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November 2015

November's roundup of History titles includes THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE TRIPOLI PIRATES by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger, the little-known story of how a newly indepen­dent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America’s third president decided to stand up to intimidation; TO HELL AND BACK, acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw’s long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II; HUBRIS, in which Sir Alistair Horne revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait that links them all: hubris; and THE WASHINGTONS by Flora Fraser, a full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country --- and of the struggle for independence that he led.

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Kliph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy

In THE COMEDIANS, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on over 200 original interviews and extensive archival research, Nesteroff’s groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped and changed American culture over the past 100 years.

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Week of November 7, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of November 7th include 15th AFFAIR by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, a Women's Murder Club thriller that finds Detective Lindsay Boxer chasing an elusive, possibly very dangerous suspect --- her husband, Joe; THE RISE OF GERMANY, a masterful book by James Holland, who draws on his many years of research to reconsider the strategy, tactics, and economic, political and social aspects of the Second World War; and Kliph Nesteroff's THE COMEDIANS, a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped and changed American culture over the past 100 years.

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