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September 2014

September’s roundup of History titles includes THE ROOSEVELTS: An Intimate History, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns’s companion volume to the seven-part PBS documentary series, which presents an intimate history of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and features a whopping 796 photographs (some of which have never been seen before); Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s KILLING PATTON, which takes readers inside the final year of World War II and recounts the events surrounding General George S. Patton’s tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced; DEATH OF A KING, Tavis Smiley and David Ritz’s revealing and dramatic chronicle of the 12 months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination; and SUCH TROOPS AS THESE, in which acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander offers a fresh analysis of Stonewall Jackson’s military genius and reveals how the Civil War might have ended differently if Jackson’s strategies had been adopted.

Bill O'Reilly, author of Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost 70 years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident --- and may very well have been an act of assassination. KILLING PATTON takes readers inside the final year of the war and recounts the events surrounding Patton’s tragic demise, naming names of the many powerful individuals who wanted him silenced.

Week of September 24, 2018

Paperback releases for the week of September 24th include GRANT, Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow's sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant; ENDURANCE, a stunning, personal memoir from astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station; A DEATH IN LIVE OAK by James Grippando, in which defense attorney Jack Swyteck defends a white college student charged in Florida’s first racial terror lynching in more than a half century; and JERUSALEM, an epic novel from Alan Moore, who channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the hardscrabble streets and alleys of his hometown of Northampton, UK.