War is hell on the homefront too. So sang a talented country music star about the Second World War decades after its conclusion. This was perhaps nowhere truer than in the events recounted in this book.Historians attest that World War Two was the biggest event in all of human history. Most of it was fought in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. But at some point, every continent save Antarctica saw some form of combat. Though protected by two large oceans, North America was ...

It has been more than a quarter of a century since the world first became enamored with dinosaurs as a result of genetically re-engineered animals brought to life in the mind of a gifted and trailblazing author. Much has happened in the rapidly expanding real world of biotechnology in the meantime. For this reason, it was now not only plausible, but inevitable, that the events described in this book would unfold.Welcome to PastTime, a drive-through preserve comprising 100 square mi...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II" ( The Boston Globe)." The Good War" is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter's apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting i...

• Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction• Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2011 Hilary Weston Writer's Trust Award.During Charlotte Gill’s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest...

When Stella Suberman wrote her first memoir, The Jew Store, at the age of seventy-six, she was widely praised for shedding light on a forgotten piece of American history--Jewish life in the rural South. In her new memoir, Suberman reveals yet another overlooked aspect of America's past--the domestic side of war.Her story begins in the Miami Beach she grew up in, when hotel signs boasted "Always a View, Never a Jew" and where a passenger ship lingered just off shore carrying hundreds...

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world—from invisible ...

" Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it."—J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar"[Connors's] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading."—Walter Kirn, author of Up in the AirPhillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a mo...

From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life.Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them for a lifetime, overcoming distance and misunderstandings. He writes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had a ...

Hilarious and heartwarming stories of outdoor mishaps and misadventures fromThe New York Times five-time bestselling, beloved humorist, Patrick F. McManus, "a writer who makes people laugh out loud, hard." (The New York Times)McManus's first story collection, gathering twenty-seven witty, cautionary tales about camping, fishing, backpackers, and b...

"A flight of the historical imagination that will leave readers dazzled " -- Thomas Fleming"Solid research buttresses Poyer's latest, a consistently engrossing WWII novel featuring FDR and skinny naval officer John Fitzgerald Kennedy. " - Publisher's Weekly"A consistently readable, fast-paced, intelligent tour of the elite politics of the U.S. as World War II drew to a close." - BooklistIt is the apocalyptic spring of 1945. Navy Reserve li...

A page-turning memoir about a young woman's grueling, revelatory summers working alone in a remote lookout tower and her eyewitness account of the increasingly unpredictable nature of wildfire in the Canadian north.While growing up in Peace River, Alberta, Trina Moyles heard many stories of Lookout Observers--strange, eccentric types who spent five-month summers alone, climbing 100-foot high towers and watching for signs of fire in the surrounding boreal forest. Ho...

"[A] charming memoir of renowned western novelist Kelton's early years in the saddle, at the desk and in the trench . . . a pleasure through and through." — Kirkus ReviewsVoted the "Best Western writer of all time" by his peers, Elmer Kelton wrote fifty novels that form a testament and tribute to the American West.But who is that Texas gentleman with the white Stetson and rimless eyeglasses whose friendly face appears on so many book jackets?