Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict.

Crashing Through: a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see by Robert Kurson and Mike May

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Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and...

The 15-year-old autistic narrator uses his superbly logical and literal mind to investigate the murder of his neighbor's dog, using the skills he learned from his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, in this funny and poignant novel that won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year award.

 

Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. It all begins when his dad appears as a ghost at his own funeral and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club. Philip learns the truth about ghosts: the only people who end up as ghosts have been murdered.  But they can stop being ghosts if someone avenges their murder for them.  So begins Philip's quest to avenge his dad.   Those familiar with Shakespeare’s Hamlet will enjoy the many parallels hidden in this imaginative re-telling, as well as the ironic humor and pathos.

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century.  The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham; the murderer was Henry H. Holmes.  In this book the smoke, romance and mystery of the Gilded Age comes alive as never before. Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.