In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating...

Frank Smith, famed writer of murder mysteries, boards Southwest Airlines heading from Phoenix to Baltimore. His goal is his 50th class reunion at Scott Academy, but behind him he leaves the highly suspicious disappearance of his wife into apparent thin air four years ago and the relentless quest of Officer Ledezma whose impulse is that Smith has killed her and buried the body. But another mystery awaits Frank at Scott-a mystery 25 years old. A group...

Francesca di Paoli, an immigrant fallen on hard times, reaches what she hopes is a safe haven in Jackson Hole in June, 1925 . . . only to narrowly miss dying in the historic Gros Ventre landslide. Hired as a cook at the Snake River Dude Ranch, she and the rest of the valley inhabitants watch a new lake form along a dammed river. Poised above homes and ranches, will the three-hundred foot wall of debris hold back the waters? Over the next two years...

Frank Smith, famed mystery writer, flies to Baltimore for his 50th class reunion, and finds a 25-year-old, real life mystery waiting for him.

"With a keen visual sensibility, photographer Jay Ben Adlersberg captures the tiniest details and the most magnificent vistas that make Ireland one of the world's loveliest places to travel--or to call home. The rich color images collected in this volume weave together Paleolithic monuments, medieval castles, quiet fishing villages, and bustling cities into one incredible portrait. Here too, is a journey through Ireland's history, accompanied by its...