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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Author: David Starkey
The first of Henry VIII's wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produ...more
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Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friends
Author: Jerry Schilling with Chuck
On a lazy Sunday in 1954, 12-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch-football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a 19-year...more
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Nixon: A Life
Author: Jonathan Aitken
Nixon - loathed or admired, the name recalls one of the most extraordinary political survivors in American history. Author Jonathan Aitken interviewed the legen...more
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Takedown: The Fall of the Mafia Empire
Author: Rick Cowan and Douglas Cent
Seldom has the netherworld of the Mafia been revealed with such fascinating detail and sheer suspense. Like the classics of the genre - from The Godfather...more
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Kille
Author: James L. Swanson
The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history, the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, t...more
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Catch Me If You Can (Unabridged)
Author: Frank W. Abagnale
Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring conmen, forgers, imposters, and escape artists...more
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Mao: The Unknown Story (Unabridged)
Author: Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before, and with virtually everyone outside China...more
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Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial
Author: Mitchell Zuckoff
It was a time when anything seemed possible, instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury, and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, ...more
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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 2: The
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
The Annals, Part 2 picks up in the year A.D. 32 with the increasingly menacing and tyrannical behavior of Tiberius. With hundreds murdered or driven to s...more
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The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the F
Author: John Miller, Michael Stone,
In New York City, a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers, and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/1...more
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The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract
Author: Philip Carlo
Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in...more
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Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial
Author: Mitchell Zuckoff
It was a time when anything seemed possible, instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury, and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, ...more
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The Age of Sacred Terror
Author: Daniel Benjamin and Steven
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this project shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for c...more
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Hughes: The Definitive Biography of the First
Author: Richard Hack
"Howard Hughes would have hated this book...because he never wanted the truth to be told. As the man who knew Hughes best for 17 years and to whom he referre...more
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The Devil in the White City (Unabridged)
Author: Erik Larson
In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts as storyteller and researcher, Erik Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...more
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Defying Hitler: A Memoir (Unabridged)
Author: Sebastian Haffner
When the famous German author Sebastian Haffner died at the age of 91 in 1999, a manuscript was discovered among his unpublished papers. The book was begun in 1...more
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave
Author: Bryan Burrough
In Public Enemies, Bryan Burrough strips away a thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story of the most spectacular crim...more
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Empire of Blue Water (Unabridged)
Author: Stephan Talty
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. Empire of the Blue Water is the real story of th...more
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Elizabeth
Author: David Starkey
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as En...more
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The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold S
Author: James Reston, Jr.
The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on June 17, 1971, and ended when President...more
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