Previously published: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1965. First published in 1817 under title: An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce.

If you’ve found yourself almost inconsolable after your pet died, please know that you’re normal.If you’ve found that your family and friends don’t seem to understand the level of your grief, please know that, too, is normal.Without comparing our relationships with our pets to those with people, we know that, because of the unique emotional relationships we have with our pets, their deaths produce a level of pain that is difficult to describe.If you relate to any or...

For the first quarter of the twentieth century the names Enos Mills and Estes Park were virtually synonymous. Mills’ base of operations was his rustic mountain inn at the foot of Longs Peak, where he wrote some sixteen books and scores of magazine and newspaper articles familiarizing the nation with the scenic wonders and animal life of the Rocky Mountain West. Rocky Mountain National Park owes its existence to the tenacity and vision of Enos Mills. The straightforward stories Mills told o...

A lost letter. A beachfront Christmas. And the love she never expected to find again.Joy Eaton hasn' t decorated a Christmas tree since her husband died. This year, a lost letter— Peter' s forgotten anniversary gift— sends her and her young son, Samuel, back to the beachfront hotel where she and Peter once honeymooned, hoping distance might quiet the ache that home cannot.Instead, a mix-up lands them in a penthouse suite beside Mark Swanson, the hotel' s owne...

She's determined to bring a murderer to justice. Can a whip-smart woman solve a crime nobody else believes happened?England, 1953. After her first success, Miss Riddell has caught the mystery bug. Excited to demonstrate that she's a talented up-and-coming detective, she eagerly agrees to help an elderly lady pry into strange occurrences. But when the aspiring amateur sleuth arrives to discuss the particulars, she's alarmed to discover her client dead.Refusi...

A remarkable new account of Australia's colonial beginningsThis fascinating book sets aside the clichés of Australian history and asks us to look again.What really happened when exiled criminals made a home in an occupied and defended country? How were they changed by this new world? What can the first years of settlement tell us about Australia today?The First Fleet left Britain at the height of the enclosure movement, when traditional rights to communal land wer...

From the New York Times best-selling historian, a portrait of one of America’s most storied military leaders.As general of the Union army and president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant faced problems as grave and demanding as any in the life of the nation: civil war, an ultimately thwarted project of Reconstruction, the early years of the sordid Gilded Age, and the battle for African American rights and freedom. But in life and in death, the general’...

In his follow-up to Uruk: A Novel of the First City , James Zwerneman continues his stunning, action-packed historical adventure series set in ancient Mesopotamia.Jakka has taken his army and Ki , the genius who helped establish Uruk, north to a rich copper mining village to reestablish Magog's empire. He starts building a fort, mining copper, recruiting warriors, growing fields of Ki's wheat, and extracting tribute from ...

How the cult of capitalism reshaped the American university—and hollowed it out from within.Over the past several decades, American universities have been remade as engines of entrepreneurial ambition. Technology transfer offices, business incubators, pitch competitions, innovation hubs, and leadership centers now sit at the heart of campus life, radically altering how institutions describe their purpose, structure curricula, and imagine student success. The St...

In the second and third centuries, Christian martyr narratives were written to evoke spectacle. In Dying in Style, James Petitfils demonstrates how these accounts transform scenes of suffering into displays that assert the dignity and ethical distinction of Christians during a time of widespread belittlement and persecution.Attending to physicality, clothing, gestures, and facial expressions, Petitfils reads early Christian martyrdom accounts as performative literature cra...

The dead are rising. The systems are failing. And somewhere in the darkness, someone is still listening.Caleb Mercer is an overnight emergency dispatcher accustomed to answering people on the worst nights of their lives. Naomi Reyes rebuilds damaged buildings for a living and knows when something cannot be repaired. Neither is prepared for the night the dead begin getting back up.As Madison, Wisconsin collapses around them, hospitals become death traps, eme...

In his follow-up to Uruk: A Novel of the First City**, James Zwerneman continues his stunning, action-packed historical adventure series set in ancient Mesopotamia.**Jakka has taken his army and Ki, the genius who helped establish Uruk, north to a rich copper mining village to reestablish Magog's empire. He starts building a fort, mining copper, recruiting warriors, growing fields of Ki's wheat, and extracting tribute from vassal villages....