastfeeding Matter (Last Susan)(Paperback)

The Politics of Breastfeeding, first published in 1988, remains a hugely important book. It exposes infant feeding as one of the most important global public health issues of our time, and describes how big business and vested interests influence the intimate relationship between mothers and their

Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 1, 1 (Whedon Joss)(Paperback)

A new era of Firefly starts here, as the secret history of the Unification War is revealed at last From Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avengers) comes a new era of Firefly, as the definitive story of the Unification War is told at last Captain Malcolm Reynolds thought he could outrun his

Bloodwitch (Dennard Susan)(Paperback / softback)

The brilliantly imagined coming-of-age fantasy, The Witchlands series, continues. Here, war is sweeping the witchlands and tainted magic is destroying friends and enemies alike. And the Bloodwitch Aeduan is keeping one crucial secret

The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History (Parrish Susan Scott)(Paperback)

A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi flood The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half a million people across seven states. It was also the first environmental disaster to be

Nemoto's Travels: The Illustrated Saga of a Japanese Floatplane Pilot in the First Year of the Pacific War (Claringbould Michael)(Paperback)

Shadowplay - Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War (Marshall Tim)(Paperback / softback)

The last of the devastating series of conflicts resulting from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the Kosovo War saw more than 13,500 fatalities, with reports of atrocities, amid controversial intervention and bombing by NATO. Twenty years have passed since the war’s end on 11 June

Last Post (Campion Keith)(Paperback / softback)

The Last Post is a story of love, hope and legacy set at Christmas during World War I. The story shows the increasingly poignant correspondence between a father in the trenches, and son back

The Prisoner in the Castle: A Maggie Hope Mystery (MacNeal Susan Elia)(Paperback)

A series of baffling murders among a group of imprisoned agents threatens the outcome of World War II in this chilling mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Churchill's Secretary. November, 1942. World War II is raging, and former spy Maggie Hope knows too much: what the British

The Cambridge History of Communism (Frst Juliane)(Paperback)

Volume Three of The Cambridge History of Communism charts the global Cold War in its last two decades, the collapse of Soviet socialism, the resurgence of China as a global power, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War

Berkshire Airfields in the Second World War (Brooks Robin J.)(Paperback / softback)

Robin Brook's action-packed book describes the military airfields of Berkshire during the last war, including Greenham Common, Membury, Welford, and White Waltham - headquarters of the legendary Air Transport

Iran-Iraq War: The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988 (Tucker-Jones Anthony)(Paperback)

The bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war is now almost forgotten, overshadowed by the subsequent Gulf War and Iraq War. However, it is best remembered for the unique so-called 'Tanker War' which threatened to strangle the world's oil supplies. At the time Tucker-Jones as a defence analyst wrote

How to Trade in Stocks (Livermore Jesse)(Paperback)

Written by Livermore in 1940, the last year of the author's life, this title distills the wisdom of his 40 years as a trader. It combines autobiographical and historical details through the Livermore trading system. It helps investors to learn his prescriptions for analyzing leading sectors,

The Notebook (Saramago Jose)(Paperback)

Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jos Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and meditates on his favorite authors

Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and Prophetic War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity (Gilbert Derek P.)(Paperback)

Last Voyage of the Valentina (Montefiore Santa)(Paperback / softback)

A tale of war-time intrigue and absorbing romance from the Sunday Times bestselling